A Taste of the History Department
These pages offer a sample of pupil work. They don't pretend to be a comprehensive collection... You can sample work from the following years (click on the heading):
Lower One (Yr 6)
Native Americans
After studying the way of life of Native Americans in History, Lower One made models of Tepees to demonstrate how Native Americans lived. These tepees were fantastic ranging from large to small and from one very detailed tepee to a village of tepees. The pupils thoroughly enjoyed making them and have produced excellent results which were judged by Mr Harvey, the Master of Jerwoods, and Miss Rooke based on creativity and effort.
First Year (Yr 7)
News of the Black Death
Some First Year pupils investigated the Black Death and produced 'newpaper reports from the time'.....
Second Year (Yr 8)
A report on Factory Conditions in Britain in the mid-nineteenth Century
What was it like to work in a factory around 1850? Second Year pupils did a joint History/ICT exercise in producing a set of web pages on this topic. They researched the subject using books, CD-ROM and Internet resources and then put together their report, organised into separate sections. They had to work out how best to organise and present their reports.
Third Year (Yr 9)
The Plains Indians
A Powerpoint presentation - viewable on-line - on the life of Native Americans of the Great Plains in the nineteenth century.
First World War Newspapers
A ‘newspaper’ reports... on the outbreak of World War I, ...and another reviews the war effort at the end of 1915: the main battles, developments in technology, the state of Britain - Year 9 ICT/History exercises.
Home Front in World War II
Pupils in the Third Year (Year 9) interviewed people they knew about life in Britain during the Second World War.
These interviews give a remarkable picture of those times. The interviews can be searched for key words and comparisons made.
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
Who made the greater contribution to the Civil Rights campaigns in the USA of the 1950s and 1960s?
Some Third Year (Year 9) pupils present their answers.
News Stories from the Struggle for Civil Rights
Two important incidents from the 1960s - as they might have been reported at the time:
A Lunch Counter sit in from 1960;
The Shooting of Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.
Fourth Year (Yr 10)
Responses to the Treaty of Versailles
How might newspapers in France, Britain or Germany have reported the Treaty of Versailles, signed in June 1919?
Here are some imaginative recreations of the press of the time.
An examination of the Manchurian Crisis 1931-33
The Japanese attack on Manchuria in 1931 and the response to this aggression by the League of Nations was one of the key developments in the 1930s which led to World War II.
Jeremy Ma, Keith Wong & Roy Chow produced this Powerpoint presentation.