Key Stage 3


Programme of Study Year 9

These are the National Curriculum tasks which we study in Year 9. As well as detailed instructions for the task, you will also be given a breakdown of what the National Curriculum levels mean. This will help you to try and beat your previous best level each time.

Task Sheets and Level Descriptors.

Causation Task Why did the Schlieffen Plan Fail?
  or
  What led to The Somme being one of the most catastrophic battles of all time?
Source Evaluation Task Schlieffen Plan
  or
  The Home Front 1939–1945: How did the war affect life in Britain?
Empathy Task Abolitionist Newspaper.

There will also be some end-of-unit tests to check your factual recall and understanding.

Term 1

The Great War 1914-1918

  • The position of the Great Powers in 1900.

  • Long (imperialism) and short term (alliances) tensions in the build up to war.

  • Spark to war – shooting in Sarajevo.

  • Why did war break out in Europe in 1914?

  • Why did the Schlieffen Plan fail?

  • Invasion of Belgium, stalemate and trench warfare on the Western Front.

  • Why is the battle of the Somme remembered as a tragedy?

  • American entry and allied victory.

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Term 2

The Second World War and The Holocaust

  • The Treaty of Versailles, Rise of Hitler and the Road to WWII

  • The Phoney War, the German advance using Blitzkreig, and evacuation in Britain.

  • Dunkirk: triumph or tragedy?

  • The Battle of Britain, the Blitz and air-raid precautions.

  • D-day and the victory in Europe.

Independent Project or Holocaust Project as below.

  • Early anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany.

  • The Nuremberg Laws.

  • Kristallnacht and the ghettos.

  • The concentration and death camps.

  • Liberation.

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Term 3

The British Empire and Slavery

  • Why did Britain want an empire?

  • The Slave Trade Triangle.

  • Slave experiences: capture, the Middle Passage, auction.

  • Life on the Plantations.

  • Revolt and resistance.

  • Abolition: for or against?

  • White extremism and the KKK.

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