The aims and objectives of the AQA GCE Advanced History are to enable students to: • Study the nature of causes and consequences, of change and continuity, and of similarities and differences over a long period. • Study the links between perspectives, such as political, economic, social, or religious as well as appreciating developments relating to the perspectives separately over time. • Study roles played by individuals, groups, ideas, or ideology. Students are encouraged to understand and think intelligently about aspects of History. It involves much more than just learning vast amounts of factual information. Of course, there is a lot to learn and students will immediately notice how much greater detail a topic is covered than at GCSE. However, what most students find most rewarding in History is the attempt to understand, evaluate, and analyze the past. Questions at the AS/A level will never just ask students to simply recount what happened. They are designed to make you think critically about the material and formulate your judgment. Learners will have several skills relevant to many types of employment, such as the ability to seek information and analyze it to identify facts and motives and to present information clearly for others to understand. The skills you will obtain through studying history will be useful in several careers such as: • Museum Curator • Heritage Director • Teaching • Gallery Manager • Record Offices and Archives Manager • Journalism
5 or more GCSE grades 9-5 (GCSE or BTEC equivalent) including grade 5+ in Maths and English and a grade 7 or higher in History.
Theme one: Stuart Britain Absolutism Challenged Britain 1603-1649 • The Political Nation and basis of power • James I and Charles I: character and views on the monarchy, court, and favorites • Financial weaknesses of the crown and attempts to reform royal finance • Religion and religious divisions: Catholics, Puritans and Arminianism • Relations and disputes with parliaments • The state of relations between the Crown and Parliament by 1629 • Political divisions and challenges to Personal Rule in England, Scotland, and Ireland • First and Second Civil Wars • Social divisions after the civil wars • Regicide and the King’s response Theme two (A-level only) Monarchy restored and restrained: Britain 1949-1702 • Consolidation of the Republic in Scotland and campaign in Ireland • Political divisions and experiments • Cromwell and his aims • Charles II and the restored monarchy • Political developments and conflicts • Divisions in the Political Nation and the emergence of Whigs and Tories and their impact • Britain and its monarchy by 1702 Theme three: The Russian Revolution and the Rise of Stalin 1917-1929 • Dissent and Revolution, 1917 • The Bolshevik consolidation 1918- 1924 • Stalin’s rise to power, 1924 – 1929 Theme four (A-level only) Stalin’s Rule 1929-1953 • Economy and Society, 1929-1941 • Stalinism, politics, and control 1929-1941 • The great Patriotic war 1941,1953
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| Region | South East |
| Local Authority | Milton Keynes |
| Ofsted Rating | Requires improvement |
| Gender Type | Co-Educational |
| Address | Fulwoods Drive, Milton Keynes, MK6 5LA |
The aims and objectives of the AQA GCE Advanced History are to enable students to: • Study the nature of causes and consequences, of change and continuity, and of similarities and differences over a long period. • Study the links between perspectives, such as political, economic, social, or religious as well as appreciating developments relating to the perspectives separately over time. • Study roles played by individuals, groups, ideas, or ideology. Students are encouraged to understand and think intelligently about aspects of History. It involves much more than just learning vast amounts of factual information. Of course, there is a lot to learn and students will immediately notice how much greater detail a topic is covered than at GCSE. However, what most students find most rewarding in History is the attempt to understand, evaluate, and analyze the past. Questions at the AS/A level will never just ask students to simply recount what happened. They are designed to make you think critically about the material and formulate your judgment. Learners will have several skills relevant to many types of employment, such as the ability to seek information and analyze it to identify facts and motives and to present information clearly for others to understand. The skills you will obtain through studying history will be useful in several careers such as: • Museum Curator • Heritage Director • Teaching • Gallery Manager • Record Offices and Archives Manager • Journalism
5 or more GCSE grades 9-5 (GCSE or BTEC equivalent) including grade 5+ in Maths and English and a grade 7 or higher in History.
Theme one: Stuart Britain Absolutism Challenged Britain 1603-1649 • The Political Nation and basis of power • James I and Charles I: character and views on the monarchy, court, and favorites • Financial weaknesses of the crown and attempts to reform royal finance • Religion and religious divisions: Catholics, Puritans and Arminianism • Relations and disputes with parliaments • The state of relations between the Crown and Parliament by 1629 • Political divisions and challenges to Personal Rule in England, Scotland, and Ireland • First and Second Civil Wars • Social divisions after the civil wars • Regicide and the King’s response Theme two (A-level only) Monarchy restored and restrained: Britain 1949-1702 • Consolidation of the Republic in Scotland and campaign in Ireland • Political divisions and experiments • Cromwell and his aims • Charles II and the restored monarchy • Political developments and conflicts • Divisions in the Political Nation and the emergence of Whigs and Tories and their impact • Britain and its monarchy by 1702 Theme three: The Russian Revolution and the Rise of Stalin 1917-1929 • Dissent and Revolution, 1917 • The Bolshevik consolidation 1918- 1924 • Stalin’s rise to power, 1924 – 1929 Theme four (A-level only) Stalin’s Rule 1929-1953 • Economy and Society, 1929-1941 • Stalinism, politics, and control 1929-1941 • The great Patriotic war 1941,1953