Terms 1 & 2
Year 5
During this term students will extend their history skills. This term the pupils will be concentrating on their own histories and will start to investigate various timelines.
Year 6
During this term we are starting our project on Britain since the 1930’s. Pupils will cover how people lived in the 1930’s and understand how the Second World War began.
Year 7
During this term we are studying the Roman Empire with particular focus on how the Empire began and the technologies and social structures that made Rome a force.
Year 8
In this term the pupils in year 8 will be investigating the rise of the Tudor dynasty and how the life of the common people was structured.
Terms 3 & 4
Year 5
This half term the pupils will be examining the major explorers in history with particular focus on Magellan and Columbus both how and why they took on the challenge.
Year 6
In this half term we will be continuing our studies of the Second World War and its effect on life in Britain. Pupils will cover how people adapted their lives to cope during the period.
Year 7
In this half term we are studying the Roman Empire with particular focus on how the empire expanded and developed across Europe. We will also focus on the development of new technologies which supported the empire.
Year 8
In this half term we will be investigating the period of the Stuarts with particular scrutiny on the life of the common people and major social event such as the Great fire of London and the Plague.
Terms 5 & 6
Year 5
During this term students will extend their history skills. They will be encouraged to ask why events occurred while at the same time honing their understanding of a sequential perspective of history. We will study the development of the Aztec culture giving students the opportunity to discover key details on their society – how it developed, how it was structured and how it disappeared.
Year 6
During this term students will be learning about life in Britain after 1948. They will investigate reasons for and results of changes in population, popular culture and employment. They will make links between changes during the second half of the 20th Century and apply their skills of historical research and enquiry to a study of the period.
Year 7
Students this term make the leap from the time the Romans left the UK and what was left behind. We will be analysing how the Medieval age grew from the Dark Ages. Students will be encouraged to understand how the UK became fractured during this period. They will also be able to investigate how the influence of new regimes started to bring order to the lives of people.
Year 8
During this term we focus on the Native American Indians. Pupils will be encouraged to draw from a wide variety of source materials in order to create a selection of project work producing a personal analysis of the key areas of how they developed a vibrant culture. Each pupil will utilise diverse technologies and traditional sources of information to help them in their understanding of the development of the various peoples as they developed across North America. They will be able to make their own analysis of how the diverse societies functioned and interacted with the European settlers.