Key Stage 3 History Curriculum Overview

KS3

History Key Stage 3 What do you learn in Years 7,8,9? Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 Family History (+Tudor England) What is History? Stuart England Industrial Britain 7 Medieval Realms Women Through Time (focus on Suffragettes) The British Empire The Slave Trade The Great War (WW1) 8 The Era of Dictators The 9 The Second World War Modern History Projects Holocaust

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 6 What is History? William s Problems after the Invasion Family History (Tudors) The Stuarts Industrial Times (1750-1900) Living Conditions in Towns Chronology Cause of the Civil War Family Tree Project Turnpike Roads Battle of Trafalgar History Skills: Mystery of the Mary Celeste (Source and Essay Skills) Motte and Bailey Castles The 2 Sides Weapons and Fighting Canals Henry VII The Class System Steam Power Feudal System Pretenders and Claimants Steam Transport: The Rainhill Trials Crime and the Police Battle of Naseby Domesday Book Castle Location Jack the Ripper Battle of Roundway and Devizes History Skills: The Bog Body The First Steam Railways Henry VIII Castle The Titanic Development GWR and Brunel Execution of a King Picture Source skills The Reformation Greatest Knight: William Marshall Transport Challenge HL Project British Empire an Empire to be proud of? Cromwell s Commonwealth and the Puritan Life Edward, Mary I and Elizabeth Medieval Times The Church And Thomas Becket (Essay Skills) Arkwirght and the first Factory England in 1060s James Wolfe and Quebec Spanish Armada Charles II and the Restoration How did Life Change during the Industrial Times 1066 the 3 Claimants The Black Death and the Peasants Revolt James I and the Gun Powder Plot Comparison of Rich and Poor through film: The Wolves of Willoughby s chase The Great Plague and the Great Fire The Battle of Hastings The Crusades Highway men The Last Stuarts Workhouses

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 5 Term 5 The British Empire The Slave Trade The First World War Conscription and Conscientious objectors Women Through Time Women in the 1920s Capture and the Triangular Trade Why an Empire? The Causes of WW1 Cleopatra SOE agents of WW2 Medieval Women Gas and Poetry Where were our colonies? The Schlieffen Plan Amelia Earhart Middle Passage The Kiplings and Grief Tudor Women Rosa Parks Auctions and Plantations American War of Independence Recruitment Witches Famous Female Figures (Should they be more famous?) The War At Sea Case Study: Wilf Joining up Devizes and its links to slavery Victorian Britain Lusitania The Royal Navy Trenches and Trench Systems Abolitionists and the Abolition Suffragists and Suffragettes Spring Scramble for Africa Offensive and the End of the War Soldier & his kit Emily Davison Anglo-Zulu War The Abolition of Slavery HL Project Technology causes Trenches HL Project Are there still countries in the Empire? How do you end a war? Treaty of Versailles Impact of WW1 Devizes War Memorial Resistance and Rebellion The Impact of the Empire: India Case Study: The Somme Amazing Grace and Wilberforce Aircraft Weighing up the British Empire Tanks

Term 1 Term 2 Term 3 Term 4 Term 6 Term 5 Rise of Dictators WW2 Stalingrad D Day Modern Britain Holocaust Hitler s Road to War Strategic Bombing POWs Cold War The Master Race Dictatorship and Democracies Berlin Wall Appeasement Far East and Pearl Harbour Spies A Gradual Process Space Race Marx and Lenin Blitzkrieg The Fall of Germany WW2 Kristallnacht The Falklands War Stalin Technologies Dunkirk The Atomic Bombing Ghettos Early Hitler Battle of Britain Miners Strike The Final Solution Nuremburg Trials Wall St. Crash and Gt Depression The Blitz The Hillsborough Disaster Anne Frank Sobibor: A Case Study Nazi Control (Terror Vs Propaganda) 9/11 Modern Britain Holocaust HL Project Youth in Nazi Germany Life in Nazi Germany