History Department

History has a vital role to play in empowering young people to achieve their potential and to make informed and responsible choices and decisions throughout their lives as individuals, contributors to society and as contributors to the economy.
History is a chronicle of human behaviour - a real-life drama full of villains & heroes, the mighty and the meek. It examines the circumstances that moved its players to transform people and places (for better and for worse), and it holds the answers to how and why our lives are fashioned they way they are today.  When you know about history, you can understand what it really means to be in someone else's shoes.
History is enquiry-based and requires pupils to test hypotheses, questions and contest evidence and ideas and reach conclusions based on evidence.  If young people are to function effectively in the 21^st Century they must be able to evaluate the torrents of information we are bombarded with in today’s world.

To be ignorant of what happened before you is to forever remain a child.  For what is man’s lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier time?
Cicero 106BC – 43BC

D Alexander
Head of Department

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