Subject Overview

The Australian Curriculum for History provides students with the opportunity to deepen discipline-specific knowledge, understandings and skills. The content is organised into two strands: knowledge and understanding, and inquiry and skills. These strands provide opportunities for students to develop historical understanding through key concepts including evidence, continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, empathy, significance and contestability.

Students undertake study in Year 9 History for one Semester through the following topic: The Making of the Modern World from 1750–1918

For more information about this subject offering, please contact Brooklynne Coombe, Head of Middle School.