In the History Department we believe in teaching a broad and diverse curriculum that encompasses a wide range of historical themes, concepts, key individuals and time periods. In Fortis Foundation academy all students will receive this curriculum. Our aim is to provide students with an engaging curriculum that will inform and teach about History but also provide a sense of belonging and morality. In addition, we aim to provide a curriculum that will give an opportunity for areas of study to be repeated at GCSE which will give our pupils the prior knowledge needed to be successful

In the History department at Fortis Academy we make sure that we are addressing the needs of all pupils in our classrooms. In the first instance we offer differentiated support within all our lessons, including Deeper Thinking Tasks that develop higher level skills and the depth of knowledge students will need to achieve 7-9's at GCSE. We also provide Making Progress Sheets so pupils are able to see what they need to do to be successful in reaching their next grade; sentence starters when completing extending writing tasks and we work very closely with our SEND department on how we can co

There are many misconceptions that History really only enables you to become a History teacher. It is so much more than that.

You can become a:

• Lawyer
  
• Accountant
  
• Business executive
  
• Diplomat
  
• Legislators
  
• National-security agents
  
• Development officers
• And so much more!

Unfortunately, due to the nature of the global pandemic we are unable to offer extracurricular activities both inside and outside of school. However, we have an ambitious plan in the department to be able to offer at least one History trip a year for all years in the Foundation Academy. These trips will be run alongside the curriculum to enforce what is being taught inside the classroom with experiences outside of the classroom.

We will also offer experiences inside school where we have various speakers and visitors who can offer a real and up-close perspective of the content that we study.