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Humanities Department Making History

This year has seen each of the Years from 7 to Year
9 engaged in ‘making history’. History is a process
of enquiry and so at JPGS we want to foster and
encourage the ideas of questioning, recreating and
making history.

The Year 7 have been engaged trying to discover the
civilisation and impact of Rome upon the modern
world. They uncovered facts about the buildings
of Rome. They created a Roman legionaries shield
and then recreated the Roman armies manoeuvre of
‘Testudo’!

In the second term, they have been learning about castles
and were tasked with making models of real castles.
Below is an outstanding example of a Motte and Bailey
Castle made by one of our Year 7 pupils.

The Year 8 have been studying the tumultuous times
of the Tudors. Everything from crime and punishment
to King Henry VIII six wives (Divorced Beheaded
Died, Divorced Beheaded Survived!).

They also created a Tudor Wood beam house this year
both as physical models and some pupils showed
their crafting skills using an online building game
(Minecraft) as well. Year 9 have been engaged with 20th Century history topics
this year. It was a century of catastrophic conflicts on a
world scale. Key enquiries into the past have been regarding
the actions of certain central figures in history. The classes
of students put the famous British General Haig from
World War 1 on trial as accused of being ‘The Butcher of the
Somme’. Many witnesses were called and both prosecution
lawyers and the defence lawyers outlined the case in
history for the audience to come to its own judgement of
the evidence: a key skill in history. This year group has
also created in groups, video related to Appeasement in the
1930s and produced individual essays related to causation.
Another skill required as they think of IGCSE courses.

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