Skills Developed

A range of skills are developed throughout KS3 History by the following Key Performance Indicators:

• Develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in local, British, and wider world history; and of the wide diversity of human experience.
• Engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers.
• Develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context.
• Develop an awareness of why people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them.
• Organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.

Year 7

Key Topics Covered

• What is History?
• The Norman Conquest
• Study from before 1066
  • e.g. Fortifications/Castle
• Monarch – Church v State – Murder of Becket
• John, Magna Carta and Parliament
• Society – Peasant Life, including Black Death
• Crusades
• 1509-1175 (i)
  • Religious Change
  • Society – The Witch Craze

Year 8

Key Topics Covered

In year 8 boys are able to learn and investigate the following events:

• 1509-1175 (ii)
• Society – The Witch Craze
• English Civil War
• Monarchy and political change – 1160-1750
• Jacobite’s

Year 9

Key Topics Covered

In year 9 boys are introduced to the GCSE topics from the AQA syllabus:

• 1745-1900
  • Local Study – Saltaire
• 1901-2000
  • World War I
  • British Empire – India
  • Rise of Hitler in Germany
  • World War II
  • Holocaust
  • The Cold War
  • An aspect of post 1945 British History
• A study of a significant society or issue – Civil Rights in USA