History

Assessment

History is split into three units; two examined and one coursework. UNIT 1 - RUSSIA 1855 - 1964 2hr 30min exam - 40% A Level This unit will examine the dramatic change that Russia underwent from the era of the Tsars to the removal of Kruscher in 1964. In Year 12 students will consider how Russian Tsars tried to preserve the system of autocracy before the First World War and how the burdens of the war led to the collapse of Tsarism and the execution of Nicholas II in 1917. In Year 13 students will study the emergence of the communist dictatorship under Lenin and its consolidation by the increasingly brutal and paranoid Joseph Stalin. The course concludes with an examination of the post Stalin era and the rule of Nikita Khrushchev . UNIT 2 - BRITAIN 1951 - 2007 2hr 30min exam - 40% A Level This unit examines the key political, economic and social and international changes that shaped Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. In Year 12 students will consider how Britain emerged from the effects of WWII and the impact of the Attleean consensus. They will study the era of Macmillan, the Golden Years of the 1950s and increasing social change in the 1960s. The last module in Year 12 will assess the pressures faced by the post war consensus and why it collapsed in the late 1970s. In Year 13 students will examine the impact of the Thatcher Revolution from 1979 and how the following two decades of Conservative government changed Britain. They will then study why this era came to an end and how Tony Blair replaced Conservative dominance with new Labour. Students will also consider Britain’s place in the world and how society has undergone enormous change in the last 50 years. UNIT 3 - COURSE WORK Marked internally - 20% A Level Students will begin this towards the end of Year 12. The topic studied is Westward Expansion in the USA from 1803-1900. Assessment is in the form of an extended piece of writing of between 3000 and 5000 words based on a question from the taught course.