| Year 7 |
|
| How did kings keep control? |
Winter term. |
| How did William take control of England? |
|
| How did William secure control of England? |
|
| Who were the king’s rivals for control? |
|
| How did kings keep control, 1066-1500? |
|
| How did ordinary people cope in medieval England? |
Spring term. |
| How important was the Church in people’s lives? |
|
| How hard was life for medieval peasants? |
|
| Was the Black Death a disaster? |
|
| How did Rome rise and why did it fall? |
Summer term. |
| How did Rome become an Empire? |
|
| ‘Bread and circuses’. Was that all life was for a Roman? |
|
| Who killed the Roman Empire? |
|
| What did the Empire leave us in its will? |
|
| Year 8 |
|
| How successfully did the Tudors tackle the problems of their reigns? |
Winter term. |
| Why did Henry VIII ‘Break with Rome’ and what effects did it have? |
|
| Why was religion such a problem for the Tudors? |
|
| Why did Mary Queen of Scots pose such a big problem to Elizabeth? |
|
| How did Elizabeth deal with the problem of Philip of Spain? |
|
| How well did Elizabeth deal with the problems of beggars and the poor? |
|
| Did Elizabeth successfully solve her problems? |
|
| What was the truth behind the Gunpowder Plot? |
|
| Did killing the king change anything? |
Spring term. |
| How did Charles I lose control of his kingdom? |
|
| Why was the English Civil War so shocking? |
|
| Does Oliver Cromwell deserve his reputation as a harsh dictator? |
|
| Did the Civil War change anything? |
|
| How far has black Americans’ freedom progressed over the last 400 years? |
Summer term. |
| What does it mean to be free? |
|
| What impact did whites have on West Africa? |
|
| What was the reality of the Atlantic slave trade? |
|
| What was life like for slaves on plantations? |
|
| Should slavery be abolished and why was it? |
|
| Did the Civil Rights Movement bring freedom for black people? |
|
| To what extent has equality been achieved? |
|
| Year 9 |
|
| How ‘Great’ was Great Britain? |
Winter term. |
| What made Britain ‘Great’? |
|
| Was Britain ‘Greatly’ democratic? |
|
| Overview: How useful is the Olympics for telling us about the twentieth century? |
|
| How have human rights developed over the twentieth century? |
Spring term. |
| What are human rights and what is racism? |
|
| How and why did the Jews lose their human rights? |
|
| How and why did South Africans gain their human rights? |
|
| Terrorists or freedom-fighters? |
|
| Was JFK a casualty of the Cold War? |
|
| What has been the impact of war in the twentieth century? |
Summer term. |
| What do the causes of twentieth century wars have in common? |
|
| How did the type and technology of warfare change over the century? |
|
| Why do the consequences of wars have such different effects over the century? |
|
| How and why did the Cold War start? |
|
