History at Ark Kings
Nursery
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Who am I? Understanding personal and family history | What happens at night? Understanding personal and family history |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Can you make it work? Exploring different family traditions Homes in the past and present | Where do animals live? Exploring different family traditions |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| What can we do to help? Exploring different occupations. | How do things change over time? Understanding that growth over time means that things were different in the past – life cycle of butterfly and plant. |
Reception
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Who am I? Understanding personal and family history School changes from past to present | What happens at night? Comment on images of familiar situations in the past: Christmas in the past compared to now. |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Can you make it work? Transport changes from past to present | Where do animals live? Preserving and recording memories from the past |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| What can we do to help? Significant individuals in society and history | How do things change over time? How we have grown during Reception How were things different long ago? |
Year 1
| Autumn 2 |
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| Toys Over Time (History) How are toys today similar and different from toys in the past? |
| Spring 1 & 2 |
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| Transport and Travel (History) How has transport changed over time? |
Year 2
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| The Great Fire of London (History) How did the Great Fire affect the people of London? | Kings and Queens (History) Who was the most powerful British monarch? |
| Summer 1 |
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| People Who Made a Difference (History) How did these significant people make a difference? |
Year 3
| Autumn 1 |
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| Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages (History) How did life change for people living in the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages? |
| Spring 1 & 2 |
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| Ancient Egyptians (History) What does evidence tell us about Ancient Egyptian society? |
Year 4
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| The Romans (History) Why did the Romans invade Britain and how successful were they? | Roman Britain (History) How did the Romans influence Britain? |
| Summer 1 |
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| Maya Civilisation (History) What was life like in the Maya civilisation and how do we know? |
Year 5
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Anglo-Saxons and Scots (History) How did the Anglo-Saxons change England and what part did the Scots play? | Vikings (History) Were the Vikings just invaders? |
| Summer 1 |
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| Baghdad and the Middle East (History) What was the Golden Age of Islam and how did Baghdad compare to London in 900CE? |
Year 6
| Autumn 1 |
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| Ancient Greece (History) Who were the Ancient Greeks and how did they influence the world? |
| Spring 1 & 2 |
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| Conflict and Resolution: WW1 and WW2 (History) How and why did Britain fight in two world wars, and how did they change British society? |
Year 7
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| World Views C1000 Why did Baghdad have a thirst for knowledge? What light can one saint’s story shed on western Christian worlds? | Contested Power, Contested Land C11th-12th How did the Normans disrupt England? Why did Alexios’s empire survive? Why did the barons keep rebelling against their English rulers? |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Empires: Expansion and Collapse C13th How did the Mongols end up destroying Baghdad? How did one village respond to the Black Death? | Stability and Instability C14th and C15th How did English nobles choose sides in the War of the Roses? |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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| Religious Revolution and Resistance C16th What changed in the village of Morebath? | Silver and Gold: European Expansion and the New World How have historians overcome the challenges of studying the Inkas? |
Year 8
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Expanding Empires and Connected Worlds – Mughal Empire and West African Kingdoms How does Ruby Lal use sources to construct her story of Nur Jahan? | Contested Power, Contested Ideas, Contested Land – Puritanism and the Stuarts How close did England come to a Puritan Revolution? How much did Pepys world change? |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 |
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| Destroyed Communities, Created Communities – Transatlantic Slave Trade, The Virginia Colonies and the EIC How free were people in America in the 17th century? | Worlds in Motion: Minds, Migrants and Machines – Changing rural technology, factories and the industrial revolution What can historians infer about the industrial revolution from working class voices? |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 |
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Revolution and Rebellion, Reaction and Reform – French Revolution, Change and Continuity in the Caribbean, Chartism and the 1832 Reform Act How did abolition change life for the people of Jamaica? What did the Chartists want? | The Elite Response – Reform from Above – Elite efforts to address the condition of Britain, India’s 1857 Rebellion and aftermath How much did reform transform Britain and its colonies? |
Year 9
| Autumn 1 | Autumn 2 |
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| Age of Imperialism European empires in c. 1880 How did Ngugi interpret colonisation in East Africa? | Changing empires, changing lives: Story summary: Karl Marx What did Hannah Mitchell want to change? How did Sergei’s photographs portray the Russian empire? |
| Spring 1 | Spring 2 | |
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Empires at war Why did so many European leaders declare war in 1914? Story summary: European empires in c. 1919 | Ideas of power Did Stalin transform the Soviet Union? Why did so many German people support the Nazi Party? Story summary: the Second World War | |
| Summer 1 | Summer 2 | ||
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War and post-war How typical was Lien’s story of European Jews in the 20th century? How did the atomic bomb reshape the world? | Changing histories Why did decolonisation become so contested in Kenya? How can we describe the lives of the Black diaspora in the 20thC? | ||
Year 10
| Autumn 1 & 2 | |
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| Thematic Study: Medicine through Time, C1250-Present |
| Spring 1 & 2 | |
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| Medicine on the Western Front and Superpower Relations and the Cold War |
| Summer 1 & 2 | |
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| Modern Depth Study: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39 |
All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Geography
Year 11
| Autumn 1 & 2 | |
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| Period Study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91 |
| Spring 1 & 2 | |
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| British Depth Study: The Early Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1588 |
| Summer 1 & 2 | |
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| Revision and Exams |
All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Geography
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Year 5 - Industrial revolution pupil work
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Year 5 - Industrial Revolution: using sources to gain an understanding of the period.