The Humanities curriculum at Wallingford School aims to:
- Enable students to find their place in the world and make informed decisions about the future by considering the past
- Develop students’ skills in literacy, numeracy, problem solving, verbal communication as well building tolerance and empathy
- Encourage students to reach the highest possible standards through in-depth studies and academic rigour
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KS3 History
Year 7
Term 1 - History Skills - Romans
Term 2 - 1066 and the Battle of Hastings
Term 3 - Castles
Term 4 - Middle Ages - Peasant Life - Black Death
Term 5 - The Power of the Church
Term 6 - Plains Indians
Year 8
Term 1 - Why did Henry VIII break with Rome?
Term 2 - Elizabeth Tudor
Term 3 - Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
Term 4 - The English Civil War
Term 5 - Industrial Revolution
Term 6 - Empire and Slavery
Year 9
Term 1 - What is empire? - World War I
Term 2 - Treaty of Versailles
Term 3 - Dictators
Term 4 - The Holocaust
Term 5 - Women's History
Term 6 - Micro topics: The Race Issue / Cold War / Rwanda
GCSE History
Year 10
Term 1 & 2 - Nazi Germany 1918-1929
Term 3 - Medicine Through Time - Medieval and Renaissance
Term 4 - Medicine Through Time - Industrial
Term 5 - Modern Medicine
Term 6 - Historic Environment, Medicine in WWI
Year 11
Term 1 - Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588
Term 2 - Early Elizabethan England 1558-1588 - Nazi Germany Revision
Term 3 & 4- Medicine through Time - Industrial - Modern - Historic Environment
Term 5 - Revision
Term 6 - Exams
A Level History
Year 12
Term 1 - Russia / Britain / Charles I, Civil War
Term 2 - Russia / Interregnum, Charles II
Term 3 - Russia / Charles II, Societal changes, Scientific Revolution, James II
Term 4 - Russia / Glorious Revolution
Term 5 - Impact of Glorious Revolution
Term 6 - American Development / Witchcraft Background
Year 13
Term 1 - USA / European and British Witch Craze
Term 2 - USA / Interpretations, research and note-making
Term 3 - USA / Coursework
Term 4 - USA
Term 5 - Revision
Term 6 - Exams
