Key Stage 3
Want to continue your travels through time? Then grab your passport and start your adventure. Your challenge is to set off on 10 journeys through history. Each time you complete a journey you need to note it down in your passport. Tell us what you did, and then something about your trip. It can be a fact you learnt or something you enjoyed. If you complete 10 historical experiences then your teacher will reward you with a prize.
Here are some of the things that you could do to earn your stamps:
- Read a historical book (visit the school library for a wide selection)
- Watch a historical film (ask your teacher for recommendations if stuck)
- Watch a documentary
- Visit a historical site (museums, castles, palaces, monuments, churches and more)
- Attend a lecture or listen to a podcast or speech
- Build a model connected to a historical artefact or event
- Speak to someone who has experienced a big event in history
- Bake a recipe from the past (rationing cook books are filled with ideas)
- Take part in a re-enactment or watch from the side lines
- Take part in a hobby popular in the past (loom weaving)
To download your passport – please click here
Key Stage 4
Want to achieve the best grade possible at GCSE? Here are a few simple ideas to do on top of the revision guide activities for your three exams. Revision guides will be issued to students throughout the year.
Edexcel:
Paper 1: Option 10: Crime and punishment in Britain , c1000-present and Whitechapel , c1870-1900: crime policing and the inner city
Paper 2: Option 27: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 and Early Elizabeth England 1558-88
Paper 3: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918-39
- Create a mind map of your topics
- Make a timeline of the events in each unit
- Make flashcards of people and events and test yourself regularly
- Read through your notes and summarise them
- Read books about your exam topics
- Watch BBC class clips about each unit
- Complete a FRAG sheet (available from your teachers)
- Complete a practice paper (available from your teachers)
- Redraft past exam questions from class
