Introduction

History is one of the most popular subjects at A Level. Taking pupils from across the ability range, we aim for you to achieve your target grade and more.  If you can manage the skills of source analysis and argument-based written work at GCSE, then you can manage the extension of the same skills at A Level.

We offer a number of interesting topics, all relevant to the modern world in which we live, and accessed via a wide range of media; and as the photo shows, we like to travel abroad.

Why study History?

A good number of our students go on to study History-related courses at University. However it is also a subject with transferable skills - i.e. it has very general applications. Whatever your thoughts are for a future career, from Medic to Lawyer and all points in between, you will be called upon at some point to be able to argue a case in writing and to sort out the relevant and reliable from the irrelevant and untrustworthy. History gives you the skills to do this.

The A Level Specification (OCR).

AS

Germany 1933  - 1963.

A document paper that looks at the twelve years of Hitler and the Third Reich, the post World War Two division of Germany into West and East, the development of the Cold War and the building of the Berlin Wall.

50% of AS - 25% of A Level

British History 1945  - 1994.

It doesn't get more modern than this! An essay paper that looks at the alternating Conservative and Labour governments of the 1950s and 1960s and the question of why Britain went into decline during this period. This culminates in the study of Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism.

Both modules are examined in the summer of the L6th year.

50% of AS - 25% of A Level

A2

Britain and Ireland 1792  - 1921.

An essay paper that requires the students to take a broad-based look over a long period of History. Topics include the potato famine, British rule and Irish opposition from Wolfe Tone to the Easter rising of 1916.

This module is examined in the summer of the U6th year.

50% of A2 - 25% of A Level

Russian Revolutions 1894  - 1924.

This is the Coursework module. It comprises a source-based piece of work on the background to the Russian revolution of 1917; and an extended essay on the nature of Lenin's Communist rule.

Coursework is internally marked.

50% of A2 - 25% of A Level

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