137·History · GCSE
Year 10 History
Scheme of Work
GCSE History Scheme of Work — Year 10 (AQA 8145 PDF)
Fifty-one pages, written lesson by lesson against AQA 8145. Six units, thirty-six phases, eight purpose-drawn figures. Five specifications set GCSE History and they set different papers, so no single sequence can be accurate for all of them — the back matter maps the architecture onto Edexcel, both OCR routes and Eduqas, from each board's own document. Every quotation resolves against its source on every build, and no year reaches a page unless it is on a checked chronology.
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- 1aBecoming a Historian at GCSE: What the Four Sections Ask
- 1bMedicine Stands Still: Why Nothing Changed for Five Centuries
- 2aElizabeth's Court and Parliament: Authority Without an Army
- 2bLife in Elizabethan Times: A Golden Age for Whom?
- 3aThe Beginnings of Change: Why the Renaissance Changed Medicine Slowly
- 3bTroubles at Home and Abroad: Religion, Mary and the Armada
Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. Phases rather than single lessons, planned against AQA's 120 guided learning hours across the two years — the assumption is stated rather than hidden.
The order is argued for rather than chronological. The thematic study is spread across four separated returns instead of blocked into a term, because a c1000-to-present arc is the one element that rewards spacing. Elizabethan England sits between the first two of those returns, so that when students meet Renaissance medicine they already know the period from the inside. And the wider-world work waits for Year 11, so that the First World War's ending hands straight over to Weimar's founding rather than being separated by a summer.
Written against AQA because a lesson-by-lesson sequence has to choose: Edexcel sets three papers of unequal weight, Eduqas two components split into four, and OCR pairs particular thematic studies with particular depth studies so that choosing one chooses the other. The architecture — the sequencing, the spiral, the assessment and retrieval plan, the two statutory option-compliance tests — transfers to all of them, and the table showing where each board differs is quoted from each board's own specification rather than summarised.
- Written to GCSE subject content: history (DfE, DFE-00346-2014), Ofqual's assessment objectives, and AQA 8145 version 1.3
- Intended for heads of history, subject leaders and every teacher who has to deliver it
- Extent 51 pages · 22 sections
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