KS3 History

Year 7

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

What is History?

  • Exploring the skills needed to study History
  • Chronology
  • Significance
  • Cause and consequence,
  • Bias and change.

Castles.

  • The role of castles
  • Life in a castle
  • How castles changed from the Norman Conquest onwards.

Project Romans!

  • Medieval life assessment
  • A study of Roman Britain
  • The roman way of life
  • Gladiators.

1066 and the English Throne

  • Contenders to the throne
  • The battles of 1066
  • The nature of William’s rule

Medieval Life.

  • Religion
  • Doom and paintings
  • Health and daily life in Medieval Britain.

Summer Examinations

  • Revision of all 5 topics leading up to the summer examination.

Year 8

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

The Tudors

  • Britain in 1485
  • Young Henry VIII
  • Henry’s Problems
  • Reformation

The Stuarts

  • Gunpowder plot
  • The Plague
  • Great Fire of London
  • Witches
  • American English

The history of Japan

  • Japanese religion
  • Japanese history
  • Samurai
  • Japanese Culture
  • Pearl Harbour
  • The Atomic Bomb

England abroad

  • The slave trade
  • Samurai Bill
  • Blackbeard
  • The Spanish Armada

The English Civil War

  • Charles I
  • The outbreak of war
  • The New Model Army
  • Execution of Charles I
  • Cromwell in charge.

Summer Examinations

  • Revision of all 5 topics leading up to the summer examination.

Year 9

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

The industrial revolution

  • Investigation into the causes -Effects of the Industrial   Revolution.
  • Key individuals who drove the revolution

Europe in the 1930s.

  • Treaty of Versailles
  • The Wall Street Crash
  • The Great Depression
  • Germany 1933
  • The Spanish Civil War
  • Mussolini and Italy

History of Protest

  • Methods of Protest
  • Communism
  • China
  • Northern Ireland
  • The Civil Rights Movement

World War One

  • Europe in 1900
  • Causes of World War One
  • Life in the trenches
  • Weapons of War

The Holocaust

  • History of Anti Semitism
  • Anti Semitism in Nazi Germany
  • Nazi Schools
  • Propaganda

Summer Examinations

  • Revision of all 5 topics leading up to the summer examination.