HISTORY - What You Will Learn

Key Stage 3

The following page gives details about what pupils will learn at Key Stage 3 from Year 7 to Year 9. For Key Stage 4 information click on the Key Stage 4 image in the top right corner.

Pupils follow an adapted version of the QCA (Qualifications and Curriculum Authority) scheme of work for History. The units are then broken up into key questions.

Full details of the scheme of work: QCA History scheme

Number of lessons per week: 2 lessons (2 hours)

There are no statutory national examinations in Key Stage 3 History, although end of year examinations may be set by the History department in Years 7, 8 and 9.

Scheme of Work

Year 7

• Unit 1 Introductory Unit
• Unit 2 Medieval Monarchs
• Unit 3 Medieval People
• Unit 4 Medieval Church
• Unit 5 Elizabeth I
• Unit 7 Images of an Age 1500-1750
• Unit 22 The Role of the Individual (Eleanor of Aquitane)

View Year 7 Key Questions

Year 8

• Unit 8 The Civil Wars
• Unit 9 From Glorious Revolution to the ‘45
• Unit 10 France 1789-94
• Unit 11 Industrial Changes
• Unit 12 Middle Class Life 1900
• Unit 15 Black Peoples of the Americas
• Unit 22 The Role of the Individual (Dick Turpin)

View Year 8 Key Questions

Year 9

• Unit 14 The British Empire
• Unit 16 The Franchise
• Unit 18 Twentieth Century Conflicts
• Unit 19 The Holocaust
• Unit 20 Twentieth Century Medicine
• Unit 21 Scientific Discoveries
• Unit 22 The Role of the Individual (Winston Churchill)

Year 9 Key Questions

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