Key Stage 3 Curriculum Map
YEAR
7
Department: Department Name
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Medieval Realms
Geography Skills
The Tudors
Economic Activities
Religious Worship
The London Olympics
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Students will learn
about the contest for
the throne of England
in 1066, looking at the
4 different claimants
and how this led to the
Battle of Hastings. The
focus will then move
on to life and political
systems during the
time.
Students will interpret
maps, getting to know the
UK and the continents of
the world. They will then
apply a range of map skills
from 6 figure grid refences
to scale.
Students will investigate
how Henry VIII's problems
led to the refromation of
the church within England
and the problems that
developed from this. They
will then investigate life in
Engalnd under the rule of
each of Henry's children.
Students will investigate
the different employment
sectors, looking at the
factors which influence
their locationa nd they
could cahnge in the futrue.
They will also look at the
benfits and negatives that
different industries can
bring both locally and
globally.
Studnets will
investigate how
different religious
communities worship
and look at why they
believe this is
important. Students
will also investigate
how this impacts upon
people's lives in the
UK.
Students will
investigate the
problems which existed
in East London before
the olympics and how
the Olympics could lead
to regenration of the
area. Stduents will then
investigate the legacy
left by other Olympics
and the compare this to
the 2012 London
Olympic site.
Skills
Interpreting /
analysing / reporting /
explaining / literacy
Assessment
Stduents will write a
levelled essay on 'Who
Should be King' and
complete an end of
unit assessment.
Students will then
complete their first
Geography enquiry,
looking at litter around the
school.
Skills
Map interpretation /
numeracy / investigating /
evaluating / concluding /
literacy
Assessment
This will take the form of a
levellled enquiry titled
'Does SQES have a litter
problem' and an end of
unit assessment.
Skills
Analysing / reporting /
extracting / prioritising /
ordering / explaining /
decsion making /
investigating / literacy
Assessment
Students will write an
essay on 'How successful
Elizabeth's reign was' and
an end of unit
assessment.
Skills
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
problem solving /
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation /
literacy
Skills
Skills
Empathy / investigating
Decision making /
/ extracting /
evaluating / debating / interpretation /
extracting / problem
prioritising / literacy
solving / priortising /
investigating / literacy
Assessment
Assessment
Stduents will complete a
report on 'Where should
Stamford AFC's football
stadium be loacted' and
and end of unit
assessment.
Students will write a
levelled letter on 'how
and why a Hindu
worships' and then
complete an end of
unit assessment.
Assessment
Students will do a
levelled presentation
on why London needs
the Olympics and then
complete a levlled
decsion making activity
on what should happen
to the main stadium.
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The Stuarts
Raging Rivers
The Industrial Revolution
Changing Coast Lines
Religious Ceremonies
Shopping in the UK
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and pleaces of worship
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Students will
investigate how the
continued tension
between the
Protestants and
Catholics, looking at
the Gun Powder plot
and wether the
plotters were framed.
The outbreak of Civil
War and the growing
struggles for power
between the King and
Parliament.
Students will look at the
different features in a
drainage basin, the
processes of erosion that
shape river landforms and
how these change
overtime. They will then
move on to investigate the
cause of floods, the effects
and how people can
respond to these.
Students will investaigate
how life changed through
this important period of
history, focussing on
health, education and
work. Students will also
look at the impact of the
railways on Britain and
how this helped to
improve life across the
country. The unit will
conclude by looking at the
Slave trade and the
impacts of this.
Content
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
problem solving /
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation /
literacy
Skills
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
problem solving /
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation /
literacy
Assessment
Assessment
Students will write a
levelled report on the
Boscastle flood of 2004,
and then complete an end
of unit assessment.
Students wil complete an
essay on 'How did the
Railways change life in
Britain?' They will then
complete an end of unit
assessment.
Skills
Analysing / reporting /
extracting / prioritising
/ ordering / explaining
/ decsion making /
investigating / literacy
/ making inferences
Assessment
Students will complete
an essay on 'Was King
Charles to blame for
the outbreak of war?'
Then complete an end
Skills
Analysing / reporting /
extracting / prioritising /
ordering / explaining /
decsion making /
investigating / literacy /
making inferences
Students will investigate
the differnet landforms
and procresses that take
place across coastlines.
Students will look at the
impacts that erosion can
have on people living by
the coast, how we can
respond to this threat and
how Government policy is
changing.
Skills
Stduents will look at
the imporatnce of
Students will
shopping as an ecomoic
investigate the features
activity. How shopping
of different religious
patterns have changed
buildings, the meaning
and what can be done
of these features and
to regenrate the CBD.
how the buildings are
used. They will also
Skills
investiaget the
Interpretation /
different religios
numeracy / decision
ceremonies that may
making / problem
take place within the
solving / evaluating /
buildings and the
ordering / prioritising /
meaning of these.
investigation / literacy
Skills
Content
Empathy / investigating
/ extracting /
Assessment
evaluating / debating /
Students will complete
prioritising / literacy /
explaining / comparing a levelled ssustianble
shopping development
plan.
Assessment t
Assessment
Students will complete
a levelled postcard
from a religious
building of their choice
expalining the features
of unit assessment.
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and impoartnace of the
building. They will also
complete an end of
unit assessment.
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World War 1
Population and the
World War 2
Tectonics
Looking for God
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changing world
Unfair world
development
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Students will investigate
the problems created from
the Treaty of Versailles and
how this helped lead to the
rise of Hitler. They will
study what life was like in
Hitlewr's Germany and
how he prepared for war.
They will also study what
life was like in Britain and
key events at the time,
such as the Blitz, the Battle
of Britain and D-day.
Students will also
investigate th Holocaust
and the very sad impact of
this.
Studnets will
investigate the cause
and processes of plate
tectonics, investigating
the processes which
happen at different
plate boundaries. They
will then look at real
life case studeis,
investigating the
effects and response
methods to these.
Students will look at
the reasons why people
believe in God and if
having a faith means
that you will conduct
your life in the correct
way. They will look at
the growth of athesium
and the reasosn for
this.
Students will
investigate the causes
of the war and the
complex nature of
these. They will then
look at life in the
trenches and the
propaganda machine
that operated at the
time. Key battles will
be studied including
the Somme.
Concluding with the
problems of the peace
makers.
Skills
Analysing / reporting /
extracting / prioritising
/ ordering / explaining
/ decsion making /
investigating / literacy
/ making inferences /
empathy
Content
Students will look at the
Stduents will investigate
location of MEDCs and
the factors wghich
LEDCs and the ways to
influence population
measure how developed
location, the problems
countries are. They will
asscoiated with population
then look at the impacts
growth and
of Multi National
oevrpopulation. They will
Companies and Aid as
study population oyramids
ways of helping countries
and how these may change
develop. Finally they will
overtime. As well as
look at life within a shanty
looking at the Chinese One
settlement (Kibera) and
Child Policy and the
the problems that
consequences of
residents face here.
migration.
Skills
Skills
Interpretation / numeracy
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
/ decision making /
problem solving /
problem solving /
evaluating / ordering /
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation
prioritising / investigation /
/ literacy
literacy
Assessment
Students will produce
Assessment
Skills
Analysing / reporting /
extracting / prioritising /
ordering / explaining /
decsion making /
investigating / literacy /
making inferences /
empathy
Assessment
Students will complete a
Assessment
Skills
Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
making / problem
solving / evaluating /
ordering / prioritising /
investigation / literacy
Skills
Empathy / investigating
/ extracting / evaluating
/ debating / prioritising
/ literacy / explaining /
comparing
Assessment
Students will complete
a levelled presentation
on 'whether having a
Assessment
religion means you are
A levelled report on a a better person.' They
tectonic hazard. As well will then complete an
as an end of unit end of unit assessment.
a levelled letter
explaining what life is
like in the trenches.
Then they will
complete an end of
unit assessment.
Students will complete a
decsion making activity on
how to control population
growth. They will also
complete an end of unit
assessment.
levelled reprot on life in
Kibera. They will also do
an end of unit
assessment.
Key Stage 4 Curriculum Map
Students will produce a
levelled essay answering
the question 'Was there
really a Blitz Spirit?' They
will then complete an end
of unit assessment
assessment.
Department: Department Name
YEAR
TERM 1
TERM 2
TERM 3
TERM 4
TERM 5
TERM 6
10
Term Focus
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Economic Activities
Development and Aid
Population
Settlement
Tropical Stroms
Droughts
Content
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Students will investigate
the different
employment sectors,
looking at the factors
which influence their
locations and how they
could cahnge in the
futrue. They will look at
the benfits and negatives
that different industries
can bring both locally
and globally and how the
problems can be
overcome. As well as
investigating the impacts
of Multi National
Companies on the
countries which they
operate within. Case
studies include Talk Talk,
Ketton Cement,
Students will look at the
location of MEDCs and
LEDCs and the ways to
measure how
developed countries
are. They will then look
at the impacts of Aid as
a way of helping
countries develop,
investigating the
sustainability and
impact of this. Finally
they will look at Tree
Aid as a case study of a
sustainable aid project.
Students will investigate
the factors which influence
population location, the
problems asscoiated with
population growth and
oevrpopulation. They will
study population pyramids
and how these may
change overtime. They will
look at Britain's own
population crisis - the
aging population. As well
as looking at the Chinese
One Child Policy and the
consequences of
migration.
Students will look at the
factors which influence
settlement location, the
shape of settlements and
how their functions vary.
They will look at urban
landuse madels and the
different features of
urban areas. They will
investigate the problems
of urban decay and
methiods used to
regenrate cities. They
will alos look at changing
shopping patterns and
impacts of these. Then
compare this knowledge
with settlements in
LEDCs, with a focus on
life in Kebra, a shanty
settlement in Kenya.
Students will investigate
the location of different
tropical storms and the
processes that lead to
their formation. They
will investigate
methiods used to
predict and respond to
such hazards. Then
compare information
from Hurricane Katrina
and Typhoon Haiyan, to
see how economic
development affects the
impacts of such hazards.
Students will investigate
the location of drought
prone areas and the
processes that lead
todcrought and
desrtification. They will
investigate methiods
used to predict and
respond to such
hazards. Then compare
information from 2 case
studies to see how
drought affcets
countries at deiffering
levels of economic
development.
Skills
Population
Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
making / problem
Skills
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
Skills
Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
making / problem
solving / evaluating /
Skills
Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
Microsoft at Silicon Fen
and Nike in Vietnam.
solving / evaluating /
ordering / prioritising /
investigation / literacy
Skills
Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
making / problem solving
/ evaluating / ordering /
prioritising /
investigation / literacy
Assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
problem solving /
Skills
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation / Interpretation /
numeracy / decision
literacy
making / problem solving
/ evaluating / ordering /
prioritising /
investigation / literacy
Assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
ordering / prioritising /
investigation / literacy
making / problem
solving / evaluating /
ordering / prioritising /
investigation / literacy
Assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
Assessment
Assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
Assessment
Descion Making activity
and end of unit
assessment
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Ciontrolled Assessment
Content
Content
Making Prep
Content
Skills
Tectonics
Content
Worth 25% of finla
grade. Collecting
information and reaching
conclusions based on a
title released from the
exam board.
Assessment
Content
To prepare for Decision
Making activity on Rivers
or Coasts. Looking at
how we can defend
against floods or coastal
erosion and how
sustainable these
methods are.
Skills
Assessment
Studnets will investigate
the cause and processes of
plate tectonics,
investigating the processes
which happen at different
plate boundaries and how
this links to patterns in
location. They will then
look at real life case
studies, investigating the
effects and response
methods to these.
Decision
Skills
Decision making /
interpretation / explain /
prioritising
Term Focus
Term Focus
Revision for Terminal
Exam
Content
Content
Assessment
To revise the course
Skills
Assessment
Skills
Investigating how
sustainable it is to repsond
to such hazards.
Skills
Interpretation / numeracy
/ decision making /
problem solving /
evaluating / ordering /
prioritising / investigation /
literacy
Assessment t
Assessment
Practice tests