Terms

Year 7

Autumn 1

What is History? – Introductory skill based topic/Romans

• History Skills including: Bias, Chronology, research and types of evidence
• Roman Britain
• Local study of Wroxeter

(A study of an aspect or site in local history dating from a period before 1066).

(The study of an aspect or theme in British history that consolidates and extends pupils’ chronological knowledge from before 1066).

Autumn 2

The Norman Conquest

• Feudalism
• Norman Castles
• The Domesday book

(The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509)

Spring 1

Medieval Religion

• Christendom, the importance of religion and the Crusades
• The struggle between Church and Crown
• Religion in daily life (parishes, monasteries and abbeys.)

(The development of Church, State and Society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509)

Spring 2

Medieval Society and Politics

• The struggle between Church and crown
• Magna Carta and the emergence of Parliament
• Farming, trade and towns
• The Black Death and its social and economic impact
• The Peasants’ Revolt

(The development of Church, State and Society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509).

Summer 1

The Tudors

• The Wars of the Roses; Henry VII and attempts to restore stability
• Reformation in Europe
• The English Reformation and Counter-Reformation (Henry VIII to Mary I)
• Society, economy and culture across the period: for example, work and leisure in town and country, religion and superstition in daily life, theatre, art, music and literature.

(The development of Church, State and Society in Britain 1509-1745)

Summer 2

Elizabeth I

The Elizabethan religious settlement and conflict with Catholics (including Scotland, Spain and Ireland).

(The development of Church, State and Society in Britain 1509-1745)

Terms 

Autumn 1

The Stuarts

• Society, economy and culture across the period: for example, work and leisure in town and country, religion and superstition in daily life, theatre, art, music and literature.
• The Gunpowder Plot
• The Witch Craze

 (The development of Church, State and Society in Britain 1509-1745)

Autumn 2

The Civil War

• The causes and events of the civil wars throughout Britain
• The Interregnum (including Cromwell in Ireland)

(The development of Church, State and Society in Britain 1509-1745)

Spring 1

The Industrial Revolution

• Britain as the first industrial nation – the impact on society
• Living and working conditions in 19th Century Britain

(Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901)

Spring 2

Voting and Democracy

• Rotten Boroughs
• Peterloo Massacre
• The Great Reform Act
• Chartists
• Women’s suffrage

(Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901

Summer 1

Empire and Slavery

• The development of the British Empire with a depth study
• Britain’s transatlantic slave trade: its effects and its eventual abolition

(Ideas, political power, industry and empire: Britain, 1745-1901)

Summer 2

Black Peoples of America

• The American Civil War
• The Ku Klux Klan
• Jim Crow Laws and Segregation
• The Civil Rights Movement

(Study of a significant society or issue in world history and its interconnections with other world developments)

The Edwardians and WW1

• The Titanic
• Class prejudice
• Food in the Edwardian Era
• Cause of WW1
• Propaganda in WW1
• Weapons of WW1
• Life in the Trenches

(Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day)

World War 1

• Battle of the Somme
• Other Battles of WW1
• Armistice Day
• The Russian Revolution
• The Versailles Peace Settlement

(Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day)

Nazi Germany

• The inter-war years: the Great Depression and the rise of dictators
• The Rise of the Nazi Party
• Life in Nazi Germany

(Study of a significant society or issue in world history and its interconnections with other world developments).

World War 2

• The Second World War and the wartime leadership of Winston Churchill
• The Home front
• The Holocaust

(Challenges for Britain, Europe and the wider world 1901 to the present day.

The Cold War

• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• The Vietnam War
• The Space Race

(Study of a significant society or issue in world history and its interconnections with other world developments.

The Plains Indians

• Introduction to 19^th Century America
• The Great Plains
• Plains Indians and the buffalo
• Plains Indians beliefs
• Whit people and Plains Indians

(Study of a significant society or issue in world history and its interconnections with other world developments).