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 Viking conquest
2. Case study: Viking York
3. The Norman Conquest
4. Jewish migration in medieval England
5. Merchants and craftspeople in medieval England
6. Migration in medieval England
7. England in the early modern period
8. Case study: Flemish and Walloon migrants in Sandwich and Canterbury
9. African migrants in the early British Empire
10. Jewish migrants in the early modern period
11. Case study: Huguenots
12. Palatine refugees in the early 1700s
13. Migration to early modern England
14. The Industrial Revolution and internal migration
15. European migration in the 18th and 19th centuries
16. The British Empire and migration to Britain in the 18th and 19th centuries
17. Case study: Liverpool in the 19th century
18. Case study: Jewish migrants in the East End
19. Migration to 18th and 19th century Britain
20. The World Wars and colonial migrants
21. Post-war migration to Britain
22. The end of empire, the Commonwealth and changing patterns of migration
23. Race relations in 20th century Britain
24. The EU and changing patterns of migration
25. Refugees and asylum seekers in modern Britain
26. Case studies: Bristol and Leicester
27. Migration to modern Britain

• A 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