KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on pupils' knowledge of England and Britain from the Stone Age to the early modern period that they built in key stages 2 and 3. This unit prepares pupils for the units they study in year 11, where some of the same themes relating to power, governance and religion are touched on again in both the period study and the modern depth study.

1. Anglo-Saxon kingship
2. Edward the Confessor, the Godwins and William of Normandy
3. Edward the Confessor's death and the claimants to the throne
4. Battle of Stamford Bridge
5. Battle of Hastings
6. Reasons for William's victory in 1066
7. The submission of London in 1066
8. Establishing control: new earls and earldoms
9. Establishing control: motte-and-bailey castles
10. Revolts against William I, 1067-1075
11. The Harrying of the North, 1069-70
12. William's consolidation of power
13. Key figures in the government of Norman England
14. The Norman feudal system
15. Land and inheritance in Norman England
16. Domesday Book
17. Justice and the legal system in Norman England
18. Continuity and change in Norman government
19. Life in towns in Norman England
20. Life in villages in Norman England
21. The built environment of Norman England
22. Work and diet in Norman England
23. Changing laws in Norman England: Forest law
24. Daily life in Norman England
25. The Anglo-Saxon Church
26. Lanfranc's reforms
27. The king and the Church in Norman England
28. The Reform Papacy
29. Norman reforms of English monasticism
30. The Norman Church

• An overview knowledge of England between the 8th and 11th centuries, with a focus on the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, Viking invasion and settlement, and the creation of Anglo-Saxon England.