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Headteacher: Mrs J M Galbraith

Curriculum Outline History

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Half term 1 Half term 2 Half term 3 Half term 4 Half term 5 Half term 6 Y7 Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: What is History? What did the Romans How did William secure control of England? What mattered to medieval How did the religious do for us? people? reformation happen? Knowledge: Knowledge: What is chronology? Knowledge: Who wanted to be King of England in 1066? Knowledge: Knowledge: How do we construct What is a Republic? Why did William the Conqueror win the Battle of Hastings? What was life like in medieval How important was the timelines? How did Roman Society How did William establish control of England? villages? Catholic Church? What is an interpretation? work? How and why did castles in England develop over time? How important was religion to Who was Martin Luther? ordinary people? What was the Protestant Source investigation on a How did the Roman Empire expand? Key skills: What was the impact of the Reformation? suspicious death Causation Black death? How did the Catholic Church What was life like across How did medieval people deal respond? Key skills: the Roman Empire? Change & Continuity Similarity & difference with crime? Interpretation Key skills:

Use of evidence Key skills: Causation Key skills: Significance Enquiry question: Change & Continuity Significance Change & continuity Where did power lie in medieval England? (monarch / Similarity & difference Use of evidence Significance church)? Use of evidence

Knowledge: What kind of king was William I Why did The Anarchy occur? Enquiry question: Why was Thomas Becket murdered? Who used the Silk Roads?

Was King John the worst king? Knowledge: How significant was the Magna Carta? What were the Silk Roads? Why did the peasants revolt occur? What and who travelled along Key skills: the Silk Roads? Significance What can we learn from Interpretation Baghdad about the spread of wisdom? Use of evidence

Key skills: Enquiry question: Change & Continuity Did people go on crusade just to win a place in heaven? Causation Knowledge: Use of evidence What were the Crusades? Who went on the Crusades? What compelled people to go on Crusade?

Key skills: Significance Use of evidence Causation

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Y8 Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: What impact did the changes of Henry VIII have on Why was England ‘turned Was the Industrial How did the British empire Why was the slave trade England? upside down’ in the 17thC? Revolution a ‘dark come to dominate the abolished? and disastrous’ world? Knowledge: Knowledge: period? Knowledge: Why did Henry VIII break from Rome? What caused a civil war in England? Knowledge: Who was involved in the Why did Henry VIII close the monasteries? What impact did the civil war have Knowledge: How did Britain gain an empire? slave trade? What were the consequences of the English Reformation? on ordinary people in England? How did Britain change Is the British Empire something What was the Middle Did Bloody Mary deserve her nickname? Why was Charles I executed? Passage? between 1700 & 1900? to be proud of?

Key skills: Was Cromwell a monarch under a Was the Industrial What role did Liverpool play different name? Revolution ‘dark and Key skills: in the slave trade? Causation disastrous’? Causation Who were the abolitionists? Change & Continuity Key skills: What was life in urban Interpretations Use of evidence Causation areas like? Use of evidence Key skills: Interpretations Change & Continuity Causation Interpretation Interpretations Enquiry question: Use of evidence Key skills: Use of evidence Was the age of Elizabeth a ‘golden age’? Change & Continuity Interpretation Knowledge: Use of evidence What problems did Elizabeth face? Similarity & Difference How did Elizabeth deal with these problems?

Key skills: Causation Use of evidence

Enquiry question: What can we learn about the kingdom of Benin from non-written sources?

Knowledge: Where was Benin? What sources of evidence are available to us? What can we learn about Benin?

Key skills: Use of evidence Interpretations

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Y9 Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: Enquiry question: How did people in the UK Why did a world war How did the great powers Was WW2 a How did anti-Semitism turn How significant was gain universal suffrage? break out in 1914? establish peace for the 1920s? continuation of to genocide? Martin Luther King in the WW1? fight for civil rights? Knowledge: Knowledge: Knowledge: Knowledge: What is suffrage? Who were the great powers How did the Treaty of Versailles Knowledge: Who were the Jews of Europe Knowledge: Why were there calls for of Europe before 1914? punish Germany? What were the causes of before the 20th Century? What were the Jim Crow suffrage in the 19th Century? What were the main causes What was the reaction in Germany? WW2? How were Jewish people Laws? What happened at Peterloo? of war in 1914? Was the League of Nations a What were the key persecuted in Germany 1933-39? Why did Black Americans How significant were the success? events of WW2? What was the impact of the fight for Civil Rights after the suffragettes in gaining female Key skills: Why is Liverpool’s blitz outbreak of war on the Second World War?? suffrage? Causation Key skills: ‘forgotten’? persecution of Jewish people? What impact did peaceful Similarity & Difference Change & continuity What was the Final Solution? protest have on the progress Key skills: Interpretations Key skills: of Civil Rights in the 1960s? Causation Enquiry question: Use of evidence Causation Key skills: What impact did militant Change & Continuity What was the impact of Use of evidence Causation protest have on the progress Significance WW1? Change & Continuity of Civil Rights in the 1960s? How significant was Martin Interpretations Enquiry question: Evidence Luther King? Knowledge: Who were the dictators of the

How did trench warfare 1920s and 1930s? Key skills: affect the soldiers fighting? What role did women have Causation Knowledge: Similarity & Difference during WW1? Is Animal Farm a good allegory for Did Haig deserve to be Significance the Russian Revolution? Interpretation known as ‘the Butcher of How did Hitler come to power in the Somme’? Germany?

Key skills: Key skills: Use of evidence Causation Interpretations Interpretation Change & Continuity

Y10 Anglo-Saxon & Norman England, c.1060-1088 Crime & Punishment through Time

Knowledge: Knowledge: What was life in Anglo-Saxon England like? How did medieval society deal with law & order? Who wanted to be king in 1066? What role did the Church play in law & order? Why did William win the Battle of Hastings? What impact did societal changes have on law & order? What changes did William introduce to England? Why was the Bloody Code abolished? Why was a police force introduced in 1829? Key skills: What changes to law & order have been brought about through technology?

Identifying key features of a society Key skills: Similarities and difference Similarities and difference Change & continuity Change & continuity Cause of change Cause of change Consequences of change Consequences of change Significance Significance Source evaluation

Y11 Weimar & Nazi Germany Superpower Relations 1940-1990 Revision & examinations

Knowledge: Knowledge: What was the Weimar Republic? How did the Cold War begin What challenges did the Weimar Republic face 1919- Difference between Communism & Capitalism 1923? Key events in build up to tension & arms race How did the Weimar Republic recover, 1924-29? Key events in Cold War How did Hitler create a Nazi state by 1934? The collapse of the Soviet Union How did Hitler gain control of Germany? What was life like under the Nazis, 1934-39? Key skills:

Key skills: Chronology Consequence Causation Significance Cause of change Constructing a narrative of change Consequences of change Analytical narrative Significance Evaluation & analysis of sources and historical interpretations

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