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Autumn Term

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AUTUMN HALF TERM 1

Topic: Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?

Key knowledge:

  • Base line assessment and the start of Year 7 testing prior knowledge and skills
  • Edward the Confessor and the problems brought about by his death.
  • The contenders for the English crown – Harald Hardrada, William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson.
  • The Battle of Stamford Bridge.
  • Events of the Battle of Hastings, including why William won.

Key skills:

  • Chronology and causation.
  • Structuring paragraphs using the PEE method of writing.
  • Selecting appropriate historical evidence to support causes.
  • Making supported judgements on the most important reason for William’s win at Hastings.

Key specialist terminology:

  • Evidence
  • Explanation
  • Medieval
  • Strength
  • Weakness
  • Battle
  • Shield wall
  • Witan
  • Succession

Beyond the Classroom:

  • Proof-reading class work.
  • Revising specialist terminology to further classroom understanding.
  • Relevant further reading on Google Classroom e.g. Was William the Conqueror a War Criminal? (History Magazine, Nov. 2019)
  • Visit the following website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zshtyrd/articles/z9mw8hv

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

Students will write an essay about the reasons why William won the Battle of Hastings.

Students will be expected to use the PEE method to structure paragraphs to ensure that reasons are explained in full and will need to select evidence from knowledge learnt to support these paragraphs. Students will be encouraged to make a judgement.

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Topic: How did William keep control in England?

Key knowledge:

  • The feudal system
  • The Domesday Book (William’s survey of all of England)
  • Motte and Bailey castles
  • The Harrying of the North

Key skills:

  • Analysing sources
  • Making supported judgements on the usefulness of a source
  • Selecting appropriate evidence to support source analysis
  • Knowledge recall

Key specialist terminology:

  • Infer (making inferences)
  • Primary source
  • Provenance
  • Feudal
  • Domesday Book
  • Harrying
  • Motte and Bailey
  • Defending
  • Trebuchet
  • Defence
  • Power
  • Control

Beyond the Classroom:

  • Proof-reading school work
  • Revisiting specialist key terms
  • Revise knowledge (e.g. by recalling facts from memory or making flashcards)
  • Further reading (see Google Classroom)
  • Visit Tower of London in Spring term - https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/schools/self-led-school-visits/ Further information about Norman castles and England can be found here:

https://www.hrp.org.uk/schools/learning-resources/norman-castles-map/#gs.3ml7pd

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

Students will answer a knowledge test of key information learnt throughout the topic. Students will analyse a study a source to make inferences about life in medieval England. They will analyse a second source using their own knowledge to reach an overall judgement on usefulness including analysis of its content and its provenance.

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SPRING HALF TERM 1

Topic: Why did Thomas Becket die?

Key knowledge:

  • The life of a medieval peasant
  • Medieval beliefs about heaven and hell
  • The importance of religion to medieval law
  • The relationship between Henry II and Thomas Becket
  • The murder of Thomas Becket

Key skills:

  • Causation.
  • Structuring paragraphs using the PEE method of writing.
  • Selecting appropriate historical evidence to support causes.
  • Making supported judgements on the most important reason for Thomas Becket’s death
  • Knowledge recall

Key specialist terminology:

  • Excommunication
  • Tithing
  • Cathedral
  • Archbishop
  • Pilgrimage
  • Religious authority
  • Heaven
  • Hell
  • Purgatory

Beyond the Classroom:

  • Further reading (see Google Classroom)
  • Visit St Peter and St Paul’s Church, in Chaldon, to view the historic Doom paintings:

https://www.surreyhills.org/surrey-hills-60/st-peter-and-st-pauls-church-chaldon/

  • A timeline of Becket’s life and legacy can be studied here:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/thomas-becket-murder-and-making-saint/timeline-thomas-beckets-life-and-legacy

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

Students will be given both a knowledge test and a skills based assessment. The skills based assessment will require them to write an essay on the causes of Thomas Becket’s death. The essay will use explanation and analysis and will reach a judgement supported by evaluation.

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SPRING HALF TERM 2

Topic: The Crown vs The State: King John and Magna Carta

Key knowledge:

  • The role of a medieval king
  • Who held the power in the middle ages?
  • The Kings of the Middle Ages
  • Why were barons dissatisfied with life under King John?
  • Magna Carta

Key skills:

  • Historical interpretations
  • Causation
  • Making a supported judgement on which interpretation is most convincing
  • Knowledge recall
  • Case Studies – Medieval Queens – Matilda and Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Key specialist terminology:

  • Quarrel
  • Inheritance tax
  • Retaliate
  • Foreign policy
  • Mercenaries
  • Consulted
  • Empire
  • Royal Court
  • Magna Carta
  • Interpretation

Beyond the Classroom:

  • Revisit key terms
  • Revise key knowledge
  • Visit the site of the signing of Magna Carta at Runneymede

https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/runnymede/features/memorials-at-runnymede

  • Wider reading on Google Classroom
  • Further information can be found here

https://magnacarta.cmp.uea.ac.uk/

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

There will be a knowledge test which will test students’ knowledge recall. Students will also be required to reach a supported judgement on which of two interpretations they find most convincing including an analysis of the causes of the disputes between the King and his barons.

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SUMMER HALF TERM 1

Topic: Later Middle Ages – Society and Culture

Key knowledge:

  • Life in the later Middle Ages (life in towns, the countryside, travel, entertainment)
  • The Black Death
  • The Peasants’ Revolt
  • Medieval Queens – Matilda

Key skills:

  • Historical significance including by establishing links between the Black Death and the Peasants’ Revolt
  • Case Studies – Black Death and Peasant Revolt

Key specialist terminology:

  • Bubonic
  • Pneumonic
  • Pandemic
  • Epidemic
  • Revolt
  • Rebellion
  • Flagellants

Beyond the Classroom:

  • Proof-reading class work.
  • Revising specialist terminology to further classroom understanding.
  • Relevant further reading on Google Classroom
  • An overview of knowledge and a quiz on the Black Death can be found here

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/zqjwxnb/articles/zdkssk7

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

After this topic there will be an end of year assessment which will cover all of the content looked at during the academic year. This will include a knowledge test of up to 30 questions and a skills based test which will assess students proficiency in the skills learned during the year (sources, interpretations, causation, making supported judgements, writing essays).

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Topic: Medicine through Time

Key knowledge:

  • Medieval treatment and disease
  • Hippocrates and Galen
  • 4 Humours
  • Black Death 1348 and the Great Plague 1665
  • Renaissance medicine Vesalius, Harvey and Sydenham
  • Edward Jenner – Small pox vaccination
  • Public Health Act 1875 - Chadwick/Snow and Bazelgette
  • Surgery - Lister and Simpson
  • Trench Warfare - Thomas Splint - X-Ray
  • Alexander Fleming - Penicillin WW2

Key skills:

  • Understanding chronology
  • Explaining change and continuity through a period of history
  • Diversity and ethnicity
  • British Values
  • Historical interpretations
  • Causation
  • Progression of ideas of disease. Cause, treatment, and prevention.

Key specialist terminology:

  • Four humours
  • Hippocratic Oath
  • Miasma
  • Dissection
  • Anatomical
  • Plague Doctor
  • Vaccinations
  • Inoculation
  • Prevention
  • Waterborne
  • Antiseptic/Anaesthetic
  • Modern warfare
  • Culture

Beyond the Classroom:

How will we assess the knowledge, understanding and skills taught in this topic?

Change and Continuity – TBC

Year 7

Summer Term

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