Key Stage 3
Year 7
Intent
Students will understand the changing nature and structures of power and how this led to conflict across the Medieval and Renaissance era. They will gain a foundational understanding of how to use the key concepts and skills of a historian.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skill
- Chronology of Nottingham’s history
- Inference and utility skills
- Interpretations of Robin Hood
- Causes and consequence of Fire of Nottingham Castle
- Significance of Potter, Clough, Torvill and Hawksley
- Change and continuity in Sherwood
Enriched Knowledge
- Understanding of cultural and diversity
- Gender portrayal in media
- Role of individual in society
- Changes in community
Key Vocabulary
- Chronology
- Inference
- Significance
- Utility
- Change & Continuity
- Cause & Consequence
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The succession crisis of 1066
- The battles of 1066
- Impact of Norman Conquest on life and culture
- Castles as a foundation of control
Enriched Knowledge
- Medieval vs Modern style of government
- Power and repression during the Conquest
- Class division and assimilation of French culture to England
Key Vocabulary
- Succession crisis
- heir
- conquest
- division
- feudal
- assimilation
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Peasant and town life
- The Medieval Church
- Relationship between Church and State (Thomas Becket)
- The Black Death
Enriched Knowledge
- Social divide and poverty
- Influence of religion and control of the Church
- Superstition and scientific knowledge
Key Vocabulary
- Peasant
- hierarchy
- Church
- archbishop
- superstition
Core Knowledge and Skills
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Henry VIII and the reasons behind the Break from Rome
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Religious differences in Tudor Britain
Enriched Knowledge
- Gender roles in politics
- Geopolitical influence of religion
Key Vocabulary
- Pope
- Catholic
- Protestant
- Tudor
- succession
- heir
- court
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Mid-Tudor Crisis (Edward VI and Mary I)
- Religious divide and challenges
- Elizabeth I’s challenges from home and abroad
- Diversity within Tudor society
Enriched Knowledge
- Misogyny and attitudes to women in power
- Multicultural Britain
- Moral questions around faith and violence
Key Vocabulary
- Mid-Tudor crisis
- Excommunication
- papal bull
- armada
- plot
- treason
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Causes and events of the Civil War
- Trial and execution of Charles I
- Cromwell’s rule in Britain and Ireland
- Restoration
Enriched Knowledge
- Monarchy vs republic?
- Moral questions: death penalty, public execution, fair trials, the reconquest of Ireland, violence to achieve goals?
Key Vocabulary
- Stuart
- Puritan
- restoration
- civil war
- parliament
- republic
- democracy
Year 8
Intent
Students will learn how technology, warfare and greed shaped both British society and Britain’s global position, 1700-1918. They will build on the foundations of Year 7 in order to explore more challenging source material and apply historical skills in greater depth.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Medieval crime and punishment
- Tudor vagrancy laws
- The Gunpowder Plot
- Stuart witchcraft laws
Enriched Knowledge
- Social injustice: ‘Is it a crime to be poor?’
- Terrorism and religious extremism in 17th C
- Misogyny in 17th C society
Key Vocabulary
- Vagrant
- Pillory
- Extremism
- Witchcraze
- Superstition
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The Bloody Code
- The Victorian prison system & police force
- Jack the Ripper (case study)
- The abolition of the Death Penalty
- Technology in modern crime and policing
Enriched Knowledge
- The use of capital punishment
- the role of media in crime
- development of modern cyber crime, incl online safety
Key Vocabulary
- Capital punishment
- Abolition
- Policing
- Bogus
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Change and continuity in urban areas, 1750-1900
- Working conditions in cotton mills
- Advances in technology
- Public health in Industrial towns
- The Titanic (case study)
Enriched Knowledge
- Social injustice
- local study of Nottingham during cholera outbreak
- the Edwardian class system
Key Vocabulary
- Urbanization
- Working conditions
- Public health
- Laissez-faire
- Class
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The slave triangle
- Conditions of the Middle Passage
- The life of slaves
- Abolition of slavery
- ‘Vested’ interest in slavery, incl American cotton
Enriched Knowledge
- Exploration of the concept of ‘freedom’
- economic causes for slave trade
- African culture among slaves
Key Vocabulary
- Slavery
- Colonisation
- Vested interest
- Culture
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The long-term causes: militarism, imperialism, alliances and nationalism
- The assassination of Franz Ferdinand as the ‘trigger’ to war
Enriched Knowledge
- The scramble for Africa
- Greed and colonisation as key causes; terrorism vs freedom-fighting
Key Vocabulary
- Militarism
- Imperialism
- Alliances
- Nationalism
- Trigger
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The Schleiffan Plan and why it failed
- Trench warfare
- Trench conditions
- WWI weapons
Enriched Knowledge
- Assessment of General Haig: should his statue be removed?
- WWI poetry and art
- WWI propaganda vs reality
Key Vocabulary
- Trench warfare
- propaganda
- shelling
- Tactics
- Stalemate
Year 9
Intent
Students will examine a range of 20th Century British and world events, in order to appreciate how these events – both atrocious and courageous – shaped modern day Britain. By the end of Year 9, students should have evolved into capable historians who are able to interrogate varied source material and study the nuances of important events in order to draw conclusions. They should also be able to confidently connect historical events to modern day phenomena.
Learning Journey
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The Suffragettes Movement
- Changes to lives of women
- 1920s Prohibition in America
Enriched Knowledge
- Gender roles and the importance of universal suffrage (the right to vote)
- Impact of alcoholism on the family
Key Vocabulary
- Suffrage
- Democracy
- Conservatism
- Prohibition
- Bootlegging
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Did WW1 cause WW2?
- The Wall St Crash
- Hitler’s Foreign Policy Aims
- The road to war
Enriched Knowledge
- Economic impact on voting patterns
- Impact of appeasement as a foreign policy
Key Vocabulary
- Economic depression
- Lebensraum
- Appeasement
- Isolationism
Core Knowledge and Skills
- Blitzkrieg
- Dunkirk & the Battle of Britain
- Pearl Harbour
- The Blitz
Enriched Knowledge
- Morality of modern warfare tactics and the human cost of war
Key Vocabulary
- Blitzkrieg
- Occupation
- Aerial bombing
- Evacuation
- Morale
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The atomic bomb
- Life for Jews before the Holocaust
- Laws and persecution before WW2
- Escalation of persecution during WW2
- Aftermath of WW2
Enriched Knowledge
- The (im)morality of the atomic bomb and how it changed warfare
- The powerful collective role of the ‘bystanders’
- The accountability of the perpetuators and collaborators
Key Vocabulary
- Bystander
- collaborator
- perpetuator
- resistor
- accountability
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The role of the East India Company
- British rule in India
- The Partition of India
- Migration to Britain from the Indian sub-continent
Enriched Knowledge
- Colonization and the importance of trade
- The atrocity of Amritsar
- The experiences of migrants to Britain, including accounts from the school community
Key Vocabulary
- Merchant
- Goods
- Colonization
- Sepoy
- Independence
Core Knowledge and Skills
- The Windrush generation
- Racial and social conflict in post-war Britain
- The Windrush Scandal
Enriched Knowledge
- Racism in post-war Britain
- Caribbean influence on British culture, including Notting Hill Carnival
- The experiences of migrants to Britain, including those who settled in Nottingham
Key Vocabulary
- Migration
- Race riots
- Discrimination
- Labour shortage
- Carnival