Year 7 Curriculum Information Booklet 2018 - 2019

History
The principal aim of the History and Politics Department is to encourage interest in, and
enjoyment of, the past and to understand how it impacts on the present and the future.
Students should be inspired and stimulated by the teaching they receive and they will be
encouraged to widen their historical knowledge and develop skills which are readily
transferable to the wider curriculum.
The Department believes that students should be encouraged to think for themselves and
become inquisitive and critical citizens of the future. Students explore relevant questions
which will show the importance of the past.
Unit 1:
England before Hastings
Who were the Vikings?
Who were the Anglo Saxons?
Unit 2:
Why was England a Battlefield in
1066?
How far did the Normans change
England?
Unit 3:
Where the middle Ages measly?
Where the English a welcoming nation
in the Middle Ages?
What was England like before 1066?
What were the ‘invasions’ of
England before 1066?
Where the Vikings raiders or
traders?
Understand how historians know
the past: What evidence do we
have?
Who were the Anglo Saxons and
how did they live?
Why was there rivalry for the throne in
1066?
Why did William win in 1066?
How was William I able to take
control by 1076?
o Feudalism
o Church
o Town and village life.
o Legal system
o Government
Why did the Anglo - Saxons rebel
and fail?
How should we remember William
I?
Field Study: Castle Visit
Life in the middle ages:
Towns and villages
Jobs and leisure
The Black death and its impact
The Peasants Revolt and its impact
Crime and punishment.
Pastors letters of Love and family
Why were the Jews invited to
England and then expelled?