Designed specifically to help Year 9 students get a head start with the core skills they'll need at the beginning of their GCSE course, using Key Stage 3-appropriate content and activities.

• Gives superb support for the new EBacc certificate by engaging a broader range of KS3 history students with GCSE skills at an earlier stage.
• Supports both the Modern World History and Schools History Project GCSE specifications.
• Following extensive research with teachers, targets development of the skills students typically find difficult when moving from KS3 to GCSE, such as source analysis.
• Engages Year 9 students with 20th-century content and a range of interactive visual and written sources.
• Prepares students for controlled assessment, taking them through two enquiries and helping them to understand how to work with representations.
• Comprehensive teacher support includes customisable lesson plans and worksheets, plus video and interactive activities to interest all your students. Includes background information to help non-specialists understand the concepts.
• Builds on the proven success of our market-leading Edexcel GCSE 2009 resources to help make the transition equally as successful.
• Offers you full flexibility with different pathways, to use in different ways and at different times in Year 9.