HISTORY

Have you have wondered why Henry VIII had six wives or why the French Revolution happened, or whether the holocaust could happen again? In the space of just three years in KS3, we cover the main highlights of British, European and world history from 1066 to 1991.

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The history curriculum at Leigh Academy Tonbridge holds at its centre the belief that “The more you know about the past, the better prepared you are for the future.” (Theodore Roosevelt). Our curriculum allows pupils to analyse the past and evaluate some of the key events, people and changes that occured, in order to draw their own conclusions about these topics and apply the lessons learnt from them into their own lives and the world around them.

Modules 1-2: The Norman Conquest
Modules 3-4: Medieval Life
Module 5: The Tudors
Module 6: The Stuarts and the Civil War

Modules 1-2: The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars
Module 3: Black History
Modules 4: Black History and the Long 19th Century
Module 5: The Long 19th Century
Module 6: Women’s History

Module 1: WW1
Module 2: WW1 and the Interwar Years
Module 3: The Interwar Years and WW2
Module 4:WW2 and the Holocaust
Module 5: The Holocaust
Module 6: The Cold War

Modules 1-3: Medicine in Britain 1250-Present
Modules 4: Surgery on the Western Front
Modules 5 & 6: Henry VIII and his Ministers 1509-1540

Modules 1 & 2: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1919-1939
Modules 3-5:Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-1991
Module 6: Revision and GCSE Exams

Modules 1-6: Britain 1625-1701: conflict, revolution and settlement and Russia in Revolution 1894-1924

Modules 1-6:Germany 1871-1990: united, divided, reunited and Coursework

History does not repeat itself, except in the minds of those who do not know history.
Kahil Gibran