Department: History

Head of Department: Miss H Short

If you wish to learn more about the curriculum, please contact the Head of Department by email: h.short@oaklandscatholicschool.org

Impact

At the end of the  History Education  curriculum, we hope that students will leave Oaklands enriched in the following manner

• Have a love and passion for history
• Use the opportunity to learn about the past in a way that helps them to make sense of the world around them today.
• They will be a more informed and mature learner by, for example learning how power is obtained and lost, how technology changes the human experience or why different interpretations of a person or event exist.
• Have the knowledge and understanding of key facts, dates, events and the people that make up ‘History’, in addition will have developed skills that can be applied to the students’ wider learning, regardless of whether they wish to continue to study History at a higher level.
• Be well equipped to challenge interpretations, communicate their ideas using developed and complex language and to develop a real interest in the topics of study.
• Be more critical of the way that information is disseminated in modern society by understanding the importance of provenance: why is it being produced, what is the intended audience, who is the author?
• Develop a higher standard of literacy through the challenge of ‘reading the past’.

In addition to this, the success of our curriculum can be found in the examination outcomes and the number of students who go on to study History related subjects at University.