History

Teachers: Mr. Kerr (HoD), Miss Weir

Facilities 
Two classrooms, one with an interactive whiteboard and a resource room. Both rooms have televisions and DVD facilities, as well as data projectors.

KS3
In first form the pupils are taught about the Normans, then Railways in Ireland, in second year the Tudors and Stuart period, then surgery through time, and in 3rd form Ireland from 1800 to 1923, and World War I.

GCSE
 At GCSE pupils study the Weimar Republic and the Nazis, Ireland between 1935 and 1950, and the Cold War, 1945-1991. The coursework looks at Popular Culture and the Vietnam War.

A-Level
At AS level the Chartists and Sir Robert Peel, the 1848 Revolutions in Europe and Mussolini are all taught, and at A2 Bismarck and the Unification of Germany, Ireland 1905-1923 and the synoptic course on Liberalism and Nationalism in the 19th century Europe all come under our scrutiny.

How does History benefit pupils and who studies it? 
History at RSD covers various periods of British, Irish and European history. It remains a popular and successful subject, offering skills of comprehension, selection, synthesis and presentation, and encouraging pupils to consider the evidence before drawing their own conclusions. History also helps pupils to understand the references in the news, answer the questions on "University Challenge", and get the jokes in "The Simpsons".

An RSD pupil who has been exposed for seven years to these courses emerges at the far end wiser, wittier and clutching a quiver full of skills, which should enable him or her to make their way more purposefully and more successfully through the world.