Subject: History
Curriculum Leader: N Sanderson
KS3
Content of the Curriculum
Year 7: Roman Britain,
Norman Britain, Life in the
Middle Ages: Peasants and
black death, Henry VIIElizabeth I, Native American
Indians.
Year 8: Local Study – impact
of Industrial Revolution on
Stoke- on Trent, British Empire,
WWI, WWII
Additional Resources to aid learning
e.g. web links, guided reading
• www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/
• www.historylearningsite.co.uk/e
ngland_medieval.htm
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/sh
ows/horrible-histories
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/k
s3/history/tudors_stuarts/
• http://www.stokemuseums.org.u
k/visit/eim/
• http://www.liverpoolmuseums.or
g.uk/ism/slavery/europe/liverpo
ol.aspx
• https://www.nationalarchives.g
ov.uk/education/empire/
• http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/
0/ww1/
• http://spartacuseducational.com/FWW.htm
• http://www.historylearningsite.c
o.uk/children_and_world_war_t
wo.htm
Subject: History
Curriculum Leader: N Sanderson
KS4
Name of GCSE course (GCSE
only)
We follow the OCR History B
(Modern World) course. Topics
covered are:
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British Depth study 180-1918
Germany depth Study
The Cold War 1945-1975
Russia 1905-1941 (controlled
assessment)
Additional Resources to aid
learning e.g. web links, guided
reading
http://www.ocr.org.uk/qualificati
ons/gcse-history-b-modern-worldj417-j117-from-2012/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/g
csebitesize/history/
http://johndclare.net/
Textbooks used: