The overarching aim of the History curriculum is to kindle and sustain students’ interest in the past while fostering a deep understanding of historical knowledge, developing advanced critical-thinking and analytical skills, and cultivating a broad global perspective. Through this, the department seeks to nurture informed, responsible, and globally aware citizens, and to lay a solid foundation for further academic pursuit, particularly in the humanities and related disciplines.

a)    Curriculum Design & Content
Topics are carefully selected and regularly reviewed to illustrate core historical concepts clearly and to connect with students’ daily lives and current affairs.
Content is deliberately cut and tailored (especially in junior forms) to avoid overload and allow deeper understanding.

In senior forms (HKDSE), the two elective themes are strategically sequenced: Theme B taught in S.4, Theme A in S.5 and early S.6, leaving ample time for overall revision before mock and public exams.

b)    Teaching Materials & Resources
School-based, level-appropriate notes, booklets, worksheets, and supplementary materials are annually updated by teachers. Extensive use of audio-visual aids, maps, cartoons, diagrams, and other multi-media to enhance understanding. Contemporary world issues are explicitly linked to historical topics to make learning relevant.

c)    Pedagogy & Classroom Strategies
Strong emphasis on active student participation through discussions, debates, presentations, and group activities. Regular low-stakes retrieval practice (quizzes at the start of lessons, revision exercises after each topic) to reinforce memory of facts, terms, and spellings. Targeted language support to address the widespread weakness in English proficiency (a major identified issue). Differentiated instruction in senior forms: classes divided into ability groups with tailored tasks and study strategies.

d)    Skills Development Focus
Junior forms: Building foundational knowledge, chronology, and basic source-work skills (describing visuals, understanding cause-and-effect).

Senior forms: Intensive training in higher-order skills: extracting and analyzing information from sources, detecting bias, essay writing, data-based questions (DBQ), making inferences, and linking sources to own knowledge.

e)    Assessment & Evaluation
Continuous observation of students’ understanding, initiative, confidence, oral presentation, and analytical ability. Heavy drilling in examination techniques (structured essays and data-based questions) in senior forms.