Units

Summary of Assessment

Time

Weighting

External Examination – Paper 1

Thematic Study and historic environment – Medicine in Britain, c1250-present and The British Sector of the Western Front, 1914-18: injuries, treatment and the trenches

30%

(52 Marks)

1 hour 15 minutes

30%

External Examination –  Paper 2

Period study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 and British depth study: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060-88

40%

(64 Marks)

1 hour 45 minutes

40%

External Examination –  Paper 3

Modern Depth Study: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39

30%

(52 Marks)

1 hour 20 minutes

30%

Term

Paper

Specification Content

Half Term 1

Paper 1: Medicine Through Time

Key Concepts/skills– Medicine Through Time:

• Understand key features and characteristics
• Explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second order historical concepts e.g. change and continuity, similarity and difference, turning points (significance), extent of, and causes or consequences of change.
• Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements, in the context of historical events studied

Knowledge (Students will be trained in exam technique and literacy alongside knowledge development):

Key Topic 1: c1250–c1500: Medicine in medieval England

• Supernatural and religious explanations of the cause of disease. 
• Rational explanations: the Theory of the Four Humours and the miasma theory; the continuing influence in England of Hippocrates and Galen.
• Approaches to prevention and treatment and their connection with ideas about disease and illness: religious actions, bloodletting and purging, purifying the air, and the use of remedies.
• New and traditional approaches to hospital care in the thirteenth century. The role of the physician, apothecary and barber surgeon in treatment and care provided within the community and in hospitals, c1250–1500
• Dealing with the Black Death, 1348–49; approaches to treatment and attempts to prevent its spread.

Key Topic 2: c1500–c1700: The Medical Renaissance in England

• Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. A scientific approach, including the work of Thomas Sydenham in improving diagnosis. The influence of the printing press and the work of the Royal Society on the transmission of ideas
• Continuity in approaches to prevention, treatment and care in the community and in hospitals.
• Change in care and treatment; improvements in medical training and the influence in England of the work of Vesalius.
• Key individual: William Harvey and the discovery of the circulation of the blood.
• Dealing with the Great Plague in London (1665): approaches to treatment and attempts to prevent its spread.

Key Topic 3: c 1700–c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain

Continuity and change in explanations of the cause of disease and illness. The influence in Britain of Pasteur’s Germ Theory and Koch’s work on microbes

Half Term 2

Paper 1: Medicine Through Time

Key Topic 3: Continued

• The extent of change in care and treatment: improvements in hospital care and the influence of Nightingale. The impact of anaesthetics and antiseptics on surgery.
• New approaches to prevention: the development and use of vaccinations and the Public Health Act (1875).
• Key individual: Jenner and the development of vaccination. ? Fighting Cholera in London (1854); attempts to prevent its spread; the significance of Snow and the Broad Street pump.

Key Topic 4: c1900–present: Medicine in modern Britain

• Advances in understanding the causes of illness and disease: the influence of genetic and lifestyle factors on health.
• Improvements in diagnosis: the impact of the availability of blood tests, scans and monitors
• The extent of change in care and treatment. The impact of the NHS and science and technology: improved access to care; advances in medicines, including magic bullets and antibiotics; high-tech medical and surgical treatment in hospitals.
• New approaches to prevention: mass vaccinations and government lifestyle campaigns.
• Key individuals: Fleming, Florey and Chain’s development of penicillin.
•  The fight against lung cancer in the twenty-first century: the use of science and technology in diagnosis and treatment; government action.

Half Term 3

Paper 1: Medicine Through Time

The Historic Environment: The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18: injuries, treatment and the trenches.

Skills progression on use of sources:

• Knowledge of national sources relevant to the period and issue, e.g. army records, national newspapers, government reports, medical articles.
• Knowledge of local sources relevant to the period and issue, e.g. personal accounts, photographs, hospital records, army statistics.
• Recognition of the strengths and weaknesses of different types of source for specific enquiries.
• Framing of questions relevant to the pursuit of a specific enquiry.
• Selection of appropriate sources for specific investigations.

Knowledge:

• The context of the British sector of Western Front and the theatre of war
• The trench system
• The use of mines at Hill 60 near Ypres and the expansion of tunnels, caves and quarries at Arras.
• Significance for medical treatment of the nature of the terrain and problems of the transport and communications infrastructure.
• Conditions requiring medical treatment on the Western Front, including the problems of ill health arising from the trench environment.
• The nature of wounds from rifles and explosives.
• The problem of shrapnel, wound infection and increased numbers of head injuries. The effects of gas attacks.
• The work of the RAMC and FANY.
• The system of transport: stretcher bearers, horse and motor ambulances. The stages of treatment areas: aid post and field ambulance, dressing station, casualty clearing station, base hospital.
• The underground hospital at Arras.
• The significance of the Western Front for experiments in surgery and medicine: new techniques in the treatment of wounds and infection, the Thomas splint, the use of mobile x-ray units, the creation of a blood bank for the Battle of Cambrai.
• The historical context of medicine in the early twentieth century: the understanding of infection and moves towards aseptic surgery; the development of x-rays; blood transfusions and developments in the storage of blood.

End of Unit assessment – Exam Practice

Half Term 4

Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany 19198-39

Key Concepts/skills for Paper 3 Section A – Germany 1918-39:

• Understand key features and characteristics
• Explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second order historical concepts e.g. change and continuity, similarity and difference, turning points (significance), extent of, and causes or consequences of change.
• Analyse, evaluate and use sources (contemporary to the period) to make substantiated judgements, in the context of historical events studied
• Analyse, evaluate and make substantiated judgements about interpretations (including how and why interpretations may differ) in the context of historical events studied

Students will be trained in exam technique and literacy alongside knowledge development.

Knowledge:

Key topic 1: The Weimar Republic 1918–29:

• The legacy of the First World War. The abdication of the Kaiser, the armistice and revolution, 1918–19.
• The setting up of the Weimar Republic. The strengths and weaknesses of the new Constitution.
• Reasons for the early unpopularity of the Republic, including the ‘stab in the back’ theory and the key terms of the Treaty of Versailles.
• Challenges to the Republic from Left and Right: Spartacists, Freikorps, the Kapp Putsch.
• The challenges of 1923: hyperinflation; the reasons for, and effects of, the French occupation of the Ruhr.
• Reasons for economic recovery, including the work of Stresemann, the Rentenmark, the Dawes and Young Plans and American loans and investment.
• The impact on domestic policies of Stresemann’s achievements abroad: the Locarno Pact, joining the League of Nations and the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
• Exam Literacy
• Changes in the standard of living, including wages, housing, unemployment insurance.
• Changes in the position of women in work, politics and leisure.
• Cultural changes: developments in architecture, art and the cinema

Key Topic 2: Hitler’s rise to power, 1919–33

• Hitler’s early career: joining the German Workers’ Party and setting up the Nazi Party, 1919–20.
• The early growth and features of the Party. The Twenty-Five Point Programme. The role of the SA.
• The reasons for, events and consequences of the Munich Putsch.
• Reasons for limited support for the Nazi Party, 1924–28. Party reorganisation and Mein Kampf. The Bamberg Conference of 1926.
• The growth of unemployment – its causes and impact. The failure of successive Weimar governments to deal with unemployment from 1929 to January 1933. The growth of support for the Communist Party.
• Reasons for the growth in support for the Nazi Party, including the appeal of Hitler and the Nazis, the effects of propaganda and the work of the SA.
• Political developments in 1932. The roles of Hindenburg, Brüning, von Papen and von Schleicher.
• The part played by Hindenburg and von Papen in Hitler becoming Chancellor in 1933.

Key topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933–39

• The Reichstag Fire. The Enabling Act and the banning of other parties and trade unions.
• The threat from Röhm and the SA, the Night of the Long Knives and the death of von Hindenburg. Hitler becomes Führer, the army and oath of allegiance.

Half Term 5

Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39

Topic 3 continued:

• The role of the Gestapo, the SS, the SD and concentration camps.
• Nazi control of the legal system, judges and law courts.
• Nazi policies towards the Catholic and Protestant Churches, including the Reich Church and the Concordat
• Goebbels and the Ministry of Propaganda: censorship, Nazi use of media, rallies and sport, including the Berlin Olympics (1936).
• Nazi control of culture and the arts, including art, architecture, literature and film.
• The extent of support for the Nazi regime.
• Opposition from the Churches, including the role of Pastor Niemöller.
• Opposition from the young, including the Swing Youth and the Edelweiss Pirates.

Half Term 5

Paper 1: Medicine Through Time

Revision of all of Medicine and exam literacy

Revision homework – Medicine revision booklet to be completed.

Half Term 6

Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39

Key topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

• Nazi views on women and the family.
• Nazi policies towards women, including marriage and family, employment and appearance.
• Nazi aims and policies towards the young. The Hitler Youth and the League of German Maidens.
• Nazi control of the young through education, including the curriculum and teachers.
• Nazi policies to reduce unemployment, including labour service, autobahns, rearmament and invisible unemployment.
• Changes in the standard of living, especially of German workers. The Labour Front, Strength Through Joy, Beauty of Labour
• Nazi racial beliefs and policies and the treatment of minorities: Slavs, ‘gypsies’, homosexuals and those with disabilities.
• The persecution of the Jews, including the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses (1933), the Nuremberg Laws and Kristallnacht.

End of Unit assessment – Exam Practice – 2021 done as exam technique training rather than a formal assessment

Term

Paper

Specification Content

Half Term 1

Paper 2: Period study (Cold War) and British depth study (Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

Option B1: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88:

Key Concepts/skills for Paper 2 Option B1:

·         Understand key features and characteristics

·         Explain and analyse historical events and periods studied using second order historical concepts e.g. change and continuity, similarity and difference, turning points (significance), extent of, and causes or consequences of change.

Students will be trained in exam technique and literacy alongside knowledge development.

Knowledge:

Key topic 1: Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest, 1060–66

·         Monarchy and government. The power of the English monarchy. Earldoms, local government and the legal system.

·          The economy and social system. Towns and villages. The influence of the Church.

·         The house of Godwin. Harold Godwinson’s succession as Earl of Wessex. The power of the Godwins.

·         Harold Godwinson’s embassy to Normandy. The rising against Tostig and his exile. The death of Edward the Confessor.

·         The motives and claims of William of Normandy, Harald Hardrada and Edgar.

·         The Witan and the coronation and reign of Harold Godwinson.

·         Reasons for, and significance of, the outcome of the battles of Gate Fulford and Stamford Bridge.

·         The Battle of Hastings. Reasons for William’s victory, including the leadership skills of Harold and William, Norman and English troops and tactics.

Key topic 2: William I in power: securing the kingdom, 1066–87:

·         The submission of the earls, 1066.

·         Rewarding followers and establishing control on the borderlands through the use of earls. The Marcher earldoms.

·         Reasons for the building of castles; their key features and importance.

·         The revolt of Earls Edwin and Morcar in 1068.

·         Edgar the Aethling and the rebellions in the North (1069).

·         Hereward the Wake and rebellion at Ely (1070–71).

·         The reasons for and features of Harrying of the North (1069–70). Its immediate and long-term impact, 1069–87.

·         Changes in landownership from Anglo-Saxon to Norman, 1066–87.

·         How William I maintained royal power.

·         Reasons for and features of the revolt.  The defeat of the revolt and its effects.

Half Term 2

Revision

3-4 weeks of revision  of Germany for the Year 11 Mock Exam

Option B1: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88:

Revision of Topic 1 and Topic 2 so far.

Half Term 3

Paper 2: Period study (Cold War) and British depth study (Anglo-Saxon and Norman England

Option B1: Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, c1060–88:

Key topic 3: Norman England, 1066–88:

• The feudal hierarchy. The role and importance of tenants-in-chief and knights. The nature of feudalism (landholding, homage, knight service, labour service); forfeiture.
• The Church in England: its role in society and relationship to government, including the roles of Stigand and Lanfranc. The Normanisation and reform of the Church in the reign of William I.
• The extent of change to Anglo-Saxon society and economy.
• Changes to government after the Conquest. Centralised power and the limited use of earls under William I. The role of regents.
• The office of sheriff and the demesne. Introduction and significance of the ‘forest’.
• Domesday Book and its significance for Norman government and finance.
• The culture and language of the Norman aristocracy.
• The career and significance of Bishop Odo.
• Character and personality of William I and his relations with Robert. Robert and revolt in Normandy (1077–80).
• William’s death and the disputed succession. William Rufus and the defeat of Robert and Odo.

End of Unit assessment – Exam Practice

Half Term 3

Revise all content/ skills/ exam technique

Starting with Medicine Through Time and more time on the Western Front as this was covered in Lockdown (we revised it in the summer)

Half Term 4

Revise all content/ skills/ exam technique

Half Term 5

Revise all content/ skills/ exam technique