History

Half Term 1

Half Term 2

Knowledge

Raiders & Invaders

1. Why did the Romans want to invade England?
2. What impact did the Romans have on Britain?
3. Did the Anglo Saxons violently invade England?
4. What can we learn about life in Anglo-Saxon Britain?
5. What impact did the Anglo Saxons have on Britain?
6. What impact did the Vikings have on Britain?

Norman Rule

1. Why was there a fight for the throne in 1066?
2. Why did William win the English throne in 1066?
3. How did William secure Norman rule?
4. What impact did the Normans have on Britain? (long term?)

How we assess

Summative Assessment: Migration

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 3

Half Term 4

Knowledge

Silk Roads

1.  What were the ‘Silk Roads’?

2.  Should the Silk Roads be renamed ‘The Slave Roads’?

3.  How were the Silk Roads the ‘Highway of Religion’

4.  What can Baghdad tell about the spread of wisdom on the Silk Roads?

5.  Should Genghis Khan be remembered as the master of the Silk Roads?

Medieval Britain

1. What was it like to live in a medieval England?
2. How was law and order maintained in the Middle Ages?
3. Why was the Black death so deadly? (cause, spread and symptoms)
4. What methods were used to try and escape the plague? (interpretations/sources)
5. How did the Black Death cause the peasants to revolt?

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 5

Half Term 6

Knowledge

Religion & Power in Tudor England

1.  How was religion changing in the 1500s?

2.  What problems was Henry VIII facing by 1530?

3.  Why did Henry ‘Break from Rome’?

4.  Does Henry VIII deserve to be remembered as a ‘great king’?

5.  What changes did Edward and Mary make to the church?

Elizabethan England & the Age of Discovery

1. What problems did Elizabeth face when she became queen in 1558?
2. How did the Catholics try to overthrow Elizabeth? (Plots and Armada)
3. What was life like in Elizabethan England?
4. Was Elizabeth I’s reign a ‘Golden Age’? (English exploration)

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Summative Assessment: Tudors

Half Term 1

Half Term 2

Knowledge

Industrial Revolution

1. Which new industries emerged in Britain in the late 19th century?
2. What were working conditions like in factories and how were they improved?
3. What was the impact of the Industrial Revolution on towns and cities?
4. How did public health improve during the Industrial Revolution?
5. Which inventors helped transform Britain into ‘the workshop of the world’?

West African Societies & The Transatlantic Slave Trade

1. How ‘rich’ were the kingdoms of West Africa?
2. What was the Transatlantic slave trade? (inc. Britain’s role)
3. How de-humanising was the Middle Passage and in the West Indies?
4. What impact did the slave trade have on West African society?
5. What role did slave resistance have on the abolition of slavery?

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Summative Assessment: Transatlantic slave trade

Half Term 3

Half Term 4

Knowledge

British Empire

1. How did the focus of Britain’s empire shift in the late 18th century?
2. Why were British convicts sent to Australia?
3. What was life like in a convict colony?
4.  What was the impact of colonisation on the aboriginal population?

British Empire

1. Conquest or culture: what should the Mughal dynasty be remembered for?
2. How did a British trading company come to rule most of India?
3. What caused the Sepoy mutiny?
4. How did British rule in India end and what was its legacy?

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 5

Half Term 6

Knowledge

Causes of the First World War

1. Why did tensions emerge in Europe in the late 20th Century?
2. How did 1 bullet result in the death of 20 million?
3. How did Britain recruit for the war?

Experiences of the First World War

1. How did Britain recruit for the war?
2. What conditions did men experience in the trenches?
3. How did the war affect civilians on the Home Front?
4. What was the impact of war on Britain?
5. How did WW1 help women win the vote?

How we assess

Summative Assessment: First World War

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 1

Half Term 2

Knowledge

Soviet Russia

1. Why were the Russians angry with their Tsar?
2. Who were the Bolsheviks and how did they gain power?
3. How did Stalin control the Soviet Union?
4. 4.    What was life like in Soviet Russia?

1920s USA

1. Why was America experiencing a ‘boom’ in the 1920s?
2. What happened when America banned alcohol?
3. What was the experience of African-Americans in the 1920s?
4. How did life change for women in the 1920s?
5. How did the ‘boom’ go ‘bust’?

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Summative Assessment: USA 1920s

Half Term 3

Half Term 4

Knowledge

Nazi Germany

1. How did the Nazi’s emerge in Germany? (ToV)
2. How did the Depression allow the Nazi’s to secure power?
3. How did the Nazi’s control and influence the German people?
4. What was life like under the Nazi dictatorship?
5. How did Europe go from peace to war 1933-39?
6. Was the policy of appeasement the right course of action?

Turning Points of the Second World War

1. What made Dunkirk one of Britain’s greatest escapes?
2. Why did Hitler fail to conquer Britain?
3. How did Britain survive the Blitz?
4. Was Stalingrad Hitler’s breaking point?
5. Was D-Day the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany?
6. How did the war spread to the Pacific?
7.  Was America justified in dropping the A-bomb?

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Summative Assessment: Turning Points of WW2 

Half Term 5

Half Term 6

Knowledge

The Holocaust

1. What was the Holocaust?
2. What was life like for the Jewish community before WW2?
3. How and why did the Nazis persecute the Jews?
4. What was the ‘Final Solution’?
5. How did Jews resist and how were they liberated?

Britain transformed 1945-2000s

1. From Blitz to Benefits: How did war create the welfare
2. How did the world gain their freedom?
3. Why did people migrate to Britain after the War?
4. Where does Tikka Masala come from?
5. The rise of the teenager
6. How ‘swinging’ were the sixties?
7. From Disco to Digital: Time travellers guides to Modern Britain (1970-00s)

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 1

Half Term 2

Knowledge

Paper 2: Eary Elizabethan England

 Key Topic 1: Queen, government and religion, 1558–69

• Elizabethan England in 1558: society and government.
• Elizabeth’s problems upon her accession to the throne
• Elizabeth’s religious settlement (1559)
• Puritan and Catholic challenges to the religious settlement
• The problem of Mary, Queen of Scots

Paper 2: Eary Elizabethan England

Key Topic 2: Challenges to Elizabeth at home and abroad, 1569–88

• Revolt of the Northern Earls
• Catholic plots against Elizabeth (Ridolfi, Throckmorton and Babington)
• Walsingham’s spy network
• Execution of Mary Queen of Scots.                                       
• Rivalry between England and Spain 1570-1584 (commercial, political, religious rivalry)
• Outbreak of war with Spain, 1585–88. English direct involvement in the Netherlands & Drake’s raid on Cadiz                                        
• Reasons for the defeat of the Spanish Armada

How we assess

Summative Assessment: Key Topic 1 1558-69

Summative Assessment: Key Topic 2 1569-88

Half Term 3

Half Term 4

Knowledge

Paper 2: Eary Elizabethan England

Key Topic 3: Elizabethan society in the Age of Exploration, 1558–88

• Education and leisure
• The problem of the poor
• Reasons for growth of overseas exploration
• Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe.
• Raleigh’s attempts to colonise Virginia  

Paper 1: Historic Environment: Whitechapel, c1870-c1900: Crime, Policing and the inner city

• Housing, overcrowding, crime
• Immigration tensions
• Policing in Whitechapel (organisation and difficulties)
• Investigative policing and the Whitechapel murders

How we assess

Ongoing formative Assessment

Summative Assessment: Key Topics 1+2

Half Term 5

Half Term 6

Knowledge

Paper 1: Crime & Punishment c1000-present

Key Topics 1+2: c1000–c1700: Crime and punishment in medieval / early modern England

• Changing criminal activity in Anglo-Saxon, Norman, late Medieval and early modern England 
• Changing law enforcement in Anglo-Saxon, Norman, late Medieval and early modern England 
• Changing punishment in Anglo-Saxon, Norman, late Medieval and early modern England 

Paper 1: Crime & Punishment c1000-present

Key Topics 3+4: c1700–c1900: Crime and punishment 18^th/19^th century and modern England

• Changing criminal activity in the 18^th century, 19^th century and modern England 
• Changing law enforcement in in the 18^th century, 19^th century and modern England 
• Changing punishment in the 18^th century, 19^th century and modern England 

How we assess

Mock Exam: Paper 1 Whitechapel & Paper 2 Elizabeth

Summative Assessment: Key Topics 1+2

Half Term 1

Half Term 2

Knowledge

Paper 3: Weimar & Nazi Germany 1918-39

Key Topic 1: The Weimar Republic 1918–29

• The origins of the Republic, 1918-19
• Early challenges to the Weimar Republic, 1919–23
• The recovery of the Republic, 1924–29
• Changes in society, 1924–29

Key Topic 2: Hitler’s rise to power

• Early development of the Nazi Party, 1920–22
• The Munich Putsch and the lean years, 1923–29

Paper 3: Weimar & Nazi Germany 1918-39:

Key Topic 2: Hitler’s rise to power

• The growth in support for the Nazis, 1929–32

• How Hitler became Chancellor, 1932–33

Key Topic 3: Nazi control and dictatorship, 1919–33

• The creation of a dictatorship, 1933–34
• The police state
• Controlling and influencing attitudes
• Opposition, resistance and conformity

How we assess

Mock Exam: Paper 1 Whitechapel & Crime and Punishment

Summative Assessment: Key Topics 1+2

Half Term 3

Half Term 4

Knowledge

Paper 3: Weimar & Nazi Germany 1918-39:

Key Topic 4: Life in Nazi Germany, 1933–39

• Nazi policies towards women
• Nazi policies towards the young
• Employment and living standards

Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

Key Topic 1: The origins of the Cold War, 1941–58

• Ideological differences between East & West
• Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam conferences
• Creation of satellite states
• Truman Doctrine & Marshall Plan
• Cominform & Comecon
• Berlin blockade and airlift
• Creation of NATO & Warsaw Pact
• Hungarian crisis, 1956

How we assess

Mock Exam: Paper 3 Germany 1918-39

Ongoing formative Assessment

Half Term 5

Half Term 6

Knowledge

Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

Key Topic 2: Cold War crises, 1958–70

• Refugee problem in Berlin
• Khrushchev’s ultimatum and the summit meetings, 1959-61
• Construction and impact of the Berlin Wall
• Cuban Revolution, 1959
• Bay of Pigs incident, 1961
• Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Prague Spring, 1968
• Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and the Brezhnev Doctrine

Paper 2: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

Key Topic 3: The end of the Cold War, 1970–91

• Détente (SALT I, Helsinki Agreements, SALT II)
• Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
• Reagan and the ‘Second Cold War’
• Gorbachev’s ‘New thinking’
• Arms reduction summit meetings, 1985-1987
• End of communism and Soviet control in Eastern Europe
• Collapse of the Soviet Union

How we assess

Summative Assessment: Key Topics 1+2

GCSE exams