History Long term plan – LWS Academy

A specialist SEN school for secondary aged boys with Social, Emotional and Mental Health needs

	Autumn 1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Year 7	Baseline Assessment (Chronology & Knowledge) The best time to live (Change and Continuity) Assessment – When was the best time to live?	Norman Conquest (causes and consequences) Assessment – Why did William win the Battle of Hastings?	Life in Medieval England (Change and Continuity) Assessment – Write your own Plague Story	How bad was King John? (Interpretations) Assessment – How accurate is Disney’s Robin Hood?	Religion in the Early Modern Period (Chronology & Diversity) Assessment – Tudor rollercoaster	Life in Tudor and Stuart England (Change and Continuity) Assessment – news report on the Great Fire of London (written or filmed)
H/W Project
Year 8	French Revolution (Cause and Consequence) Assessment – Why did the French people revolt?	British Empire (Interpretations and Significance) Assessment – Design your own Empire Plate	Slave Trade (significance) Assessment – How important was William Wilberforce in ending the Slave Trade?	Victorian Britain (Sources) Assessment – What was life like for Children in Victorian Britain?	World War I (Causes and sources) Assessment – What did a soldier experience in WWI?	World War II (Diversity, Source and Significance) Assessment – Were the USA justified in dropping the Atomic Bomb?
H/W Project

Year 9	Democracy v Dictatorship (Diversity and interpretations) Assessment – How far does Animal Farm reflect Communist Russia?	Holocaust and Genocides (Sources, significance and Change and Continuity) Assessment – How should we remember the Holocaust?	Assassination of JFK (Sources, interpretations and Diversity) Assessment – Year 9 Mock	GCSE Paper 1: The USA Nation of Contrasts 1910-1929 Immigration Religion and race Crime and Corruption	Paper 1: The USA Nation of Contrasts 1910-1929 Popular Entertainment Women Boom and Bust	Paper 2: The Development of Germany, 1919-1991 Weimar Germany Life in Nazi Germany (1930s)
H/W Project
Year 10	Paper 2: The Development of Germany, 1919-1991 WWII Cold War Fall of the Berlin Wall	Revision and Mock exam (USA and Germany)	Paper 2: Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day Causes of Crime Nature of Crime Enforcing Law and Order	Paper 2: Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day Combatting Crime Methods of punishment	Paper 2: Changes in Crime and Punishment in Britain, c.500 to the present day Attitudes to Crime and punishment Site Study (2020 & 2021 – Botany Bay)	Paper 1: The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603 Government Problems of religion Spanish Armada
Year 11	Revision and Year 11 Mock exam (Paper 2)	Paper 1: The Elizabethan Age, 1558-1603 Puritan Threat Rich v Poor Popular Entertainment	Revision	Revision	Revision	EXAMS

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