History – KS3 overview: Topic Map
Autumn Term 1
Introduction to History &
developing key skills
Autumn Term 2
Romans: Empire,
expansion and ordinary
lives
Spring Term 1
The Norman Conquest –
invasion and conflict
Spring Term 2
Medieval Realms:
Kingship and Power
Summer Term 1
Medieval Realms:
Ordinary lives
Chronology
Using sources
Empire and expansion
Movement and
settlement
Ordinary lives
Diversity
Conflict
Cause and consequence
Power
Interpretations
Causation
Ordinary lives – what
was it like and why did it
change?
Tudors: Kingship and
Power
Ideas and beliefs:
Tudors: Why did people
argue so much about
religious ideas?
Power
Interpretations
Causation
The British Empire
Ideas and Beliefs
Cause and Consequence
Conflict
Power
The slave trade
Should we be proud of
the British Empire?
What was it like to be a
slave?
Empire
Diversity
Significance
Conflict
Movement and
Settlement
Diversity
Significance
Movement and
Settlement
Ordinary Lives
Year 7 set 1
Tudors: Ordinary Lives
Year 7 set 2
Power
Movement and
Settlement
Causation
Diversity
Year 7 Set 3
Empire: Why were
Europeans mad about
empires?
Empire
Power
Conflict
Movement and
Settlement
Causation
Diversity
Summer Term 2
Case Study:
Medieval India
Change &continuity
Significance
Power
Ordinary lives
Movement and
settlement
Change
&continuity
Significance
Tudors & Stuarts:
Protest and Conflict
Ordinary lives: Industrial
revolution
Case Study: The
Space Race
Conflict
Power
Interpretations
Causation
Historical enquiry
using evidence
Communicating
about the past
The First World War
Ordinary Lives
Significance
Change and Continuity
Historical enquiry using
evidence
Rise of the dictators
Why was WWI unlike
any other war before
it?
How and why did new
political ideas change
Europe between the
wars?
Conflict
Causation
Significance
Ordinary Lives
Ideas and Beliefs
Conflict
Power
Cause and Consequence
Chronological
understanding
Significant post
war events
How did Europe
rebuild itself after
WWII?
Ideas and Beliefs
Causation
Conflict
Diversity