Studying A Level History at Hautlieu School provides students with a wonderfully rich variety of skills that are easily transferrable into further academic study, employment and even in wider life. Through the study of History we of course explore the past, however it is the bigger societal and even psychological factors that truly make the subject such an enjoyable, mature and thought-provoking focus. How did Chairman Mao lead millions of his own citizens into famine? Why did rebellions arise in Tudor England and what was their fate? How did Leninism give birth to Stalinism? What multitude of factors resulted in The Great War? These are just a handful of the questions we ask and it is the challenge of exploring the possible answers that students relish!

Hautlieu Historians of the past have visited China, Berlin, Krakow and Moscow, alongside taking part in numerous opportunities on-island. Student’s exploration of the past along with consideration for other individual’s culture, beliefs, political standpoint and their ambitions to achieve happiness and tribal, national or even global unity, allow our young people to become rounded, understanding and more appreciative of the world in which we live.

Study History; broaden your thinking; be a part of discussions which not only analyse the past but could potentially change the future.