History
History is a valued part of the curriculum at Clare Mount School. It is a tool to help improve the pupils literacy and numeracy skills but its role is much more than this. It stimulates the child's innate curiosity about the past as it provides a means of exploring, appreciating and understanding the world in which we live and how it has evolved by asking where? when? what? and why?
Year 7
Autumn Term - "What do I know about History?"
· Using maps, photos and the census to find out about the history of Moreton
· What did the invaders do for us? (Romans/Anglo Saxons and Vikings)
Spring Term - “1066 and all that!”
· Castles attack and defence!
· Visit to Chirk castle
· Medieval life and times (with all the gory bits!)
Summer Term - “Church and King”
· Magna Carta
· Black Death
· The Peasants are revolting!
· Life outside England
Year 8
Autumn Term
- The body in the car park!
- The Tudors-wives and children
- Portraits in History
- The Spanish Armada
Spring Term
- What makes a good king?
- The civil war
- Life without a king – Cromwell/daily life
- Return of the Kings – cross curricular music and drama
Summer Term
- Local History unit –the growth of Birkenhead
- Public health
- Liverpool and the slave trade
- Migration/immigration
What do the portraits tell us?
Year 9
Autumn Term
- Life before the war
- Why did the war take place?
- Life in the trenches
- Weapons of war
- Using the documents - researching the soldiers of the 1st World War
Spring Term
- The role of women in the war
- Commonwealth soldiers
- Votes for women
- Versailles and the Peace Treaty
- A home for heroes?
Summer Term
- Lead up to the 2nd World War
- The Holocaust
- The Blitz
- History in my life time
Key Stage 4
Year 10 are studying OCR Entry Level
Autumn Term
- Mrs Brewer's group are studying the Plains Indians and the Wild West
- Mrs Perry's group are studying the Elizabethans
The current Year 11 are studying AQA Entry Level.
- The Plains Indians
- A local study unit -Birkenhead Priory
- Race and Youth in Hitler's Germany
- Working conditions in the mines and factories