History Department

Aims and Objectives:

to maintain an open and collaborative community in the History Department;

to focus on, integrate and develop the 2023-2024 school year themes “SMART CITIES” (SMART signifies the intelligent use of resources in an efficient and effective way while CITIES represents a “Cradle for Integrating Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability”); under the sub-themes “Healthy Living, Happy Life” and "Gratitude and Hope"

to infuse the Green Policy within the department;

to implement the Four Key Tasks in daily teaching and learning of History:

• Moral and Civic Education;

• Reading to Learn;

• Project Learning;

• IT for Interactive Learning (mobile technology and iPad)

to implement the NSS History curriculum;

to implement the IGCSE and IAL History curriculum;

to be more reflective on the strengths and weaknesses of the department;

to address Assessment for Learning and create an assessment policy;

to enrich teachers through staff development on Wednesday afternoons;

stimulate interest in, and enthusiasm for, the study of history;

to enhance the understanding of history as a discipline based on the critical study of evidence;

to focus on development of generic skills e.g. analysis, synthesis, interpretation which can foster critical thinking, the making of sound judgments and effective communications;

to equip students with a knowledge of selected regions, periods or themes/ topics in order to foster an understanding of historical concepts, generalizations and trends;

to promote the ability to develop personal and social values through encouraging an awareness and appreciation of the past.