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History at St. Catherine’s
- ‘Fellow citizens – we cannot escape History’ – Abraham Lincoln
- History is who we are and why we are the way we are ~David McCullough
- History is herstory, too. ~ Author Unknown
Photos from the Quiz competition yr 10 History students entered at the City hall last March
 
Just a few of the many great reasons to study History ! At St. Catherine’s the History department aims to inspire the students with an enthusiasm for learning about the past by studying a wide range of topics , using a variety of resources and teaching methods, visiting the History of several cultures and challenging students to debate controversial issues thrown out by the past. Students are taught to analyse change, cause, consequence and significance of events. They are also trained in the skills of using evidence at first hand.
In year 7 students study history as part of the Creative Curriculum which aims to boost independent learning whilst investigating these cross curricular themes : Freedom, Identity, Culture, Origins and My World.
In the years 8 and 9 units include studies of Medieval England, the |Islamic world from 600AD to the time of the Crusades, Tudor and Stuart Britain, Ireland from c1500 to 1900, the Slave Trade and Civil rights in the USA, the French Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust and the Cold War.
At GCSE units cover Germany from 1918 to 1945, Prohibition and gangsters in the USA in the 1920s, the Vietnam War and crime punishment and protest from c1450 to the present day.
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