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Devonport High School for Girls

Name of Head of Department

Miss L Matthews, BA (Hons) QTS

Statement of Intent 

History at DHSG will provide students with a comprehensive understanding of purposefully selected historical events, cause and consequence, and resonance to the modern day in line with the National Curriculum.  

The diversity of the content also acknowledges the narrative of marginalised groups, which challenges and provokes curiosity to be developed through debate. This is delivered in harness with the development of core history and historiographical skills centering on analysis, evaluation, interpretation, and significance.  

We interleave the curriculum across the three key stages to provide students with a sound understanding of the world in which they live, carefully developed transferable skills which are monitored and delivered with intent by subject experts.    

Curriculum Programmes of Study 

Year

Cycle Content

Year 7

Cycle 1

Mediaeval Britain

Cycle 2

Tudor/Elizabethan Britain

Cycle 3

Stuart Britain

Year 8 

 

Cycle 1

Victorian Britain

Cycle 2

Empire and Enslavement

Cycle 3

Modern World History

Year 9

Cycle 1

Mediaeval Medicine
Renaissance Medicine

Cycle 2

Enlightenment Medicine
Modern Medicine

Cycle 3

Medicine on the Western Front

Life and Government in England

Year 10 

Cycle 1

America 1920-73 – Divided Society
Americans’ experience of the Depression and the New Deal

Cycle 2

Post War America

Cycle 3

Peace-Making

Year 11

Cycle 1

The Origins and Outbreak of the Second World War
The League of Nations and International Peace

Cycle 2

The League of Nations and International Peace
The Origins and Outbreak of the Second World War

Cycle 3

The Norman Church and Monasticism
Revision and Exams

Lower Years Assessment Framework
 

To view the Lower Years Assessment Framework for History, please click here

Middle Years Exam and Specification Information 

Students will follow the AQA GCSE course. The examination takes the form of two papers.   AQA have designed a course that provides students with a breadth and depth of understanding of History.

Full details of the specification and assessment criteria can be found on the AQA website  GCSE History Specification

Extra-curricular activities 

Year 7 students spend a day at Buckfast Abbey Devon, exploring a number of cross-curricular themes.