History

How did William seize control?

Term 1 – Unit 1

1. Claimants to the throne
2. Battle of Stamford Bridge
3. Battle of Hastings
4. Why did William win?

How was Britain controlled?

Term 1 – Unit 2

1. Why did William build castles?
2. How did Concentric Castles overcome siege warfare?
3. How did the Feudal System work?
4. What was the Doomsday Book?
5. Why was the Magna Carta so important?
6. What role did the Church play in ruling England?

Science and Medicine in Medieval British Society

Term 2 – Unit 1

1. What impact did Greek and Roman ideas have on Medieval medicine?
2. What impact did Christianity have on Medieval medicine?
3. How was surgery developed during Medieval times?
4. How healthy were people living in Medieval times?
5. Why did the Black Death devastate England?

War in Medieval Society

Term 2 – Unit 2

1. How were Medieval wars fought?
2. Why were the Crusades launched?
3. Were the Crusades a success?
4. How did Edward I successfully takeover Wales?
5. Why did the Scots rise up against Edward Longshanks?
6. How accurate a portrayal is Braveheart?
7. What was the Hundred Years War?
8. How did warfare affect Medieval Society?  

Tudors

Term 3 – Unit 1

1. Why was there a war of the Roses?
2. How did Richard III become King?
3. What happened to the Princes in the Tower?
4. How did Henry VII win the Battle of Bosworth?
5. Was Henry VII a good king?
6. What was Henry, the Renaissance Prince, like?
7. Was the Field of the Cloth of Gold important?
8. How did the son of a Butcher become the 2nd most powerful man in England?
9. How did Henry change England forever? (1st)
10. How did Henry change England forever? (2nd)
11. Who was Thomas Cromwell?
12. Why was there the dissolution of the monasteries?
13. How dangerous to Henry was the Pilgrimage of Grace?
14. How did England get on with its neighbours of Ireland and Scotland?
15. How good a King was Henry VIII?

English Civil War

Witches

1. Why was there a witch hunting craze in the 17th century? Look at stereotypical versions of witches and draw comparisons with reality in 17th century.
2. Why were witches hunted?
3. Why were Witches accused? Use St Osyth as study Toto conduct a trial of Ursula Kemp.

Jack the Ripper

1. How fit are you for the Police force?
2. What happened to Polly Nichols and Annie Chapman?
3. What happened to Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes?
4. What happened to Mary Kelly and what can we learn from the witnesses?
5. Who was Jack the Ripper?

World War 1

1. What was life like in the trenches?
2. Why did men join up?
3. What was the trench experience like?
4. What illness, disease and injury occurred in the trenches?
5. Was Haig the Butcher of the Somme?
6. How did women help on the front line?
7. What technologies were used in WWI?
8. What impact did technology have on soldiers?
9. What was it like to go over the top?
10. What was the impact of new medicine on the Western Front?
11. What happened during the Christmas truce?

What impact did WWII have on soldiers and civilians?

1. What should happen to Germany?
2. To what extent was Hitler a threat?
3. What caused World War II?
4. What happened at Dunkirk?
5. Was the Battle of Britain a turning point?
6. What was it like to be evacuated?
7. How were people sheltered?
8. What was the Blitz spirit?

1. What is terrorism?
2. Why did the IRA wage war on the UK?
3. What was Bloody Sunday?
   
4. Why did Israel and Palestine become enemies?
   
5. What happened at the Munich Olympics in 1972?
   
6. Was Nelson Mandela a terrorist?
   
7. Why did Osama Bin Laden cause 9/11?
   
8. Why did the coalition invade Iraq in 2003?
   
9. Why did the coalition invade Afghanistan in 2006?
   
10. What is Al Qaeda, The Taliban, Boko Haram and ISIS?

Paper 1 Edexcel

Medicine in Britain c1250–present

and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries,

treatment and the trenches

Written examination: 1 hour and 15 minutes

30%* of the qualification

• Medicine in Medieval England, Dealing with the Black Death, 1348–49

• The Medical Renaissance in England, Dealing with the Great Plague in London, 1665 and key individuals

• Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain, Jenner and the development of vaccination

• c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain. The impact of the NHS and science and technology

• The British sector of the Western Front, 1914– 18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

Paper 2 Edexcel

Written examination: 1 hour and 45 minutes

40%* of the qualification

64 marks (32 for the period study and 32 for the British depth study)

• Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060–66
• William I in power: securing the kingdom, 1066–87
• Norman England, 1066–88

• The early settlement of the West, c1835–c1862
• Development of the plains, c1862–c1876
• Conflicts and conquest, c1876–c1895

Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes

30%* of the qualification

52 marks

• Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39
• The Weimar Republic 1918–29
• Hitler’s rise to power, 1919–33
• Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39
• Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

Unit 1 OCR

The Early Stuarts and the Origins of the Civil War 1603–1660

(Enquiry topic: The Execution of Charles I and the Interregnum 1646–1660)

British period study

1 hour 30 minutes paper

50% of total AS

25% of total  A level

• James I and Parliament
• James I and religion
• Charles I 1625–1640
• Charles I and the victory of Parliament 1640–1646
• The Restoration of Charles II

Unit 2 OCR

The Cold War in Europe 1941–1995

Non-British period study

50 marks 1 hour 30 minutes paper

50% of total AS

15% of total A level

• The origins of the Cold War to 1945
• The development of the Cold War 1946–1955
• The Cold War 1956–1984
• The end of the Cold War 1984–1995

Unit 3

OCR Russia and its Rulers 1855–1964

Thematic study and historical interpretations

80 marks 2 hour 30 minute paper

40% of total  A level

• The nature of government
• The impact of dictatorial regimes on the economy and society of the Russian Empire and the USSR
• Impact of war and revolution on the development of the Russian Empire and the USSR
• Russia: Empire, nationalities and satellite states

Unit 4

OCR Nazi Germany 1933-45

Topic-based essay

Learners will complete a 3000–4000-word essay on a topic of their choice, which may arise out of content studied elsewhere in the course. This is an internally assessed unit group

• The maintenance of power by the Nazis 1933-1945

• Women and the Volksgemeinschaft
• Hitler and the Holocaust

3000–4000 word essay

20%  of total  A level