HISTORY
Year
Autumn Term
Group
Medieval Realms: 10661509
7
Focus on Conquest and
change: Intro to source
skills and key components.
Assessment focus is on
extended writing and skills.
Getting them used to
writing longer answers from
the word go.
Homework’s are to be built
in.
Content:
1066 and all that jazz
Medieval Realms: peasant
life, monks, religion, control
of population, black death.
Castle competition to run
alongside until January!
All tasks on Moodle.
Spring Term
Summer Term
Medicine through time, including a pre
1066 study of Britain.
Mughal Empire 1526-1857
It will be a thematic study which explores a
huge timeframe, taught chronologically. It will
have a focus on change and continuity and the
significance of medicine and its impact on
cultures and empires.
Assessment: What bought about the biggest
change, testing ability to link, identify and
assess significance?
Homework’s are in built.
Ms Lyons
Diversity and blending in the Mughal
Empire (using artefacts to explore
History)
Socio-economic elements, culture,
expansion, conflict and decline.
A thematic focus looking to layer the
content of society and how it became
more tolerant.
Assessment:
‘How tolerant was the Mughal Empire?’
Homework’s will be built in,
Ms Lyons
Ms Lyons
8
Tudors and life in
Britain 1509-1745
Tudors and life in Britain 1509-1745
Slavery and Empire 1745-0901
Focus on significance,
change and continuity.
Content includes: Henry
VIII and the Break with
Rome, Mary I, Elizabeth I,
Witchcraft, and The
Spanish Armada.
Assessment will be on
Elizabethan portraits.
Homework project to be
updated and to be more of a
menu: using the Futures
criteria to mark.
Hmk Guide: Choose a
minimum of 2 of the
following:
. Tudor Fashion Guide, Tour
of a Tudor Prison/wanted
poster. Make a newspaper
article e.g. back pages on
Tudor sports, Recipe Book
Focus on significance, change and continuity.
Content includes: Henry VIII and the Break
with Rome, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Witchcraft,
and The Spanish Armada.
Assessment will be on Elizabethan portraits.
Homework project to be updated and to be
more of a menu: using the Futures criteria to
mark.
Hmk Guide: Choose a minimum of 2 of the
following:
. Tudor Fashion Guide, Tour of a Tudor
Prison/wanted poster. Make a newspaper
article e.g. back pages on Tudor sports, Recipe
Book for Tudor Banquets, design an estate
Agency window for Tudor housing.
Trip to Hampton Court Palace
Focus is on cause and consequence,
similarity and difference.
Content includes Was Africa civilised,
The Middle Passage, conditions in
America, slave rebellions, life on the
Plantations.
Assessment is to design their own slave
book text pages.
Second assessment will be a recall test.
Homework is a research project with a
choice of activities.
WR
Ms Joshi
Focus is on significance, targeting key
battles and impact on civilians.
World War One challenges for
Britain, Europe and the wider world
1901 to present day.
Content: cause and consequences,
for Tudor Banquets, design
an estate Agency window
for Tudor housing.
Trip to Hampton Court
Palace
Schlieffen Plan, life in the trenches,
conscientious objectors, Home Front,
impact on women, key battles e.g. Gallipoli.
Assessment will be the Schlieffen Plan
role play and a GCSE type question to
develop skills early on.
Homework: research project on the Home
Front with a choice of options.
E.g. make a video of a CO. Make a
scrapbook of a day in the life of a
Londoner during WW1.
Ms Joshi
Mr Wright
9
World War One
challenges for Britain,
Europe and the wider
world 1901 to present
day.
Focus is on significance,
targeting key battles and
impact on civilians.
Content: cause and
Holocaust and Genocide
Challenges for Britain, Europe and the
wider world 1901 to present day
Focus is on significance, cause and
consequence, historical enquiry.
Content:
Armenia: what happened, the Holocaust,
including causes, Ghettos, the camps,
Goldhagen, memory, Nazi hunters.
My Lai massacre
Civil Rights and the 20th Century
America
Focus is on historical enquiry,
significance.
Content includes: who was the most
significant individual: Rosa Parks, Murder
mystery on who killed JFK, MLK, Lind
Brown, Emmett Till, Little Rock, Black
Power and Barack Obama.
consequences, Schlieffen
Plan, life in the trenches,
conscientious objectors,
Home Front, impact on
women, key battles e.g.
Gallipoli.
Assessment will be the
Schlieffen Plan role play
and a GCSE type question to
develop skills early on.
Homework: research
project on the Home Front
with a choice of options.
E.g. make a video of a CO.
Make a scrapbook of a day
in the life of a Londoner
during WW1.
Mr Wright
Rwanda
Genocide today? (A historical enquiry)
Assessment: Longer answer q on ‘Who had
the biggest impact on the CR movement.’
Assessment: Boy in the Stripped PJs.
Homeworks: To be built in.
Homework’s: Built in, focused around e
learning, e.g tweet about MLK #,
facebook profile.
Mrs Ward
Mr Wright
Jack the Ripper
Assessment: based around a historical
enquiry that will mimic the GCSE
coursework.
Mrs Ward