Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: The British Empire Weeks 27–29 Enquiry question: How did the British Empire develop? 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 Background to: Chronology Week 27 Chronology Step 6: Chronology Step 7: Chronology Step 7: Causation and * Medieval origins: The * Early Elizabethan Target Step 6 Learners are They are beginning Learners are consequence Norman Conquest, Angevin increasingly to make assumptions confident when England, 1558–1588 Chronology Empire and Hundred Years' confident in placing about periods approaching new * British America, War 1713–1783 a new period or topic because of historical periods or * Tudor colonialism: Nova within their own knowledge that they contexts and Albion and Virginia chronological already have (e.g. increasingly have * Establishment of Thirteen reference and are a their own simple ‘was everyone Colonies beginning to make Catholic because this chronological picture links between was before the into which they can Evidence Week 28 British America, periods that they place new * Conquests in the Caribbean 1713–1783 Target Step 6 Reformation?’). have studied. knowledge, although Causation and and Canada Stretch to Step 7 (Reinforced) consequence Step 7: they may still need * What Britain traded in the Learners are some support. Chronology Step 6: Atlantic Learners' timelines becoming confident * How the government and other work show in forming a causal protected trade: tariffs, growth an appreciation of picture using of the Royal Navy the different scales of information that they * Smugglers, privateers and time and how they fit are given and can pirates. together. construct a sound Week 29 Causation and Causation and explanation of why * Loss of the 13 colonies consequence something happened. consequence Step 6: * Origins of the East India Target Step 6 Learners can link Evidence Step 7: Company Stretch to Step 7 categories of causes Learners can make * Growth of trading outposts to form a simple supported inferences * Monopoly: success against causal picture and about the past by Dutch and French begin to explain why using a source and something happened the detail contained in history. within it.
Half-term: Summer 1 Unit title: The British Empire Weeks 27–29 Enquiry question: How did the British Empire develop? 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 27 * Medieval origins: The Norman Conquest, Angevin Empire and Hundred Years' War * Tudor colonialism: Nova Albion and Virginia * Establishment of Thirteen Colonies Background to: * Early Elizabethan England, 1558–1588 * British America, 1713–1783 Chronology Target Step 6 Chronology Step 6: Learners are increasingly confident in placing a new period or topic within their own chronological reference and are beginning to make links between periods that they have studied. (Reinforced) Chronology Step 6: Learners' timelines and other work show an appreciation of the different scales of time and how they fit together. 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. Chronology Step 7: They are beginning to make assumptions about periods because of knowledge that they already have (e.g. ‘was everyone a Catholic because this was before the Reformation?’). 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. Evidence Step 7: Learners can make supported inferences about the past by using a source and the detail contained within it. Chronology Step 7: Learners are confident when approaching new historical periods or contexts and increasingly have their own simple chronological picture into which they can place new knowledge, although they may still need some support. Causation and consequence Chronology Week 28 * Conquests in the Caribbean and Canada * What Britain traded in the Atlantic * How the government protected trade: tariffs, growth of the Royal Navy * Smugglers, privateers and pirates. British America, 1713–1783 Evidence Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7 Week 29 * Loss of the 13 colonies * Origins of the East India Company * Growth of trading outposts * Monopoly: success against Dutch and French Causation and consequence Target Step 6 Stretch to Step 7