The Joseph Rowntree School

KS3 - History

Curriculum Knowledge

 

Year 7: Students begin Y7 with an introduction to historical skills (chronology and causation), before beginning a chronological study of England from 1066. The year ends with a local focus; studying York through the ages, allowing us to cover pre-1066 History whilst learning about our city.

Year 8: Year 8 begins with the early modern history; looking at the Stuarts, English civil wars and continuing through to the end of the Industrial Revolution. As part of our focus on industry and Britain becoming more powerful, we spend HT4 studying slavery, considering our involvement and role in this, as well as learning about life as a slave and how it came to an end.

Year 9: Y9 begins with WW1 and continues chronologically to consider the inter-war years, causes of WW2, and then the USA 1900-2000. We spend HT6 looking in detail at post-WW1 Germany, in order to commence the GCSE content.

 

Skill Development

 

Subject Specific Skills:

  • Retention of chronological order of events
  • Source analysis – consider nature, origin and purpose

 

Wider Academic Skills / Attributes:

  • Critical thought and the ability to question and make judgements.
  • Creating and communicating a coherent argument

 

Personal Development - SMSC & Cultural Capital (Opportunities / Experiences)

 

  • History teaches students about important and significant events which have helped to create the world that students live in today.
  • Creating and communicating a coherent argument
  • Critical thought and the ability to question and make judgements.
  • Topics focussing on the changing nature of power and the development of a meaningful democracy.
  • Students encouraged to consider the diversity of our society, and how attitudes towards this have changed over time. 
  • Students develop an understanding of their local history, and are able to talk about how it fits into a national context.
  • Discussion of current affairs as a way to enhance personal understanding of the past.
  • A range of trips to enhance our students’ cultural capital eg. Y9 trip to the Holocaust Museum, trip to the Mining Museum.
Go Top