Key Stage 3

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GCSE skills:

Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the key features of period studied and the relevant chronology
Explain and analyse the causes and consequences of historical events and periods
Explain and analyse change and continuity of historical events and periods
Explain and analyse the similarities and differences between historical events and periods
Explain and analyse the significance of historical events and periods, including reaching a substantiated judgement
Analyse, evaluate and interrogate sources
Analyse, evaluate and interrogate interpretations
Relevant use of tier 2 and 3 vocabulary

By the end of year 9, students should be able to:

Show a good understanding of chronology and have an emerging range of factual material
Explain how causes/consequences are linked and explain relative importance
Analyse the nature and pace of change/continuity over the era being studied
Explain the similarities and/or differences between different historical events and periods
Describe in detail the ways in which people or events are significant
Consider the nature, origin and purpose of sources and begin to evaluate reliability
Explain clear reasons for different interpretations
Accurately use relevant tier 2 and 3 vocabulary in structured writing

By the end of year 8, students should be able to:

Select and deploy factual knowledge with broadly correct chronological understanding
Accurately explain causes/consequences of events
Describe elements of historical change AND continuity
Describe the similarities and/or differences between different historical events and periods
Understand the meaning of ‘significance’
Make inferences from sources and identify similarities and differences between sources
Describe different opinions about events or people
Use relevant tier 2 and 3 vocabulary with increasing accuracy

By the end of year 7, students should be able to:

Show some factual knowledge and general narrative understanding
Show understanding of some causes/ consequences
Describe some things that changed
Identify the similarities and/or differences between different historical events and periods
Understand the meaning of ‘importance’
Understand that different people have different opinions about events or people
Identify a number of surface-level details from the source
Begin to use relevant tier 2 and 3 vocabulary with some accuracy