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 society
2. The Anglo-Saxon monarchy
3. Earldoms and local government in Anglo-Saxon England
4. The Anglo-Saxon economy and the role of the Church
5. Edward the Confessor and the House of Godwin
6. The uprising against Earl Tostig Godwinson
7. Claimants to the throne in 1066
8. The battles of Gate Fulford and Stamford Bridge
9. The Battle of Hastings
10. Reasons for William’s victory at the Battle of Hastings
11. The submission of the earls in 1066
12. Rewarding followers and the Marcher earldoms
13. Motte-and-bailey castles
14. The Northern and East Anglian rebellions
15. The Harrying of the North
16. The legacy of Anglo-Saxon resistance
17. The revolt of the earls in 1075
18. The feudal system in Norman England
19. The Anglo-Norman Church
20. Change and continuity in Norman England
21. The significance of Domesday Book
22. The Norman aristocracy
23. Bishop Odo of Bayeux
24. William I and his successors

• 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.