Content details Links to Edexcel Progression Target Additional Extra stretch End of half term GCSE (9–1) History scale focus understanding for understanding for understanding assessment will all students some students cover Week 8 Idea of Absolutism is Causation and Causation and Causation and Causation and Causation and * Timeline of events relevant to: consequence consequence Step 5: consequence Step 6: consequence Step 7: consequence * Target Step 5 Learners can Learners may be They may be starting Russia and the Evidence * Failed arrest of 5 MPs: Soviet Union, Stretch to Step 6 categorise causes starting to use simple to prioritise some Explanation of how relations with some knowledge of the causes as more between King and Parliament confidence and are event or period to important than * Weimar and Nazi had got to this point beginning to back up their causal others, but the Germany, * Introduce the idea of recognise that these statements. explanation or "absolutism" groupings of causal Causation and reasoning behind this factors are remains weak. Causation and consequence Step 7: Week 9 interrelated, e.g. a Learners are * Prynne and Puritan consequence Pamphleteers highlight Target Step 5 poor harvest can becoming confident – have effects on both in forming a causal differences between Puritans Stretch to Step 6 the economy and picture using & Laudianism society. information that they * Focus on long-term and Causation and are given and can short-term causes of conflict construct a sound consequence Step 6: Week 10 Causation and Learners can link explanation of why * Causes of the Civil War consequence categories of causes something happened. * Combining two story lines: Target Step 6 to form a simple the struggle between King Stretch to Step 7 – causal picture and and Parliament begin to explain why Religious unrest – something happened * The start of the war in history. Weeks 11–12 Enquiry question: What were the differences between roundheads and cavaliers? Week 11 Evidence Evidence Step 5: Evidence Step 6: Evidence Step 7: Causation and * The differences in what the Target Step 5 Learners can Learners can use a Learners can make consequence two sides wanted from the war Stretch to Step 6 distinguish between small group of supported inferences Evidence * Other differences in outlook information about the sources together to about the past by including past and evidence make simple using a source and
Content details Links to Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History Progression scale focus Target understanding for all students Additional understanding for some students Extra stretch understanding End of half term assessment will cover Week 8 * Timeline of events * Failed arrest of 5 MPs: Explanation of how relations between King and Parliament had got to this point * Introduce the idea of "absolutism" Idea of Absolutism is relevant to: * Russia and the Soviet Union, * Weimar and Nazi Germany, Causation and consequence Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Causation and consequence Step 5: Learners can categorise causes with some confidence and are beginning to recognise that these groupings of causal factors are interrelated, e.g. a poor harvest can have effects on both the economy and society. Causation and consequence Step 6: Learners can link categories of causes to form a simple causal picture and begin to explain why something happened in history. Causation and consequence Step 6: Learners may be starting to use simple knowledge of the event or period to back up their causal statements. Causation and consequence Step 7: Learners are becoming confident in forming a causal picture using information that they are given and can construct a sound explanation of why something happened. Causation and consequence Step 7: They may be starting to prioritise some causes as more important than others, but the explanation or reasoning behind this remains weak. Causation and consequence Evidence Week 9 * Prynne and Puritan Pamphleteers – highlight differences between Puritans & Laudianism * Focus on long-term and short-term causes of conflict Causation and consequence Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Week 10 * Causes of the Civil War * Combining two story lines: – the struggle between King and Parliament – Religious unrest * The start of the war Causation and consequence Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7 Weeks 11–12 Enquiry question: What were the differences between roundheads and cavaliers? Week 11 * The differences in what the two sides wanted from the war * Other differences in outlook including Evidence Target Step 5 Stretch to Step 6 Evidence Step 5: Learners can distinguish between information about the past and evidence Evidence Step 6: Learners can use a small group of sources together to make simple Evidence Step 7: Learners can make supported inferences about the past by using a source and Causation and consequence Evidence