134·History · Key Stage 3

Year 7 History
Scheme of Work

Year 7 History Scheme of Work — KS3 PDF

Six half-termly units across one academic year, in chronological order. The year opens before 1066 because that is where evidence is easiest to teach — the record is thin enough that a class has to reason from it — and it closes on the world beyond Christendom, so that England is not the only place history happens.

1aBefore the Normans: Who Was Here, and How Do We Know?
1b1066: How Do You Take a Country, and How Do You Keep It?
2aMedieval Lives: What Held England Together?
2bChristendom and Beyond: How Connected Was the Medieval World?
3aThe Black Death and the Revolt: Did the Plague Change England For Ever?
3bCrown in Crisis: Why Did the King Lose Control of His Own Nobles?

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Ten sections per unit, in the same order every time. One row per phase rather than per lesson, because a history unit is a sequence of enquiries and not a sequence of forty-five separate objectives. Six units: one on how we know, four on medieval England, and one on the world beyond it.

Substantive and disciplinary knowledge are separated and both are planned. Every unit carries a diagnostic, six hinge questions with the wrong answers named, a question bank graded from recall to argument, a four-band rubric and the misconceptions that actually appear. One chronological spine runs through all three years and is drawn in the first lesson of every unit.

Every date, person and event in the book is checked against a verified chronology at build time, and every figure that is an estimate is printed as one. The coverage matrix at the back sets out every line of the programme of study and says plainly which lines the document requires and which it offers as an example — including the examples this scheme does not take up.