KS3 & KS4 history curriculum

This unit uses and builds on various units that deal with change and continuity from key stages 1, 2 and 3. It develops and reinforces pupils' big picture of the past that they have established in thematic units about seafarers and women. It also enriches and consolidates the majority of the units they studied at key stage 3, which focused on the medieval, early modern and modern worlds. This unit prepares pupils for the historic environment, where their thematic knowledge is consolidated and enriched by looking at a single place at a particular time in great detail.

1. The arrival of the Vikings
2. The Danish conquest
3. The Norman conquest (1066)
4. Angevin Empire
5. The Hundred Years' War
6. Impact of conquest and settlement on medieval Britain
7. The colonisation of North America
8. The Transatlantic Slave Trade
9. The War of Independence
10. Huguenot migration
11. Ulster Plantations and Highland Clearances
12. Factors causing westward migration
13. The origins of British rule in India
14. The Indian Rebellion
15. The impact of British rule in India
16. The scramble for Africa
17. Cecil Rhodes and the Boer War
18. What sources can tell us about the expansion of Empire
19. Irish migration to Britain in the 19th century
20. Jewish migration to Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries
21. Movement within the British Empire
22. The impact of imperial propaganda in the 19th century
23. The impact of the World Wars on migration to and from Britain
24. Impact of empire on migration in and out of Britain
25. The end of the British Empire in the 20th century
26. Post war migration to Britain: The Windrush generation
27. Post war migration to Britain: Migration from East Africa
28. Post war migration to Britain: The Falklands
29. The impact of the EU on migrant experiences in Britain
30. Experience of post-WW2 migrants in Britain

• An working knowledge of some of the major political, religious, social and economic developments that have taken place in Britain over the last c1000 years
• Familiarity with the second order concepts of change and continuity
• Familiarity with the second order concepts of cause and consequence