Head of Department:

Mr S Bamber

Teachers:

Mr A Booysen, Dr M Craig, Mrs C Ellinor, Mr R Thomas, Miss S Tilly, Mrs E Warriner

Years 7 to 9

Course outlines, indicating the topics covered and forms of marking/assessment, are available below for each year group.

Year 7

Year 8

Year 9

GCSE

Students studying GCSE History follow the Edexcel A course – specification available here

Leaflet introducing GCSE History at St Ivo.

Course outline

Student planner

International Relations - revision podcasts

Teheran Conference February 1945	Yalta Conference February 1945
Potsdam Conference July 1945	Why had a Cold War developed by 1949?
Hungary Uprising 1956 causes events & results	1943 - 1956
1957 - 1969	1970 - 1979
1979 - 1985	1985 - 1991
Question 1	Question 2
Question 3	Question 4
Question 5	Question 6

Britain 1931-51 - revision podcasts

Depression 1931 - 1939	Britain at War 1939 - 1945
Churchill as a war leader 1940 - 1945	Home Front 1939 - 1945
Labour 1945 - 1951	Question 1 answer tips
Question 2 answer tips	Question 3 answer tips
Question 4 answer tips	Question 5 answer tips

Russia - revision podcasts

Tsar problems by 1914	World War I and Tsar
February 1917 Revolution Tsar	October 1917 Revolution Bolsheviks
Bolsheviks in power 1917 - 1918	Civil War 1918 - 1921
War Communism, Kronstadt, NEP	Bolshevik social changes 1917 - 1924
Power struggle Trotsky v Stalin	Stalin purges
Stalin propaganda, censorship, education	Stalin 1936 constitution
Stalin industry	Stalin farming
Stalin ethnic, nationalities, religion - life in Soviet Union	Stalin living and working - life in Soviet Union
Women	Question 1a source inference
Question 1b key features	Question 1c effects
Question 1d explain why / causes	Questions 2a & 2b change
Questions 3a & 3b box causes

AS and A2 Level

Students studying AS and A2 Level History follow the OCR course.

Exam specification

Course outline