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