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Content	Key Skills being assessed (tested).
Year 7 England in the Middle Ages. England 1500-1750: the political and religious changes.	Knowledge and Understanding of Key Topics. Sequence, chronology (Time), causes, effects, progress and other specific Historical dates. Understanding, evaluation and interpretation of evidence. Especially sources.
Year 8 Britain during the industrial revolution: the factories and transport. Britain and slavery. Britain and the 2 world wars. The holocaust.

Content

Key Skills being assessed (tested).

Year 7
England in the Middle Ages.
England 1500-1750: the political and religious changes.

Knowledge and Understanding of Key Topics.

Sequence, chronology (Time), causes, effects, progress and other specific Historical dates.

Understanding, evaluation and interpretation of evidence. Especially sources.

Year 8
Britain during the industrial revolution: the factories and transport.
Britain and slavery.
Britain and the 2 world wars.

The holocaust.

Transition Year 9 and Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11)
OCR History B Modern World History. (J417) 45% Paper 1: The World 1918-1939, Germany 1918-1945.	Knowledge and Understanding of Key Topics. Specific historical skills, especially cause and effect, development. Understanding, evaluation and interpretation of evidence, especially sources.
30% Paper 2: Britain 1890-1918; the start of the welfare state; the vote for women campaign; the effects of world war 1 on Britain.
25% Controlled assessment: South Africa and the end of Apartheid: controlled piece is on the role of Nelson Mandela.

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