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History at Ark Kings

Nursery

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Who am I? What happens at night?
Spring 1 Spring 2
Can you make it work? Where do animals live?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What can we do to help? How do things change over time?

All Nursery subjects Next Nursery Subject - Geography

Reception

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Who am I? What happens at night?
Spring 1 Spring 2
Can you make it work? Where do animals live?
Summer 1 Summer 2
What can we do to help? How do things change over time?

All Reception subjects Next Reception Subject - Geography

Year 1

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

My Local Area (Geography focus)

My Local Area (Geography focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Changes over time (History focus)

Changes over time (History focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

The United Kingdom (Geography focus)

Kings and Queens (History focus)

All Year 1 subjects Next Year 1 Subject - Geography

Year 2

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Significant Individuals
(History focus)

The Great Fire of London
(History focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Planet Earth
(Geography focus)

Planet Earth
(Geography focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

Titanic
(History focus)

Significant Individuals
(History focus)

All Year 2 subjects Next Year 2 Subject - Geography

Year 3

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
(History focus)

Ancient Egyptians
(History focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Climate Zones and Biomes
(Geography focus)

Climate Zones and Biomes
(Geography focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

Australia
(Geography focus)

Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
(History focus))

All Year 3 subjects Next Year 3 Subject - Geography

Year 4

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Roman Britain
(History focus)

Roman Britain
(History focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Settlements and Land Use (incl. Rivers and European Case Study: Italy)
(Geography focus)

Settlements and Land Use (incl. Rivers and European Case Study: Italy)
(Geography focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

Maya Civilization
(History focus)

The USA
(Geography focus)

All Year 4 subjects Next Year 4 Subject - Geography

  • Primary Retrieval Quiz (Year 4 History) (239.88 KB)

Year 5

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Anglo-Saxons and Scots (History focus)

Vikings (History focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Asia: Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Geography focus)

Asia: Mountains, Volcanoes and Earthquakes (Geography focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

Baghdad and the Middle East (History focus)

Victorians and the Industrial Revolution (History focus)

All Year 5 subjects Next Year 5 Subject - Geography

  • Primary Essay Question (Year 5 History) (146.71 KB)

Year 6

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Rebellion
(History focus)

Global Challenges
(Geography focus)

Spring 1 Spring 2

Conflict and Resolution (WWI and WWII)
(History focus)

Conflict and Resolution (WWI and WWII)
(History focus)
Summer 1 Summer 2

World Organisation
(Geography focus)

Climate change/Civil rights
(History focus)

All Year 6 subjects Next Year 6 Subject - Geography

Year 7

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
World Views C1000 Contested Power, Contested Land C11th-12th
Spring 1 Spring 2
Empires: Expansion and Collapse C13th Stability and Instability C14th and C15th
Summer 1 Summer 2
Religious Revolution and Resistance C16th Silver and Gold: European Expansion and the New World

All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - Geography

Year 8

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Expanding Empires and Connected Worlds – Mughal Empire and West African Kingdoms Contested Power, Contested Ideas, Contested Land – Puritanism and the Stuarts
Spring 1 Spring 2
Destroyed Communities, Created Communities – Transatlantic Slave Trade, The Virginia Colonies and the EIC Worlds in Motion: Minds, Migrants and Machines – Changing rural technology, factories and the industrial revolution
Summer 1 Summer 2
Revolution and Rebellion, Reaction and Reform – French Revolution, Change and Continuity in the Caribbean, Chartism and the 1832 Reform Act The Elite Response – Reform from Above – Elite efforts to address the condition of Britain, India’s 1857 Rebellion and aftermath

All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - Geography

Year 9

Autumn
The causes of World War One
Spring
Opposition in the Third Reich
Summer
Impact of the United Nations

All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - Geography

Year 10

Autumn
Thematic Study: Medicine through Time, C1250-Present
Spring
Medicine on the Western Front and Superpower Relations and the Cold War
Summer
Period Study: Superpower relations and the Cold War, 1941-91

All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Geography

 

Year 11

Autumn
Modern Depth Study: Conflict at home and abroad, USA 1954-75. Civil Rights and the Vietnam War.
Spring
British Depth Study: The Early Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1588
Summer
Revision and Exams

All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Geography

 
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Student work
Year 5 - Industrial Revolution: using sources to gain an understanding of the period.
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