Welcome to the History Department











In the History Department we aim to encourage and further pupils' fascination with the past. We use a variety of resources and activities to explore the broad areas of the curriculum, including: school trips, drama activities, source analysis and other creative tasks.
Curriculum
All classes are mixed ability classes, there is no setting.
Years 7 - 8
The history department broadly follows the National Curriculum. We start by looking at Medieval England from 1066 and cover the major social, political and religious developments of the next six centuries. Among the topics covered are the Norman Conquest, the Black Death, the Civil War and a study of Tudor religion.
Year 9
In Year 9 we look at the major developments in British history between 1750-1900 before examining the First and Second World Wars. There is also a special series of lessons on the Holocaust.
GCSE
The focus in Years 10 and 11 is on twentieth century world history. In Year 10, we look at international relations between the wars, including the Versailles Treaty, The League of Nations, appeasement and Nazi Germany and special modules on the Cold War. There are also two depth studies: one on Nazi Germany and the other on Britain 1906 - 1918. A further coursework option on interwar American society is covered in Year 11.
2007/08 Events
AS/A2
Three modules are covered in both years 12 & 13, one of which is a coursework option. In Year 12, we study World War I, Nazi politics and society and British foreign policy 1939 - 1964.

In Year 13, the focus is again on modern history as we study Chamberlain and the Policy of appeasement and Civil Rights in the USA 1863-1980.
The Mount School Join Community in Remembering the Holocaust
On 28th January 2009, year 9 and the students studying History in for GCSE in year 10 went to the Finchley Reform Synagogue in remembrance for the Holocaust. As we arrived at the synagogue, we were greeted by the friendly staff who showed us to our seats.

A lady practising to be a Rabbi told us about what was in store for us that day, and started with showing us a very cleverly made video of this years theme ‘Stand Up To Hatred’. The video showed us real life stories of people who had been a target of hatred.

Next was a very special guest – Eva Oppenheimer, who was a survivor of the Holocaust. She spoke about her life from when she was born right up to when the war was over and she was living peacefully. This talk was very interesting and enlightened us all on the suffering that just one Jewish person went through; let alone 6 million others too.

Our last activity of the day was to ‘create’ someone who would have died in the Holocaust. We chose every detail; name, family etc, and kept these details in a jam jar for us to keep.

Overall the trip was a great privilege and a once in a lifetime experience that I’m sure none of us will forget.
Sofie Cocoyannis 10H
 
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