To enable students to make sense of the world around them, develop their own voice in making judgements about the past, and to engage critically with History as a discipline.
| Power | Who has had power in the world? Who has challenged this power? | ||||
| Worldview | What ideas have framed how people understand the world? | ||||
| Conflict | How has war changed Britain? How has the experience of conflict changed over time? | ||||
| Society | What has life been like for ordinary people? | ||||
| Phases 3 and 4 | Developing passions and increasing independence | ||||
| Phase 3 and 4 Journey | Students have an understanding of the four time periods of British History – Medieval, Early Modern, 18th & 19th centuries and modern Britain. Students are able to place key events into chronological order. Students are able to identify key impacts on society from ‘big events’ e.g Norman Conquest. Students are able to identify and explain similarities and differences in Britain from Medieval period – 19th Century. Begin to develop use of key writing frames to help structure their answers. Use of voice to make key judgements. |
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| Phases 5 and 6 | Building choice, autonomy and empowered professionalism | ||||
| Phase 5 and 6 Journey | Being able to identify and explain similarities and differences in key areas of focus over time e.g. USSR, Crime and Punishment in Britain. Students are able to place key events in chronological order. Students are able to identify enquiry questions and create answers that answer the key questions. Students are able to dissect sources in order to identify how they support enquiry questions. Students are able to make judgements on the usefulness of a source/interpretation based on their contextual understanding of a time period. Able to articulate judgement through different mediums. |
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Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
Where are the toys hiding?
Spring term 2
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Great Fire of London
Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
The Victorians
Spring term 2
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Explorers
Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
Stone Age
Spring term 2
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Ancient Egypt
Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
Romans
Spring term 2
Anglo-Saxons
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
Benin
Book: Children of the Benin Kingdom
Spring term 2
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Ancient Greece
Book: Who let the Gods out?
Autumn term 1
Autumn term 2
Spring term 1
WW2
Book: Letters from the Lighthouse, Anne Frank’s Diary
Spring term 2
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Olympics
Book: Biography
Autumn term 1
Big History
Autumn term 2
Normans
Medieval Monarchs
Spring term 1
Silk Roads
Interpretations of the crusades
The Mali Empire
Spring term 2
The Mali Empire
Summer term 1
How has the population of our planet changed over time?
Coasts
Summer term 2
Black Death
Autumn term 1
The English Civil War
Interpretations of Oliver Cromwell
Autumn term 2
The Abolition of Slavery
Spring term 1
The Industrial Revolution
Spring term 2
British colonialism in the C19th
Interpretations of the events of 1857
Summer term 1
WW1
Votes for Women
Summer term 2
Local History Project
Autumn term 1
The Holocaust
Autumn term 2
World War 2
Spring term 1
World War Two
Spring term 2
The Atomic Bomb
Summer term 1
Decolonisation in the 20th Century
Summer term 2
Local History Project
Autumn term 1
Crime C1000- Present Day
Autumn term 2
Law Enforcement C1000 – Present Day
Spring term 1
Whitechapel, C1870-C1900: Crime, Policing and the inner city.
Spring term 2
Elizabeth: Queen, government and religion 1558-69
Elizabeth: Challenges to Elizabeth I – home and abroad, 1569-88
Summer term 1
Elizabethan Society in the Age of Exploration 1558-88
Summer term 2
Revision
Autumn term 1
Hitler’s rise to power, 1923-1933
Autumn term 2
Nazi control and dictatorship, 1933 – 1939
Spring term 1
Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1939
The Cold War
Spring term 2
The Cold War
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
Autumn term 1
Communist Government in the USSR, 1917 – 85
Establishing Communist Rule, 1949 – 57
Autumn term 2
Industrial and Agricultural Change, 1917 – 85
Agriculture and Industry, 1949 – 65
Spring term 1
Control of the people, 1917 -85
The Cultural Revolution, 1966-76
Spring term 2
Social Developments, 1917 – 85
Social and cultural changes, 1949-76
Summer term 1
The fall of the USSR, 1985-91
Summer term 2
Coursework
Autumn term 1
Coursework
Autumn term 2
Reform of parliament, c1780–1928
Spring term 1
Changing influences in parliament: the impact of parliamentary reform, c1780–1928
Radical reformers, c1790–1819
Spring term 2
The Women’s Social and Political Union, 1903–1403
Trades union militancy, 1915–27
Summer term 1
Summer term 2
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