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BackThe Excelsior History curriculum aims to nurture a love of History and grow cultural capital through the development of key knowledge and skills. It does so by providing pupils with a coherent understanding of Britain's past and its relationship with the wider world, fostering critical thinking and analytical skills.
It emphasises both chronological narrative and thematic study, exploring concepts like continuity and change, cause and consequence, and historical significance. The curriculum also encourages pupils to analyse historical evidence, understand different perspectives, and develop their own structured accounts of the past.
Subject leader: Emma.Brown@excelsiornewcastle.org.uk
Key Stage 2
Key Stage 3 and 4
Aims of our Key Stage 3 curriculum
KS3 builds on KS2 and follows a chronological move through History including the Battles of 1066 and Norman Conquest through to what it is like to be a Medieval Peasant. Then the change to Britain under the Tudors, Stuarts and Industrial Revolution, finishing with a look at how the twentieth century shaped the world they live in. This includes WW1 and WW2 and what it was like to live in Nazi Germany and through the Holocaust, then post WW2 Cold War and the creation of the welfare state in Britain.
Within the Sow at KS3 there are thematic studies of health, migration, and religion and power. Comparisons to key developments in History, while also making discrete links between key developments and pupils’ modern life.
Aims of Key Stage 4 curriculum
KS4 aims to provide pupils with a deeper understanding of British, local, and world history. It seeks to develop pupils' ability to analyse historical events, understand concepts like continuity and change, and construct their own historical arguments. Furthermore, the curriculum aims to foster pupils' appreciation for the diversity of societies and the complexity of human lives across different time periods and geographical locations. At Excelsior we take a journey through medicine to highlight crucial developments that have led to the NHS and antibiotics. We then deep-dive into the twentieth century with studies of Nazi Germany and the Cold War. We complete KS4 with a look at Anglo-Saxon and Norman England which explains how England began and how Newcastle got its name.