Topics/Skills Taught
History is taught in time order during Key Stage 3, helping students gain good chronological understanding and develop a range of historical skills. These include the ability to explain the causes of an historical event, assess change and continuity over time, write narrative history and analyse evidence and interpretations.
Year 7
Introduction: what is history?
The Norman Conquest
Medieval kings
Medieval beliefs
Plague, revolt and war
Everyday life in medieval times
Year 8
The Italian Renaissance
The English Reformation
The Tudors
The Stuarts
Mughal India
Year 9
Revolutions in the 18th and 19th centuries
The fight for freedom: slavery, empire and the Holocaust
Warfare in the 20th and 21st centuries
