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HISTORY POLITICS HISTORY AND

YEAR 7 – SIXTH FORM
BRILLIANCE CURRICULUM
ART AND DESIGN

Skill development: BEYOND
Interpretation, Knowledge,
Historical evidence, Revision and Exam
Causation, Consequence,
Continuity and Change, The impact of war The Racial State
Significance 1939–45 1933–41 The Triumph
of Elizabeth

Mocks and NEA The Nazi Dictatorship
1933–39 U6
The establishment of the early
years of the Weimar Republic The ‘Golden Age’ of the The collapse of democracy
Weimar Republic
1918–24 1924–28 1928–33

Henry VII Henry VIII Instability and consolidation:
1485–1509
‘the mid-Tudor crisis’
L6 1509–47 1547–63
USSR and the Control NEA: The USA in the The USA and the containment of
of Eastern Europe 1920s and 30s Communism: Cuban Revolution

POLITICS Revision and Exam The USA and the containment Revision, mock examinations
of Communism: Vietnam War
and NEA preparation YEAR
11
The causes and The collapse of The USA and the
The US economic consequences of the The peace treaties of international relations containment of
boom in the 1920s Wall Street Crash 1919–23 by 1939 Communism

Changes in US The successes The successes and The origins of
society in the 1920s and failures of the failures of the League the Cold War
YEAR New Deal of Nations
10 Gathering storm:
The campaign for equal The Jewish experience Abolition African
rights in America and the Holocaust of slavery civilisation
YEAR
9

Moments in The Great War and The Transatlantic
History the Fight for Freedom Slave Trade
How do we
Historical Living and Dying in Impact of the remember Medieval The Greatest
Scholarship the Medieval World Hundred Years War Queens today Matter
End of Year
YEAR and Revision
Assessment
8
William Marshall in How serious was the The Agincourt Young Henry The Black Tudors –
Plantagenet England Peasants’ Revolt Campaign Transition Project
Year 8-9
Development Religion in the Conquered and Migration story Brilliant History
of Castles Middle Ages conquerors after the Romans
End of Year
Assessment YEAR
7
and Revision
What makes a
successful monarch The Crusades Norman England 1066
Chepstow Castle
field trip

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