History

History Teaching Staff

• Mrs M Read: Curriculum Leader Humanities
• Mrs S Sinaguglia
• Mr P Robinson

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Key Stage 4

Students in year 11 are completing the Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History specification.

Students in year 10 at Oak Academy follow the AQA 8145 GCSE History specification, which can be found here: https://www.aqa.org.uk/subjects/history/gcse/history-8145

The qualification is linear, meaning that students will sit all their exams at the end of the course. Students will take assessments in both of the following papers in the same series:

Paper 1: Understanding the modern world

Section A: Period study AB Germany, 1890-1945: Democracy and dictatorship

Section B: BA Conflict and tension: The First World War, 1894-1918

Assessment: written exam 2 hours 84 marks (including 4 marks for spelling, punctuation and grammar) 50% of GCSE

Paper 2: Shaping the nation

Section A: Thematic study AC Britain: Migration, empires and the people: c790 to the present day

Section B: British depth study including the historic environment BC Elizabethan England, c1568-1603

Assessment: written exam 2 hours 84 marks (including 4 marks for spelling, punctuation, and grammar) 50% of GCSE