Header Image 1

KS4 - History

Choose a subject

Board 

AQA 

Outline of the Course 

  • The course studies four areas of history and provides both a detailed knowledge and understanding of world history, as well as advanced analytical skills.    

  • Students will learn in a variety of different ways that are based around investigating key historical events, ideas and individuals. Students will be expected to investigate and evaluate the importance of each area studied.  

  • Students will be expected to form short and long written answers based on both their knowledge of events and the source material that has been produced about those events.  

  • Students will be expected to read around the key areas that they study and will be asked to explain their research in their lessons. 

  • Each paper has a range of question types, from source questions to knowledge and evaluation.  

Assessment 

 

Type of Assessment 
Duration 
Weighting 
Paper 1: Understanding the Modern World 
America: Expansion and Consolidation 1840-1895 
Conflict and Tension 1918-1939 
2 hours 
50% 
Paper 2: Shaping the Nation 
Health and the People: Medicine in Society 1000-Present 
Elizabethan England c. 1568-1603 
2 hours 
50% 

GCSE-Programme-of-Courses-Booklet.pdf GCSE-Resources-Booklet.pdf