The Key Stage 3 curriculum gives pupils the opportunity to investigate a murder in a mediaeval monastery, to explore the lifestyle of a clapper dudgeon and to discover the hardships of the underground rail road in the USA during the time of slavery. All of these topics, and many more, enable pupils to develop their skills of historical analysis and to learn that evidence must not be accepted at face value.  The School is superbly situated for pupils to make off site visits to the castles at Orford and Framlingham, the wool churches at Blythburgh, Southwold and Wenhaston (to view the magnificent Doom painting) and the ruined abbeys throughout East Anglia to support the study of Mediaeval realms in LIV (Year 7). UIV (Year 8) pupils have the opportunity to visit historic Tudor houses while Lower V (Year 9) may venture further afield to the Imperial War Museum and trips are arranged to the World War 1 battlefields. The work undertaken for Key Stage 3 provides an excellent foundation for GCSE study.