History

Curriculum Intent

•The Trinity History curriculum helps to explain the world as it is by exploring the world as it was, in an in intriguing and ambitious way, utilising historical scholarship. Enquiries explore global, continental, or local scales, emphasising the complexity of the past and the constructed, contested nature of History. Pupils develop their disciplinary thinking by exploring the past from multiple perspectives and viewpoints.  We strive to make our curriculum representative of the past’s inhabitants, aiming to understand the broadest possible picture and the details that illuminate it.  These threads are combined and sequenced to produce a rich, broad, inclusive, and structured understanding of the past for every pupil.

•Most importantly our curriculum aims to produce ‘citizen historians’ by helping change how our young people understand themselves, the world around them and their place within it.

•Increasing students’ historical knowledge, curiosity, critical thinking, and communication skills are all key functions of our curriculum. Increased knowledge of the past helps inform the identity of our students, our curriculum will provide them with the confidence to build strong arguments of their own and the flexibility to incorporate new perspectives into their thinking.  The History curriculum will help pupils question and influence the people and communities around them.

•Our history curriculum exists within the wider Trinity curriculum to ensure that all pupils know ‘the best that has been thought and said in the world’ to help all our students clamber into the discourses and practices of educated people so that they gain the powers of the powerful.  ‘It is important to study history if you want to be an intelligent citizen in a democracy.’

Enrichment

We offer the following trips:-

•KS4/5- Berlin

•KS3/4- Krakow

•KS3- York

•KS3/4- 1st World War Battlefields

•Imperial Tour of Leamington

•National Holocaust Centre

•Tower of London

We work closely with the following higher education institutions.

•University College London

•University of Warwick

•University of Southampton

•National Archives

•University of Oxford

Current Projects

•The History Department at Trinity and our students regularly take part in historical projects with higher education institutions and local community groups:-

•The Department has  contributed a chapter for the 'Global Leamington' recent publication.

•As a result of the commitment the department has shown to the teaching of  the Holocaust. Trinity has been awarded Quality Mark Status for Holocaust Education. 

• Students and staff are currently working on a range of projects with UCL.

•Students are currently taking part in the research project Holocaust, their family, me and us.  Trinity students are working with international experts, historians, TV and film crews and Robert Rinder and his mother to research their family's story.

•Students have been involved the 'Their Finest Hour' project with the University of Oxford to create a National Archive.

•Students are currently contributing to chapters for a number of books based on National and Regional themes.

•Students are involved in making a film as part of the International Homeland Research project.

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