Performance in One Day

The Challenge Every History Department Faces

History presents distinct challenges. The subject requires mastery of multiple skills—from source analysis and historical interpretation to crafting detailed, evidence-based extended responses. Your students are at various points in their historical understanding: some struggle with basic chronology and concepts, others need help with source evaluation, while your most capable students require guidance to develop the sophisticated analysis that distinguishes the highest levels of achievement. With extensive content to cover across diverse time periods and limited teaching time, conventional approaches often cannot provide the focused, intensive support needed to address these varied requirements effectively.

Our Solution: Intensive Skills-Focused Interventions

Our GCSE History programme delivers concentrated learning that accelerates progress. We offer a variety of Topic Focus options covering key areas of the curriculum across all major exam boards. Each intensive day is entirely exam-focused, giving students the targeted practice they need to overcome specific barriers to success.

Comprehensive Support Across All Exam Boards

We provide specialised Topic Focus options aligned with AQA, Edexcel and OCR specifications. Our programmes are designed to target the specific assessment objectives and question structures of your chosen exam board, while developing the core historical skills essential for GCSE success. Whether focusing on thematic studies, period studies, wider world depth studies, or British depth studies with historic environment, our tailored interventions deliver measurable results within a single intensive day.

Flexible Topic Menus to Target Your Needs

Our History Set Menu offers numerous combinations that can be tailored to your students’ specific requirements AND your exam board. Each topic is carefully aligned with specification content for AQA, OCR or Edexcel, ensuring complete relevance to your curriculum.

Exam Board-Specific Support

We provide targeted support for each examination board’s unique approach:

AQA GCSE History:

• Period Study Options – Focused support for Germany 1890-1945, America 1920-1973, or Russia 1894-1945, with emphasis on narrative accounts and explanation of key events
• Thematic Study Options – Skill development for Britain: Health and the people, Power and the people, or Migration, empires and the people, focusing on change, continuity, and significance across time
• Wider World Depth Study Options – Critical analysis techniques for conflict-focused topics including WWI, Inter-war years, Cold War, Asia, or Gulf and Afghanistan
• British Depth Study with Historic Environment – Source evaluation and contextual understanding for Norman England, Elizabethan England, or Restoration England

Edexcel GCSE History:

• Thematic Study and Historic Environment – Integrated approaches to Crime and punishment with Whitechapel or Medicine in Britain with the Western Front
• British Depth Study Options – Analytical techniques for Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, Early Elizabethan England, or the reigns of King Richard I and King John
• Period Study Options – Causation and consequence frameworks for Superpower relations and the Cold War, The American West, or Spain and the New World
• Modern Depth Study Options – Source analysis and interpretations mastery for Weimar and Nazi Germany, The USA 1954-75, or Mao’s China

We also provide comprehensive support for all OCR History options.

Rich Historical Source Application

What sets our History interventions apart is our extensive collection of primary and secondary sources that bring historical concepts to life. We personalise each course by incorporating relevant, examination-ready examples:

• Source Analysis – Guided practice with contemporary sources from your chosen period studies
• Interpretations Work – Comparative analysis of historians’ viewpoints with scaffolded approaches to evaluation
• Visual Sources – Techniques for extracting evidence from cartoons, photographs, and physical remains
• Written Sources – Strategies for analyzing bias, purpose, and provenance in historical texts

Each source is carefully selected to match specification requirements and provide students with the specific analytical approaches examiners expect to see in high-scoring responses.

Spotlight on Historical Skills Mastery

Our historical skills programme focuses on the critical elements assessed across all papers, which can account for up to 40% of the total GCSE History marks.

What makes this programme 100% exam-focused:

• Direct examination of mark schemes – Students analyse exactly what examiners reward in different question types at each grade boundary
• Chief Examiner insights – Unpacking examiner reports to identify common misconceptions and pitfalls in historical writing
• Extended writing mastery – Ensuring students can confidently structure arguments, deploy evidence, and make substantiated judgments
• Intensive work with model answers – Students analyse exemplar responses at different grade levels, identifying precisely what elevates answers from adequate to excellent
• Historical concepts development – Targeted practice with the second-order concepts assessed in the exam: causation, consequence, change, continuity, significance, and similarity/difference
• Guided practice with authentic exam questions – Students apply techniques to actual exam questions, receiving immediate feedback

How We’re Different

Exam focus from start to finish. Unlike general History intervention, every minute of our day directly connects to exam success. Students practise with real exam questions, analyse mark schemes, and understand exactly how to improve their performance.

Immediate measurement. Each day starts with a diagnostic assessment using past exam questions and ends with students completing a similar question, giving you concrete evidence of improvement and a clear measure of progress.

Active historical skills application throughout. Students don’t just learn historical concepts—they immediately apply them to exam questions, receive feedback, and refine their approach. No passive learning.

Proven Results

Schools report that students typically gain weeks of regular progress in our single-day sessions. More importantly, students leave with concrete strategies they can immediately apply in their next assessment.

“The focus on source analysis transformed our students’ Paper 2 responses. They finally understood how to evaluate provenance effectively and our results improved dramatically as a result.” – Head of History, Manchester Academy

Choose Your Focus

Select from our range of Topic Focus options to address your students’ specific needs, or combine multiple days for comprehensive exam preparation. Each programme is delivered by expert practitioners who understand exactly what examiners are looking for.

Ready to See the Difference?

Book a consultation to discuss which of our intensive History programmes will best accelerate progress for your students. We’ll help you select the perfect Topic Focus option to target your specific cohort needs and deliver measurable exam results.