Throughout KS3 students complete thematic studies on social, economic and political history, focusing on the following enquiries:

 

Year 7

 

• How has the political power in Britain changed? What impact have invaders had?
• How have the lives of ordinary people changed 1066-2010?

 

Year 8

 

• How has power and leadership changed 1066-2010?
• What impact did the British Empire have for its people, then and now? Was it ‘Great’?
• The Transatlantic slave trade.
• Women and universal suffrage. Getting the vote.

 

Year 9

 

• Does war change lives and how is it remembered?
• Challenges to democracy
• The civil rights movement in the United States?
• Medicine through time (preparation for KS4 GCSE)