History
Curriculum Intent
In History, we want students to become independent thinkers and to develop their interest in the past, and to question the ideas and explanations of the past as they begin to form their own views of their experiences in the present.
All people and peoples are living histories. Communities speak languages that have been passed down from people before us. We live in societies with a tradition, culture, religion that have been passed down through generations of our ancestors. We use technologies and smart phones and watches that we ourselves have not created. They have been developed over time. This is what has always fascinated me about History – everything has a story, and it is our responsibility as historians to tell those stories of the past
Students at McKee are being developed into lifelong learners through a meaningful, varied and exciting curriculum. We allow students to access real history from real people to allow them to understand that history is all around us and that we all contribute to the world around us.
Curriculum Map
| Term | Key Stage 3 – Year 1 | Key Stage 3 – Year 2 | ||
| HT 1 | Importance of water through time
Norman Conquest Castles |
Sugar, Empire and Slavery
Britain 1750-1901 East India Company |
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| HT 2 | Middle Ages – what mattered to them?
1348 Black Death Who had power in the Middle Ages? Renaissance and Reformation |
Impact of Industrial Revolution
How did Britain colonise Australia? Peterloo |
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| HT 3 | Reformation and Changes 1450-1750
100 years war War of the Roses |
Victorians – attitude to family
What mattered to British rulers in India WW1 |
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| HT 4 | Why was exploration important – Christopher Columbus
Da Vinci |
Inter-war years
Women’s suffrage movement |
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| HT 5 | Tudors
Who was the Greatest Tudor Monarch? Was it really a golden age for Elizabeth?
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20th Century – Traumatic Century
WW2 The Blitz How should Churchill be remembered? Holocaust |
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| HT 6 | The Stuarts
English Civil War Life under Cromwell |
Our World Today
Equal Rights Cold War McDonald’s story Impact of Internet Terrorism |
Curriculum Justification
Curriculum Development
To implement more historical literacy into the curriculum at both KS3 and KS4. To plan and implement further local history into the curriculum at KS3 and for students to visit various parts of the community and explore the histories of the past.
