History

National Qualifications in History provide a broad range of flexible learning contexts covering Scottish, British and European and world history in medieval, early modern and modern time frames. The Courses develop a breadth and depth of knowledge and understanding of the past, and provide opportunities to consider how political, social, economic and cultural history relates to the world of today.

Staff

  • Miss L Mark

  • Mr Turnbull


Curriculum

Broad General Education (S1-3)

These topics will be studied over the course of the early years:

· What is History? Investigating primary and secondary sources

· Early People in Scotland: Celts, Romans and Vikings

· The Making of the “Kingdom of Scotland”

· Medieval Scotland: Castles , Knights and Heraldry

· The Scottish Wars of Independence

· Aspects of the twentieth century : Industrialisation and inventions

· The Titanic

· The First World War: Causes and consequences. Depth study on trench warfare on the Western Front.

· Votes for Women

Senior Phase (S4-6)

National 4/5 in S4

· British topic: The Atlantic Slave Trade 1770-1807

· Scottish topic: Migration and Empire 1830-1939

· European and World topic: Hitler and Nazi Germany 1919-1939

National 4/5 in S5/6

· British topic: The Making of Modern Britain

· Scottish topic: Scotland and the Era of the Great War 1914-1928

· European and World topic: Free at Last? Civil Rights in the USA 1918-1968

Higher

· British topic: Britain 1851-1951

· Scottish topic: Scotland and the Impact of the Great War 1914-1928

· European and World topic: Russia 1881-1921

Advanced Higher

· Historical Study: Germany : Versailles to the Outbreak of the Second World War

· Historical Research Dissertation

Homework

Pupils can expect the regularity of homework to increase with progression through the school with S1-2 having to complete an historical tourist brochure and historical newspaper front page in addition to smaller pieces of research. S3-4 pupils can expect to have homework once a week on historical skills and/or investigative research. S5-6 pupils can expect regular weekly homework including the submission of essays and skills questions based on past exam questions.