Norman England, c1066–1100

Military aspects:• Battle of Stamford Bridge

• Battle of Hastings

• Anglo-Saxon and Norman tactics

• military innovations, including cavalry and castles

Feudalism and government:

• the Anglo-Saxon and Norman aristocracies and societies

• military service

• justice and the legal

system such as ordeals

• ‘murdrum’

• Inheritance

• the Domesday Book.

Economic and social changes and their

consequences:

• Anglo-Saxon and Norman life

• including towns, villages, buildings, work, food,

roles and seasonal life

• Forest law

The Church

Historic Environment 2022

• location, function, structure, design

• how the design reflects the culture, values, fashions of the people at the time

• connected people

• connect important events & developments

Causes of

Norman Conquest

• including the death of Edward the Confessor,

• the claimants and claims

Establishing and maintaining control:

• the Harrying of the North

• Revolts, 1067–1075

• King William’s leadership and government

• William II and his inheritance

The Church

• Church-state relations

• William II and the Church

• the wealth of the Church

• relations with the Papacy

• the Investiture Controversy

Monasticism

• the Norman reforms, including the building of abbeys and monasteries

• monastic life

• learning; schools and education

• Latin usage and the vernacular

The Normans:

Conquest and Control

To Exams

Life under the Normans

Feudalism and government:

• roles, rights, and responsibilities

• landholding and lordship

• land distribution

• patronage

• Anglo-Saxon and Norman government systems

• the Anglo-Saxon Church before 1066

• Archbishop Lanfranc and reform of the English Church, including the building of churches and cathedrals

• Church organisation and courts

The Norman Church and monasticism

Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk

KS4 GCSE HISTORY To Your Future

Year 11 History

A Year to Succeed

Germany, 1890–1945: Democracy & Dictatorship

Impact of the First World War:

:• war weariness, economic problems

• defeat; the end of the monarchy

• post-war problems including reparations, the occupation of the Ruhr & hyperinflation

The Impact of the Depression:

• growth in support for the Nazis & other extremist parties (1928–1932)

• including the role of the SA

• Hitler’s appeal

The failure of

Weimar Democracy:• election results;

• the role of Papen and Hindenburg

• Hitler’s appointment as Chancellor

Economic changes:

• Goebbels, the use of propaganda & censorship

• Nazi culture

• repression & the police state & the roles of Himmler, the SS & Gestapo

• opposition & resistance, including White Rose group, Swing Youth, Edelweiss Pirates & July

1944 bomb plot

Kaiser Wilhelm & the difficulties of ruling Germany:

• the growth of parliamentary government

• the influence of Prussian militarism

• industrialisation

• social reform & the growth of socialism

• the domestic importance of the Navy Laws

Weimar Democracy: • political change and unrest,

1919–1923, including:

• Spartacists,

• Kapp Putsch

• the Munich Putsch;

The establishment of Hitler’s Dictatorship:

• benefits & drawbacks

• employment public works programmes

• rearmament

• self-sufficiency

• the impact of war on the economy & the German people, including bombing, rationing, labour shortages, refugees

Social policy & practice:

• reasons for policies, practices & their impact on women, young people & youth groups

• education

• control of churches & religion

• Aryan ideas, racial policy & persecution

• the Final Solution

Germany & the growth of democracy

To Exams

Germany & the Depression

Weimar Democracy:

• the extent of recovery

during the Stresemann era (1924–1929)

• economic developments including:

• the new currency,

• the Dawes Plan

• the Young Plan

• the impact of international agreements on recovery

• Weimar culture

• the Reichstag Fire

• the Enabling Act

• elimination of political opposition

• Elimination of trade unions

• Rohm & the Night of the Long Knives

• Hitler becomes Führer

The

experiences of

Germans under

the Nazis

Control:

KS4 GCSE HISTORY

Year 10 HistoryA Year to Lead

To Year 11

Conflict and Tension: The First World War, 1894–1918

The Alliance System:

:• the crises in Morocco (1905 & 1911)

• the crises in the Balkans (1908–1909), & their effects on international relations

The Schlieffen Plan:

• the reasons for the plan, its failure,

• including the Battle of Marne & its contribution to the stalemate

The Western Front:

• military tactics &

technology, including trench warfare

• the war of attrition

• key battles, Verdun, the Somme and Passchendaele, the reasons for, the events & significance of these battles

Changes in the

Allied Forces

• impact of the blockade

• abdication of the Kaiser

• armistice

• the contribution of Haig and Foch to Germany’s defeat

The Alliance System:

• the Triple Alliance

• Franco-Russian Alliance

• relations between the ‘Entente’ powers

Anglo-German rivalry:

• Britain & challenges to

Splendid Isolation

• Kaiser Wilhelm’s aims in foreign policy, including Weltpolitik

• colonial tensions

• European rearmament, including the Anglo-German naval race

The Wider War

• consequences of the Bolshevik Revolution & the withdrawal of Russia on Germany strategy

• the reasons for & impact of the entry of the USA into the war

Military developments in 1918 & their contribution to

Germany’s defeat

• the evolution of tactics & technology

• Ludendorff the German Spring Offensive

• the Allied advance during The Hundred Days

The causes of the

First World War

To Exams

The Stalemate

Outbreak of war:

• Slav nationalism & relations between Serbia & Austria-Hungary

• the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo & its consequences

• the July Crisis

• the Schlieffen Plan & Belgium

• reasons for the outbreak of hostilities & the escalation of the conflict

• the war on other fronts

• Gallipoli & its failure

• the events & significance of the war at sea, including Jutland, the U-Boat campaign and convoys

Ending the War

Germany surrenders:

KS4 GCSE HISTORY

Year 10 HistoryLead

• public health problems in industrial Britain;

• cholera epidemics;

• the role of public health reformers;

Improvements in Public Health:

Improvements in Public Health:

• local and national government involvement in public health improvement,

• the 1848 and 1875 Public Health Acts.

Modern treatment of disease:

• new diseases and treatments

• antibiotic resistance

• alternative treatments.

The impact of technology on

surgery:

• modern surgical methods including

• lasers

• radiation therapy

• keyhole surgery

Modern Public Health:

• the Beveridge Report & the Welfare State

• creation and development of the National Health Service

• costs, choices and the issues of healthcare in the 21st century

The development of Germ Theory & impact

on the treatment of disease in Britain

Modern treatment of disease:

• the development of the pharmaceutical industry; penicillin

• its discovery by Fleming, its development

The impact of war on surgery:

• plastic surgery;

• blood transfusions;

• X-rays;

• transplant surgery;

Modern Public Health:

• the importance of Booth, Rowntree, and the Boer War

• the Liberal social reforms

• the impact of two world wars on public health, poverty and housing

To Exams

A revolution in medicine: Industrial Period

Modern Medicine:C20th & C21st

• the importance of Pasteur, Robert Koch and microbe hunting

• Pasteur and vaccination

• Paul Ehrlich and magic bullets

• everyday medical treatments and remedies

A revolution in surgery

• anaesthetics, including Simpson and chloroform;

• antiseptics, including Lister and carbolic acid;

• surgical procedures; aseptic surgery.

KS4 GCSE HISTORY

Britain Health & the People

Year 9 HistoryAspire

To Year 10

Medical progress:

• the contribution of Christianity to medical progress and treatment

• hospitals

Public Health in the Middle Ages:

• towns and monasteries

• the Black Death in Britain, beliefs about the causes, treatment and prevention

The impact of the Renaissance on Britain:

• challenge to medical authority in anatomy physiology and surgery

• the work of Paré

• opposition to change

Dealing with disease

• traditional and new methods of treatments

• quackery

• methods of treating disease, plague

Prevention of disease

• inoculation

• Edward Jenner

• Vaccination

• opposition to change

Medieval medicine:

• natural &supernatural approaches to medicine

• Hippocratic & Galenic ideas, methods and treatments

• the medieval doctor training, beliefs about cause of illness

Medical progress:

• the nature and importance of Islamic medicine and surgery

• surgery in medieval times, ideas and techniques

The impact of the Renaissance on

Britain:

• challenge to medical authority in anatomy, physiology and surgery

• the work of Vesalius

• opposition to change

The impact of the Renaissance on Britain:

• challenge to medical authority in anatomy physiology and surgery

• the work of William Harvey

• opposition to change

Dealing with disease

• the growth of hospitals

• changes to the training and status of surgeons and physicians

• the work of John Hunter

To Exams

Medicine stands still

Medieval Period

To a revolution in medicine: Industrial Period

The beginnings of change:Renaissance Period

KS4 GCSE HISTORY

Britain Health & the People

Year 9 HistoryA Year to Aspire

Enquiry 11: What was the British experience of the

Western Front?

• What was trench warfare?

• What were the weapons of war?

• Who were the soldiers of the Empire?

Enquiry 12: How did the WWI change Britain?

• What was the roaring Twenties?

• Why was Ireland divided in two in the 1920s?

• What were the Hungry Thirties?

Enquiry 14: How should we remember the

Holocaust?• What was the Holocaust?

• What was the Final Solution?

Enquiry 16: Why was there a Cold War?

• What is the difference between capitalism and communism?

• Why did USSR blockade Berlin?

• What was the Berlin Airlift?

Enquiry 18: Why did people emigrate to Britain after

the war?

• Why should we remember the Empire Windrush?

• What are the benefits of multiculturism to Britain?

Enquiry 10: Why did Britain go to war in 1914?

• Why did the First World War begin?

• Why did people join up?

How did countries try to avoid more war?

• What was the Treaty of Versailles?

• What was the League of Nations?

Enquiry 13: Why did War break out in 1939?

• What is the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship?

• What is fascism and communism?

• Who was Hitler?

• Why was the another war?

• What were the key turning points in the Second World War?

Enquiry 15: What was the atomic legacy in the

post war world?

• Why did Japan attack Pearl Harbour?

• Why did the war turn atomic?

• Why did the USA use the atomic bomb?

Enquiry 17: What were the Cold War Hot spots?

• What was the Korean War?

• What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• What was the Vietnam War?

To GCSE studies

Year 8 HistoryEndeavour

To Exams

To Year 9

Enquiry 2: What was the Industrial Revolution?

• How did we move from home to factory working?

• How did factories create towns?

• How were children treated in factories?

• How were factory working conditions improved?

Enquiry 3: What made Victorian towns stink?

• Who improved public health?

• How divided was society?

• How was law and order kept?

• How did the first police force begin?

• What did Elizabeth fry say about Durham prison?

Enquiry 5: What was the Age of Revolution?

• What was the American Revolution?

• What was the consequences of the French Revolution?

• What was the Battle of Trafalgar?

• What was the Battle of Waterloo?

Enquiry 7: How had Britain changed by the

Victorian times?

• How close was England to a revolution in 1848?

• Did the lives of women improve?

• What were Victorian schools like?

• How did the high street grow?

Enquiry 9: Did the suffragettes win the vote?

• Who were the suffragettes?

• Emily Davison: Martyr or protester?

• How did women win the vote?

Enquiry 1: Was the Glorious Revolution really a revolution?

• What was the Glorious Revolution?

• What was the consequences of the Glorious Revolution?

• Why did the Georgians rule Britain?

• Why was Bonnie Prince Charlie a threat to the Georgians?

What was the Industrial Revolution?

• What was black gold?

• How did industry change transport?

• How did the Feudal System work?

• Age of invention: What was the most significant?

Enquiry 4: Why did Britain abolish the

Slave Trade?

• What was the Slave Trade?

• What were conditions like on the slave ship?

• What was life like on the plantation?

• Why was slavery abolished?

Enquiry 6: How did Britain gain her

Empire?

• What was India like before the British Empire?

• How did Britain invade India?

• Was the Indian mutiny a war of independence?

• What was the jewel in the crown?

Enquiry 8: What did the new century bring?

• What was Britain like in 1901?

• How was poverty and public health tackled?

Further Year 8 studies

Year 8 HistoryA Year of Endeavour

To Exams

How did the British Empire begin?

• Why did the British Empire begin?

• How did the British Empire begin?

• Who were the key individuals in the growth of the Empire?

Who was William Shakespeare?

• What were Tudor theatres like?

• Why did Shakespeare become famous?

Enquiry 13: How can we explain the

English Civil War?

• Why did the English start fighting each other?

• Who fought in the Civil War?

• What was the New Model Army?

• Why was Charles I executed?

Enquiry 14: Who was the Merry Monarch?

• What was the Restoration

• Who was the Merry Monarch?

What happened in the Great Fire of London?

• Why did the Great Fire of London spread so quickly?

• How was London rebuilt after the fire?

Enquiry 10: How far was Elizabethan England a

‘golden age’?

• What happened in the Elizabethan Age?

• Why did Elizabeth execute Mary, Queen of Scots?

• Why did England cheer in 1588?

• What did Elizabeth look like?

Enquiry 11: What was life like in Tudor times?

• Who was in Tudor society?

• What were Tudor schools like?

• How did the Tudors have fun?

• Why were the poor punished?

Enquiry 12: Were the Stuarts really slimy?

• Why do we remember the 5th of November?

• Were there really witches in England?

• Why do Americans speak English?

What was the Interregnum?

• Why was Christmas banned during the Interregnum?

• Should there be a statue of Cromwell?

What was the Great Plague of London?

• What was the Great Plague of London?

• How did they try to stop the plague in 1665?

Year 7 HistoryDiscovery

To Year 8To Exams

Enquiry 2: How did an upstart French Duke

conquer England?

• What was the succession crisis?

• What happened at the Battle of Stamford Bridge?

• Why did the Normans win the Battle of Hastings?

Enquiry 3: How religious were people in the Middle Ages?

• What was life like for the Monks & Nuns?

• What were the Crusades?

• What was the impact of the Crusades

Enquiry 5: How powerful was the King? Rule Makers & Breakers

• Why was Becket murdered?

• Why is the Magna Carta important?

• How did Parliament begin?

• Why did the Peasants Revolt in 1381?

Enquiry 7: Why was England at war with her

neighbours in the Middle Ages?

• How did England try to conquer Wales & Scotland?

• How did England try to control Ireland?

• Why was England at war with France?

Enquiry 9: What was the Age of Discovery?

• What was the Age of Discovery?

• What was the Renaissance?

• How did new discoveries and inventions change Britain?

Enquiry 1: What do we know about Britain's

early history?• What is the Story of Britain?

• What do we know about Britain’s early history?

• Who settled in Britain?

How did William secure the crown?

• Why did William build castles?

• How did William crush the Harrying of the North?

• How did the Feudal System work?

• What was the purpose of the Domesday Book?

Enquiry 4: What was life like in the Middle

Ages?• How did castles change?

• What was village life like?

• What was town life like?

Enquiry 6: Was it all muck and misery in the

Middle Ages?

• How dirty was the Middle Ages?

• What was the Black Death?

• Who healed the sick?

Enquiry 8: Why was there a crisis in Christendom?

• What did Protestants protest about?

• Why did Henry VIII break with Rome?

• What was the Mid-Tudor Crisis?

Further Year 7 studies

Year 7 HistoryA Year of Discovery