HISTORY

The History department is looking at GRIT (see page 8) throughout history and has been working with Year 7 enrichment students to compare their experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic to those of the older generations who lived through World War Two This has involved reflecting on personal experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic and then researching life on the home front in World War 2 to identify the similarities and differences The students then created a piece of work to symbolise the comparisons. As part of this project, students have visited the school's World War 2 tunnels to get a feel for what it would be like to attend MGGS 80 years ago.

Our History Department is currently split over 2 buildings. Being split between different parts of the school without a shared space makes it difficult to enhance our curriculum with active History For example, when teaching Jack the Ripper we would love to have a shared space to create a crime scene to inspire and develop student inquisitiveness about the past. This includes combining copies of original primary sources with modern-day technology and would be accessible to all students rather than just a few classes As part of this shared space, we are hoping to create a giant timeline to enable us to explore ways of further developing students' understanding of chronology and time In the classroom, students find the concept of time in history (i.e. if a topic of study is covering 20 years or 300 years) particularly difficult to process The timeline would allow students to actively and physically follow the story of British and World History enabling them to understand how different units of study fit together and what events were happening at the same time. This will help them to to build up a more accurate picture of how the modern world came to be what it is today.