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It explains how the qualification aligns with the Curriculum for Wales, supporting statements of what matters and principles of progression through inquiry, evidence handling, interpretation, and justification. The document details how learners explore Welsh, European and world contexts, analyse continuity and change and significance, develop identity and cynefin, and engage with diverse perspectives, including stories of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people.","GCSE History Qualification Outline  \nVersion 1.0  \nMade for Wales.  \nReady for the world.  \nSummary of Amendments  \n\n| Version | Description | Page Number |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1.0 | Document Introduction | N/A |\n\nIntroduction  \nThis document provides an overview of the WJEC GCSE History qualification.  \nIt is based on Qualifications Wales’s Approval Criteria (gcse-history-approval-criteria. pdf ([qualifications.wales](qualifications.wales)) . Our qualification must meet these requirements.  \nThe qualification outline will provide a guide for the development of the Specification and Sample Assessment Materials (SAMs) . Aspects of the outline may need to be revisited if issues arise during the development process.  \nQualification Overview  \nThe GCSE History qualification will support the Curriculum for Wales by:  \n• supporting the statements of what matters 1 by giving learners the opportunity to:  \n• gain a deeper understanding of the concepts underpinning humanities, and their application in local, national and global contexts  \n• gather, justify, present, analyse, and evaluate a range of evidence  \n• draw informed conclusions, but also understand that some conclusions can only be partial or inconclusive and open to different interpretations  \n• critically review the ways events and experiences are perceived, interpreted and represented  \n• learn how various worldviews and factors can influence their own and others’perceptions and interpretations, exploring how and why interpretations may differ  \n• develop an appreciation of identity, heritage and cynefin, including the history of Wales and the World  \n• develop an understanding of the complex, pluralistic and diverse nature of societies, past and present , in particular the stories of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic people  \n• build an understanding of the causes, consequences and significance of the changes and interrelationships that have shaped societies at different levels of development  \n• understand how societies are and have been organised, structured and led, in learners’own locality and in Wales, as well as in the wider world  \n• explore the connections and interdependence between such societies in the past and present, in the context of a globalised world  \n• understand the interconnected nature of economic, environmental and social sustainability; justice and authority; and the need to live in and contribute to a fair and inclusive society that confronts and addresses racism  \n• critically reflect on their own and others’ beliefs, values and attitudes  \n• consider the impact of their actions when making choices and exercising their democratic rights and responsibilities  \n• justify their decisions.  \n• supporting the principles of progression2 by encouraging learners to:  \n• ask increasingly sophisticated enquiry questions  \n• find suitable information, making informed predictions and hypotheses, and making judgments about reliability and utility  \n• engage with an increasing breadth and depth of knowledge and underlying concepts to build an increasingly clear and coherent understanding of the world around them  \n• work with an increasing number and sophistication of sources of information, and a growing understanding of how to resolve contradictory or conflicting accounts  \n1 [https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/humanities/statements-of-what-matters/](https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/humanities/statements-of-what-matters/)  \n2 [https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/humanities/principles-of-progression/](https://hwb.gov.wales/curriculum-for-wales/humanities/principles-of-progression/)  \n• transfer existing skills and knowledge into new, and increasingly unfamiliar contexts , making links within and between periods and places, identifying similarities and differences, changes and continuities  \n• identify connections between new and previous learning with greater understanding of the world, of other people and their values, in different t","cbCaiqmzNyEU3NtW","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqmzNyEU3NtW","pdf",395203,1,8,"English","en",105,"# Introduction\n## Qualification Overview\n## Qualification Structure","[{\"question\":\"What is the purpose of the GCSE History Qualification Outline?\",\"answer\":\"It provides an overview of the WJEC GCSE History qualification and explains how it meets Qualifications Wales approval criteria for development of the specification and sample assessment materials (SAMs).\"},{\"question\":\"How does the qualification support the Curriculum for Wales?\",\"answer\":\"It supports statements of what matters and progression by enabling learners to develop enquiry skills, gather and evaluate evidence, interpret viewpoints, and draw informed (possibly partial) conclusions.\"},{\"question\":\"What units make up the GCSE History qualification?\",\"answer\":\"The qualification includes Unit 1 (in-depth study on Welsh history) as a written examination worth 30%, Unit 2 (European and/or World history) as non-exam assessment marked by WJEC worth 20%, and further study units described after Unit 3.\"}]","GCSE History Qualification Outline - 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