Head of Department - Miss A. Ridehalgh

Teachers
Mrs. C. Bowyer
Mrs. S. Morgan
Miss M. Bond
Mr. C. McCall

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How are you going to change the world if you have not already looked at how it has got in the state it is today?

History is not just about studying the past; it is about making a better future. At Don Valley we like to make History come alive. To keep lessons stimulating as well as letting pupils produce individual pieces of work, we use:

• Costume
• Role play
• Visit museums
• Handle artefacts
• Hold political conferences
• ICT facilities
• Pupil group work
• Debates

History is a popular choice at both GCSE and A-Level.

What do we Study?

Year 7

Historical Skills - This is a practical module to introduce those new to secondary school to essential skills needed to study History.

Britain 1066-1500 - This includes topics like:

• The Norman Conquest
• Life in Medieval Britain

Year 8

Britain 1500-1750 - This includes a study of:

• The Tudors
• The Alternative Gunpowder Plot
• Witches
• The English Civil War
• The French Revolution - causes, events and consequences

Britain 1750-1900 - This includes a study of:

• The Industrial Revolution
• Victorian Britain

Year 9

Britain 1900 to present - This includes a study of:

• The Titanic
• The First World War - causes and events
• America 1920-1970 - including Prohibition, Black Civil Rights, the Assignation of JFK
• Protests in the 20th and 21st Century
• The rise of Hitler
• Life in Nazi Germany
• The Second World War
• The Holocaust

Year 10 (GCSE)

• The American West
• Coursework - Conisbrough Castle

Year 11 (GCSE)

• Medicine through time
• Coursework - Conflict in Northern Ireland

Years 12 and 13 (A-Level)

In Year 12 we study:

• Nazi Germany
• The Russian Revolution
• Britain 1899-1922

In Year 13 pupils undertake

• A piece of independent coursework on a topic of their choice
• Study Lenin's role in the Russian Revolution
• Study Britain from the Poor Law to the welfare state.

We like to get out and about and currently visit the following:

• Leeds Armouries
• The Imperial War Museum North
• The Galleries of Justice
• Conisbrough Castle
• The Thackery Medical Museum

In addition, we run the following activities throughout the year

• Year 7 Aztec Event
• Year 8 - Victorian Day
• Year 9 - Conference on current world issues (like the War in Iraq), Holocaust Memorial Events