History – Assessment Map

Year 7

WA1

Title of assessment:  Norman Conquest

Skills assessed: chronological understanding, significance, cause & consequence

Identify, describe, explain significance, identify/ infer information in sources

Key learning:

What is History?

The Romans & What was life like in Roman Britain?

How did William conquer England & keep control?

WA2

Title of assessment: Medieval life

Skills assessed: Chronological understanding, significance, cause & consequence

Identify, describe, explain significance, identify/ infer information in sources

Key learning: what life was like during Middle Ages, Castles, Black death

WA3

Title of assessment: Native Americans

Skills assessed: chronological understanding, cause & consequence, significance Identify, describe, explain significance, identify/ infer information in sources

Key learning:  Native American beliefs and customs, impact of European settlers

 

Year 8

WA1

Title of assessment: The Tudors

Skills assessed: interpretation, diversity, chronological understanding, cause & effect, significance

Develop interpretations based on evaluation & reflection.  Infer from sources and judge utility/ reliability

Key learning:

How did the Tudors beliefs & Ideas shape modern Britain?

Examine the Tudor monarchs

WA2

Title of assessment: Elizabeth / Empire/ Slavery

Skills assessed: interpretation, diversity, chronological understanding, cause & effect

Develop interpretations based on evaluation & reflection.  Infer from sources and judge utility/ reliability

Key learning: Elizabeth successes & problems, Elizabethan life, Slavery

WA3

Title of assessment: WW1

Skills assessed: chronological understanding, significance, cause & consequence

Develop interpretations based on evaluation & reflection.  Infer from sources and judge utility/ reliability

Key learning: causes of WW1, Treaty of Versailles, trench warfare, conditions, recruitment

 

Year 9

WA1

Title of assessment: Rise of Hitler/ WW2

Skills assessed: interpretation, diversity, chronological understanding, cause & effect, significance

Reaching balanced evaluations using evidence.  Infer from sources and evaluate their provenance

Key learning:

Rise of Hitler, Hitler youth, Life in Nazi Germany

Holocaust

WA2

Title of assessment: WW2 – Key events

Skills assessed: interpretation, diversity, chronological understanding, cause & effect, significance

Develop interpretations based on evaluation & reflection. Cause and consequence

Key learning:

WW2 – Key events. Home Front & the downfall of Nazi Germany

WA3

Title of assessment: Civil rights/ Vietnam project

Skills assessed: Significance, interpretation, chronological understanding

Reaching balanced evaluations using evidence.  Infer from sources and evaluate their provenance

Key learning: Civil rights movements, JFK, Vietnam