History

Try to imagine a world in which nobody has a memory which goes back more than 10 minutes – life would be very confusing! Our memories help us in explaining our behaviour. History is really a collection of memories and experiences of our society and mankind. The study of History is making sense of these memories and experiences at a local, national and international level so that we can come to sensible decisions in the present.

Aim

Here at Thistley Hough we firmly believe that history can be fun (yes, fun!) and that we also need to develop good study skills and history skills which will be useful for all pupils in their time at school and later life.

Key Stage 3

We follow the National Curriculum guidelines and as such students will follow a course which includes aspects of local, national, European and world history:

Key stage 4

At the end of Year 9 pupils can opt to do History at GCSE. We study modular history with Edexcel, the course includes: