The Lowry Academy intends to provide students with a high-quality History education that will enable students to understand Little Hulton, Walkden, Salford and Manchester’s place within Britain and the wider world by exploring a range of time periods, people and places from the past. We have designed the curriculum to allow our students to develop a coherent, chronological understanding of Britain’s place in the world. We also want our students to become aware of how significant individuals and events have shaped both the local area and the wider world, and how both Salford and Britain have been influenced by the wider world, to create the more cosmopolitan, diverse society we see today.
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The aim of Year 7 is to build up students understanding of religion, authority and power and the relationship between the monarchy and people, all of which are built on in Year 8.
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In Year 8, we look at the changing nature of religion in the Reformation, and the religious turmoil that followed, before looking at the changing relationship between King and Parliament as a result of the English Civil War.
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Year 9 aims to allow students to know how the modern world has been shaped, through a study of both world wars, the fight for women's suffrage, and also the increase in diversity in Britain post-WW2.
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In Year 10, students follow the Edexcel GCSE specification. We begin looking at Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, before looking at Medicine Through Time 1250-present. We have selected these topics to be taught in chronological order to allow our students to make sense of the way the world has progressed throughout time.
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In Year 11, students follow the Edexcel GCSE specification. We begin looking at Weimar and Nazi Germany, before looking at Superpower Relations and the Cold War 1941-91. We have selected these topics to be taught in chronological order to allow our students to make sense of the way the world has progressed throughout time.
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Alicia Shanks, Subject Leader Humanities & UL Subject Advisor alicia.shanks@lowryacademy.org.uk
Daniel Hargreaves, Head of Humanities and Teacher of History daniel.hargreaves@lowryacademy.org.uk
Nick Fox, Teacher of History and PSHE co-ordinator nicholas.fox@lowryacademy.org.uk
John Thursfield, Teacher of History john.thursfield@lowryacademy.org.uk
Module settings have been updated.