Year 7
Term 1
What is History?
The Norman conquest
The Welsh princes and the conquest of Wales
“Our World”
Term 2
“Our World”
The Medieval Church
King John and the Magna Carta
Castles
Term 3
The Black Death
Mexico project
Medieval manor/towns
Year 8
Term 1
The Tudors and Stuarts
The Spanish Armada
Witchcraft
Term 2
The voyages of discovery
Native Americans
Slavery
Term 3
The Aztecs
The American frontier
Year 9
Term 1
The Industrial Revolution
19th Century Crime e.g. Jack the Ripper
9/11
Term 2
Significant events and people of the 20th Century e.g. Pearl Harbour
The Titanic
World War I
Term 3
World War II
Nazi Germany
American Popular Culture
Ways in which parents can help:
- Encourage pupils to complete homework and use Google Classroom in an effective and appropriate manner.
- Help to ensure work is copied up and that pupils act on feedback when necessary e.g. completion of unfinished tasks.
- Pupils should try to develop their wider knowledge when possible. This can be achieved through an encouragement of wider reading and research e.g. historical documentaries, online reading material and historical articles.
Useful websites:
- BBC Bitesize
- BBC History
- BBC Schools: History
- Spartacus Educational
Useful books/magazines/publications:
- BBC History Magazine
- Medieval Minds, Think through History series by Byrom, Counsell and Riley.
- Modern Minds: The Twentieth Century World, Think through History series by Byrom, Counsell Gorman, Peaple and Riley.
- In Search of History, 1485-1714 by J.F. Aylett.
