History Curriculum Overview

History – 5 Year Overview

Curriculum intent - The study of the past; including from different perspectives, to develop the skills and knowledge for
a global understanding of human life today and in the future.

Year 7 HT1 HT2 HT3 HT4 HT5 HT6
Class of 2025 Anglo Saxon and 1066 – The year of How did William The importance Tudors – The rule Elizabethan Society
Class of 2025 – Viking England. change – Battle of control England? and conflict caused and reign of Henry
Year 8 Curriculum and his children USA 1900-Present
Year 8 – Class of Stuart England – Hastings. First World War by Religion. Holocaust – With Breadth Study
2024 Curriculum The consequences How did Second World War
and change of Civil Industrialisation Second World War comparison to USA 1900-Present
Year 9 change the lives of Holocaust – With modern genocide. Breadth Study
War people in England? Medicine – comparison to
Year 10 How did First World War Transition Unit – Events that History King John – Why is
Industrialisation How has Medicine modern genocide. remembers he seen as a ‘Bad
Year 11 change the lives of Medicine – progressed from King’ – The reign of
people in England? Transition Unit – 1700-Present? What was life like in Fighting Overseas John 1199-1216
Medicine – How much change Medieval England – 1189-1216 – The
Transition Unit – really happened American West – fight for Jerusalem How did Germany
How did Medieval The ultimate Transition Unit – and Normandy change after
Medicine stay the during the Richard and John WW1? The trials
same? Renaissance? decline of the lives How did the First and tribulations of
American West – of Native How did the First World War expand the Weimar
American West – Post Civil War Life World War expand Republic 1919-
How did the and the changes on Americans 1876- medical 1929
Expansion of settlement and 1895 medical advancements?
Native American advancements?
America impact Lives 1862-1876 How were people’s 1914-1918?
lives of Native lives changed in 1914-1918
Americans 1832- Consolidation of a Hitler’s Germany
dictatorship – How 1933-1939?
1862
The rise of the did Hitler
NSDAP – How did strengthen his
the Nazis rise from control on Germany

obscurity to 1933-1939
dictatorship?