Key Stage 3 History

Curriculum Content

The course is based on three major themes - Power and Conflict - Everyday Life and Beliefs - Movement and Empire.

Year 7

  1. Romans and their Empire:
    beginnings, key people, trade, religion, slavery, the army, technical achievements.
  2. Medieval Britain 1066-1500:
    Norman conquest, land, key figures, Church, war, farming, Parliament, population, social change.

Year 8

  1. Making of the UK 1500-1750: unification of Britain, relationship of Crown, Parliament and people, civil war, poverty.
  2. Britain 1750-circa 1900, industrial change; improvements in transport; working conditions; political change;the Empire: Victorianism; a local study of Barton.

Year 9

  1. The Twentieth Century World: causes, types of warfare, military technology, effects on economy and society; emergence of dictators; causes of war in 1939; military technology; India and Ireland:Significant individuals.

Resources

Your child will work from a basic textbook supplemented with teacher-designed worksheets, photographs, contemporary sources (copies of material which was produced during the period of time which is being studied), video programmes and computer software.

Teaching Methods

In all years pupils experience a variety of methods including written work; oral discussion; group activities; the use of computer programs and Interactive Whiteboards; creating posters and brochures; simulation exercises; newspaper stories.

Skills and Knowledge

Your child will be encouraged to develop understanding in five key areas and to show that understanding by referring to relevant events in the syllabus:

  1. explaining why events have occurred, and their consequences;
  2. identifying changes in attitudes between periods of time;
  3. understanding the attitudes and beliefs of people in other centuries;
  4. understanding why people have different opinions about History;
  5. judging the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary evidence.