Scheme of Work – History
Autumn Term 13 WEEKS Spring Term 10 WEEKS Summer Term 12 WEEKS
Year 3 What is History? (2) Ancient Egypt (6) The Iron Age (7)
● AD and BC ● The Pharoah ● War and invasion
1 hour per ● Timelines ● Gods ● Indo-Europeans
week ● Archaeology ● Pyramids ● The Mycenaeans
● Tutankhamun ● The Ilyad
No of The time of the dinosaurs (4) ● Life for nobles ● The Odyssey
weeks in ● Where they came from ● Life for peasants
brackets ● How we know about them ● School and playtime The Greek Dark Ages (5)
● Charles Darwin ● The Rosetta Stone ● The Dorian invasions
● The Greek view of creation
The Stone Age (4) The Spread of Civilisation (4) ● Greek religion
● Prehistoric Man ● India ● The Olympic Games
● The ice ages ● China
● Stone Age Britain ● Crete
● Stone Henge ● Trade
The Bronze Age (3)
● Mesopotamia
● Sumerian gods, priests and kings
● The invention of writing
● Burial Places
FT: NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
Autumn Term 13 WEEKS Spring Term 10 WEEKS Summer Term 12 WEEKS
Year 4 What is History? (2) Romans (5) Saxons (6)
● Chronology ● Who were the Romans ● British peoples
1 hour per ● Types or sources ● Life in the republic ● Divided land
week ● Rome’s domination of Italy ● Kings, monks and missionaries
Greeks (8) ● Civil war ● High Kings and conquerors
No of ● Who were the Greeks? ● Roman entertainment ● Alfred the Great
weeks in ● The wars with Persia ● Roman emperors
brackets ● Cities and civil wars Vikings (6)
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● Life in 5 Century Athens Romans in Britain (5) ● Life in Viking Britain
● Macedonia and Alexander the Great ● Britain and Rome ● Fighting for England
● Romans in Britain ● The last Saxon Kings
Romans (3) ● Boudicca
● Romulus and Remus ● The eagle of the ninth
● The origins of Rome
EC: ROMAN PLAY FT: YORK AND JORVIK VIKING CENTRE
Year 5 What is History? (3) The consolidation of Norman Power (6) The Medieval World (7)
● Primary and Secondary sources ● Saxon reactions to the conquest ● Mongol Dynasty
2 hours per ● Bias in History ● Saxon rebellions ● Timbuktu
week ● The Harrying of the North ● Aztecs
Norman Conquest (10) ● Castles ● The Holy Roman Empire
No of ● What makes a good medieval King? ● Feudal System
weeks in ● Who should become King? Medieval Warfare (5)
brackets ● Battle of Stamford Bridge Medieval Monarchs (4) ● How accurate are modern day computer
● Battle of Hastings ● Murder in the Forest games?
● Bayeux Tapestry as reliable source ● The White Ship disaster Civil War: ● Design your own medieval war game
Stephen and Matilda
FT: MOUNTFITCHET CASTLE
Autumn Term 13 WEEKS Spring Term 10 WEEKS Summer Term 12 WEEKS
Year 6 What is History? (4) Crusades (7) King John (6)
● Primary and Secondary sources ● Richard I ● Character investigation
1 hour per ● Using clues to recreate the past ● Saladin ● History through film
week ● Siege of Acre ● Loss of Normandy
Henry II (9) ● Battle of Jaffa ● Magna Carta
No of ● Justice system in England
weeks in ● Church courts Robin Hood (3) Medieval Life (6)
brackets ● Trial by jury ● Myth or legend? ● Why were medieval towns so smelly?
● Thomas Becket ● Who was Robin Hood? ● Town government
● Murder of Becket ● The dangers of living in towns
● Medieval women
● The Jews in medieval society
FT: CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
Year 7 What is History? (4) 100 years war with France (7) Black Death contd....
● Historical skills and concepts ● Background to English claim on French
1 hour per ● Cause and consequence throne Peasants’ Revolt (5)
week ● Battle of Sluys ● Statute of Labourers 1351
Edward I Uniting the Kingdom (9) ● Longbow v Crossbow ● Poll Taxes of late 1370s
No of ● Edward and Wales ● Crecy ● Wat Tyler’s march on London
weeks in ● Castles in Wales ● Black Prince and Battle of Poitiers
brackets ● Edward and Scotland End of 100 years war (2)
● John Balliol Black Death (6) ● Agincourt campaign
● William Wallace ● Origins and main symptoms ● Joan of Arc
● Robert the Bruce ● Extracts from Boccacio
● Edward’s death ● Effects on Britain Mystery of the Princes in the Tower (2)
FT: MUSEUM OF LONDON
Autumn Term 13 WEEKS Spring Term 10 WEEKS Summer Term 12 WEEKS
Year 8 What is History? (4) Reformation in Europe (5) Tudor explorers (5)
● The big ideas ● Martin Luther ● Raleigh
2 hours per ● Themes in History ● 95 suggestions ● Drake
week ● Spread of Protestantism ● Columbus
The Tudors (9)
No of ● Henry VII’s rise to power English Reformation (5) Religious turmoil (7)
weeks in ● Wars of the Roses ● Henry’s Great Matter ● Edward VI
brackets ● Securing the throne ● Reformation ● Mary I
● Henry VIII – the man ● Love, money, faith or power? ● Elizabeth I
● Henry’s wives ● Gunpowder plot
● Life in Tudor England ● English Civil War
FT: HAMPTON COURT
Year 9 What is History? (3) Transport Revolution (5) Britain in the world 1750-1900 (7)
● Informing the future ● Roads ● Loss of the American colonies
1 hour per ● Can history help us to deal with ● Canals ● India
week terrorism? ● Railways ● Africa
● War with China
No of Black Peoples of the Americas (6) Industrial Revolution (5) ● Life in the colonies for rulers and ruled
weeks in ● Origins of the slave trade ● Factories
brackets ● Triangular trade ● Growth of Towns Introduction to GCSE course (5)
● Plantation Life ● Social unrest ● Europe 1900-1914
● American Civil War ● The Reform Acts ● Germany
● Abolition of the slave trade ● Britain
● Eastern Europe
Agricultural Revolution (4)
● Strip farming to Enclosure
● Selective breeding
● Mechanisation
FT: IRONBRIDGE GORGE
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