Ysgol Rhiwabon is a mixed community comprehensive school in Ruabon, Wrexham, Wales.
History Department
At Ysgol Rhiwabon, the History department have been focussing on developing the skills of a historian through different methods.
In Year 7, they have brought history to life by using the skills of a historian to solve a murder. This involves looking at a wide range of evidence to piece together when the crime was committed, who was responsible and the possible motives.
In Year 9 students are using high level analytical skills to gather information to create their own ‘Diary of the Slave Trade’, which is one of the most popular topics at KS3.
Key Stage Four recently visited Berlin to enhance subject knowledge for THE Summer examinations on Germany 1919 to 1945. It was extremely valuable to see the level of questioning students used with each other when examining the exhibits at the former HQ of the SS, SD and Gestapo, which is now the Topography of Terror Museum, and also at the site of the Wannsee Conference. Students visited Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp and here they saw some of the awful conditions that the prisoners had to suffer at the Nazi work camp. Everyone enjoyed a tour of the Berlin Olympic Stadium, old and new and were able to see some examples of post-war de-Nazification. The trip finished with a guided tour of the Bundestag formally known as the Reichstag where we learnt about German politics and the modernisation of the German Parliament Building.
