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

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