Edexcel History GCSE 2018

I'm a history HOD teaching this spec and the impression I am getting is that an awful lot of history departments have got the timings badly wrong on the new gcse. Some people posting on the teacher groups I'm in on social media seem to be completely in denial about just how behind they are too. IMO paper 3 can't be done in the time between Christmas and Easter and thinking that you can also do half of paper 2 is complete insanity. I will just have half of paper 2 to do after Christmas and I will finish just after Easter (I have a week by week plan). I would buy a set of the textbooks and encourage her to self-study as much as possible.

Some schools cover some of the syllabus in year 9. It might be worth checking with your DC whether this is in fact the case.

I would ask for a meeting with head of year, the history teacher and maybe your DDs form tutor.
Before you go, write everything down you want to discuss and ask how they’re going to achieve it. They might have a plan....doesn’t sound like it but you never know.

In the mean time, if you can afford a history tutor, I’d get one once a week or every two weeks from now on and get them to teach the last two sections they’ve not yet covered, rather than going over the stuff already learnt.

Some teachers aren't people-persons, but making people intimidated to ask you about things is a classic way to defend yourself when deep-down you know you are doing badly.
She probably justifies her unwillingness to engage by telling herself that rather than hand holding parents, her time is better spent preparing lessons.

I know that feeling because I've done it myself (not a teacher). You can feel sympathy with her, but don't let her away with it.
It never works out. Early intervention from SLT is the only chance of rescuing the situation, if that's what is going on.

My DD is also doing AQA and sounds like she is broadly inline with Mmzz all elements of paper one covered and some elements of paper 2. They are have lunchtime clinics where they are going through questions again from paper 1 so trying to keep everything fresh still...I would definitely contact her she surely cannot avoid communication at this stage in your daughter's education - just to put your mind at rest.

OP my DD is also doing Edexcel and they have just started the 4th section.

In depth (Crime & Punishment) plus Elizabethan England and Weimar Republic were all done last year, and they have just started Cold War. I can't remember which of these corresponds to the different papers.

DS is doing AQA so not the same but broadly similar. They have just started their 4th section. Of the test books, it's the thinnest. I think they are expecting to do nothing but revision from mid Feb onwards.

I didn't write that to make you feel bad, just to add a voice where you can stop doubting what your senses are telling you.
Personally, the teachers attempts to rebuff me combined with these very valid concerns you have would make me escalate things.
It's email her and ask for a phone call add you have concerns. Give her until Wednesday morning, then if no adequate response, email again giving her a deadline of next Friday. The following Monday, contact the head of year about your concerns that your DD's history GCSE is in danger and the teacher will not engage with you to discuss the issues.

Sorry, can't help, not a teacher, but I feel for you as my son is doing Edexcel History GCSE too and his teacher isn't really coping well either. They started to be taught King John as the British depth study last year and had spent a few months doing it, and then suddenly the teacher dropped the bombshell that he'd been teaching the wrong module and that they were doing Anglo Saxon and Norman England instead so had to start again and has since bombarded them with homework, etc., trying to catch up and are now only just onto the period study which he's also rushing them through. Stupid thing is, that the sheet they handed out on the first day clearly showed it was Anglo Saxon and Norman England they were doing, so heaven knows how the teacher managed to ignore that and teach something completely different instead!!