KS3
Term 1
Term 2
EMPIRE &
CONTROL
* Domesday Book
* Feudal System
* Magna Carta
* Medieval Church
* Murder of
Thomas Becket
*Thomas Becket
Source
assessment
Key Question:
How did Medieval
Kings take
control?
Term 4
Term 5
MONARCHY & POWER
*Civil War Project *Oliver
Cromwell
*Life in Tudor
England/Cromwell’s England
*Crime and Punishment –
Vagabonds
*Civil War Project
assessment
Key Question: How different
would life be without the
Queen?
CHANGES IN SOCIETY
COMMUNICATION/TRAN
SPORT/INVENTIONS
* Industrial Revolution –
boom (compare London’s)
*Inventions (Crystal
Palace project/MiniMuseum)
*Children in the factories
– consequences
*Children in the factories
newspaper report
Key Question: Why was
Brunel voted the Greatest
Britain of all time?
Term 3
MONARCHY & POWER
*Overview of Tudors/Stuart
monarchy
* How was Britain made?
*Guy Fawkes
(assessment/project)
*Charles I and Parliament
*Civil War Project
*Guy Fawkes assessment
Key Question: What is
Bonfire Night?
Term 6
Year
7
SKILLS WAR
AND CONFLICT
*Contenders to
the Throne
*Battle of
Hastings
Castles
*Initial
Assessment
Key Question:
Why did Harold
lose the Battle of
Hastings?
EMPIRE
* British Empire and links
with Slavery/USA
* Public Health –
comparative element of
Industry and Wealth
*Essay on Key Question
Key Question: Was Great
Britain really that Great?
Year
8
WAR AND CONFLICT
*The Causes of WW1 – The Long
Term and the Short Term
*Trench Warfare Project
*General Haig: a Butcher or a Good
leader? (Source Assessment)
Key Question: Should WW1 be a
subject for comedy? (Blackadder)
CHANGES IN SOCIETY: USA 1920s
*‘Boom’ period
*Entertainment and Hollywood
*Gangsters and Prohibition
*’Bust’ period in America
*KKK and Racism
*Prohibition
Key Question: How ‘United’ were the United States of
America? *Assessment essay
Weimar & Nazi Germany 1918-39
Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91
Crime and Punishment
EDEXCEL
EDEXCEL
EDEXCEL
The Weimar Republic
The origins of the Cold War (1941-58)
CHANGES IN SOCIETY
*Causes of WW2
* Kent in WW2
*Dunkirk and D-Day
*Bombing and the Blitz
*Home Front
*Dads Army
Key Question: How far did Britain ‘Keep Calm and Carry
On’? *Assessment essay
KS4
Year
9
Hitler’s rise to power
Nazi control and dictatorship
Life in Nazi Germany
*GCSE Mock exams and Homework
Year
10
The Roaring 20’s: 1919-1929
Year
11
Hitler’s
Germany 192945
AQA
Hitler’s rise to
power
Nazi control and
dictatorship
Life in Nazi
Germany
*GCSE Mock
exams and
Homework
AQA
’Bust’ period in America
KKK and Racism
Prohibition
*GCSE Mock exams and Homework
GCSE Controlled
Assessment
AQA
Britain at War 2 Questions based
on 6 sources
- Truman doctrine
- Berlin divided
The Cold War Crises (1958-70)
- Berlin Wall and Cuban Missile Crisis
The end of the Cold War (1970-91)
- Détente and influence in Afghanistan
- Collapse of the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall
*GCSE Mock exams and Homework
Race Relations in the USA 1945-1968
AQA
NAACP
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
The Black Panthers
Black Power
*GCSE Mock exams and Homework
Cold War and Revision
The Cold War 1945-2000
AQA
The origins of the Cold War (1945-1960)
- Truman doctrine
- Berlin divided
The Cold War Crises (1960-80)
- Berlin Wall
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Détente and the influence in Afghanistan
The end of the Cold War (1980-2000)
- Afghanistan
- Glasnost and Perestroika
- Collapse of the USSR and fall of the Berlin Wall
- The UN: Kuwait, Iraq and Kosovo
- *GCSE Mock exams and Homework
Crime and Punishment in
Medieval England
-Saxon Laws
- The Wergild
- Significance of the Church
*GCSE Mock exams and
Homework
GCSE Controlled Assessment
AQA
Britain at War 2 Questions based on 6 sources
Revision
AQA
Topic based exam skills
Recap on all content
KS5
Year
12
The USA: In Search of the American Dream (1917-96)
EDEXCEL
-The decline of Republicanism
- The American Boom Period
- The Great Depression
- Civil Rights Movement
- Conflicts and the Public perception (Korea/Vietnam)
- Reagan: Case Study
- The Cold War era
*Mock exams, Research and Homework
Year
13
Complete
Controlled
Assessment
Plan and write up
of question 1 and
2 for controlled
assessment.
India: The Road to Independence (1914-1948)
EDEXCEL
- World war One and the impact on British India
- Changing Political relationships
- Ghandi
- The Round Table conferences
- The Government of India Act
- Impact of the Second World War
- Mountbatten
*Mock exams, Research and Homework
Unit 3 – From Kaiser to Führer: Germany, 1900 – 45
Revision on AS topics
EDEXCEL
EDEXCEL
- Issues of the Second Reich
Topic based exam skills
Recap on all content
-Germany and the cause of the First World War
-Impact of WW1 on Germany 1914-18
- Problems of the Weimar Republic
-The rise of the Nazi Party, 1920-33
-Popularity of the Nazi regime in the years 1933-39
-Life in Wartime Germany, 1939-45
*Mock exams, Research and Homework
Controlled Assessment
EDEXCEL
- To confirm what
topic we will be
looking at. In talks
with exam board
regarding question
setting
Exams