HOME ABOUT SCHOOL INFORMATION DEPARTMENTS STUDENTS PARENTS CAREERS MILLFIELD MESSENGER VACANCIES CONTACT US History Teaching staff and responsibilities Head of History: Miss G. Higgins Teacher of History: Mr T. Yeoman Teacher of History: Miss C. Gower Teacher of Humanities: Miss E. Covill Facilities The department is keen to use modern technology to ensure students receive the best quality of teaching of learning as possible. History rooms are equipped with a whiteboard, projector and speaker system to ensure audio and visual resources have a positive impact on student progress. ICT rooms are booked as appropriate to support pupil learning. The department also has a set of tablets to encourage independent learning within the classroom. Number of lessons taught per week In Years 7, 8 and 9 pupils have three lessons of History a fortnight. GCSE pupils attend five History lessons a fortnight. Brief overview of the KS3 curriculum During KS3, pupils are introduced to the skills they will need to become good Historians: skills that are transferable to other subjects. We develop explanation skills focusing on significance, causation, and change. We learn different source skills: usefulness, accuracy, and reliability. We also develop interpretation skills focusing on the Historians’ background, audience and title of the piece studied During KS3, pupils will investigate various topics. Year 7 focus on the Medieval Period: the Silk Roads, the Norman Conquest, the Crusades and the Black Death. Year 8 focus on the Tudor and Stuart period. We cover topics like the significance of the Tudors, change throughout the 17th century and a local study on the development of Blackpool in the 18th and 19th centuries. Year 9 study pre-colonial Africa, the origins of the British Empire, the impact of WW1 on both Russia and England and the road to WW2. Brief overview of the KS4 curriculum GCSE History currently involves the following topics; Germany 1919-1947. Elizabethan England America 1929-2000 Crime and Punishment 50AD to present day. A study of Botany Bay in Australia is currently included in the Crime and Punishment syllabus. Learning Journey History Resources for students Copyright © 2019 Millfield - Designed & Developed by