Year

Ryton Students - Departments – Subject – Overview

Year 7
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
During the year students are formally assessed and given a SAT level for approximately four pieces of work. The topics for assessment are chosen by the individual subject teacher.
Historical Skills	1^st Half term	Test	Help students to understand terms such as: century, decade, chronology and AD/BC
Battle of Hastings	1^st Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Internet research and library books
Feudal System	2^nd Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Internet research and library books
Castles	2^nd Half term	Project Work	Visit a castle, internet research and library books
Power of the Church	3^rd Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Durham Cathedral or a local church
Thomas Becket	3^rd Half term	Sources assessment - SAT Level	Library books. You can visit Canterbury Cathedral
King John	4^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Library books. You can visit the British Library to see the Magna Carta
The Black Death	4^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Look at Atlas to find countries effected by the Black Death
The Peasants’ Revolt	5^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Talk about revolt during your lifetime and their effects e.g. Miners Strike, Poll Tax
Medieval Towns & Villages	5^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Library books and visit York
Exam Preparation	6^th Half term	Exam	Test your children
Voyages of Discovery	6^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Research Columbus, Marco Polo

Year 8
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
During the year students are formally assessed and given a SAT level for approximately four pieces of work. The topics for assessment are chosen by the individual subject teacher.
Henry VIII & the Reformation	1^st Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Library books and visit Hampton Court
Religious Change 1547 - 1603	2^nd Half term	Teacher assessment	Discuss different religions
James I & the Gunpowder Plot	2^nd Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Watch the opening of Parliament
Pilgrim Fathers	2^nd Half term	Sources assessment - SAT Level	Discuss American Thanksgiving and look out for newspaper articles on this topic in November
Charles I & the English Civil War	3^rd Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Watch the film Cromwell
The Interregnum	4^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Watch the film Cromwell
The Plague	4^th Half term	Assessment - Teacher assessment	Visit Eyam in Derbyshire
The Great Fire of London	4^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit the City of London to see St Paul’s Cathedral and the Monument and Wren’s architecture
Causes of the Industrial Revolution	5^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Library books
Domestic System	5^th Half term	Assessment - Teacher assessment	Visit Styal near Manchester
New Inventions & the factory life	5^th Half term	Sources assessment - SAT Level	Visit Styal near Manchester
Life in 19^th Century Towns	6^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Read Dickens’ novels
Cholera	6^th Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Library books
Trade & Slavery	6^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Liverpool Maritime Museum

Year 9
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
During the year students are formally assessed and given a SAT level for approximately four pieces of work. The topics for assessment are chosen by the individual subject teacher.
Causes of World War One	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum, library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Life in the Trenches	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Battle of the Somme	1^st Half term	Assessment - SAT level	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
World War One Weapons	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Recruitment	2^nd Half term	Assessment - SAT Level	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Propaganda	2^nd Half term	Sources assessment – SAT Level	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Role of Women	2^nd Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Causes of World War Two	2^nd Half term	Assessment – SAT level	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Blitzkrieg, Dunkirk & Battle of Britain	3^rd Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes. Memories from relatives and friends
Holocaust	3^rd Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Germany’s Russian campaign	3^rd Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
America & Pearl Harbour	4^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
Home Front	4^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes. Memories from relatives and friends
End of World War Two	5^th Half term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes. Memories from relatives and friends
Atomic Bomb	5^th Half Term	Teacher assessment	Visit Imperial war Museum library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
World War Two Leaders’ Project	5^th Half Term	Teacher assessment	Internet resources, books library books, newspaper articles and television programmes
The Native People of North America Or The Black People of the Americas	6^th Half Term	Teacher assessment	Library books and internet resources

Year 10
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
Causes of the First World War	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis – Bravo Belgium	Library books, historical television programmes Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Trench Warfare	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis – Trench conditions	Library books, historical television programmes. Visit the DLI museum and Imperial War Museum Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Battle of the Somme	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis – Battle of the Somme	Library books, historical television programmes. Visit the DLI museum Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
War in the Air	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
War at Sea	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Home Front	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment Propaganda sources	Look at propaganda in newspapers today Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Contribution of the Empire	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Overview of topic	1^st – 2^nd Half term	Past exam questions Fact test	Revision Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Treaty of Versailles	2^nd Half term	Teacher assessment Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
League of Nations	2^nd Half term	Teacher assessment Past exam question Source analysis Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Weimar Germany	3^rd Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Past exam question Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Hitler’s Germany	3rd Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Past exam question Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Coursework on the Holocaust	4^th & 5^th Half term	Standardised marking	Make sure deadlines are met Watch ‘Life is Beautiful’ film
Causes of World War Two	5^th & 6^th Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk

Year 11
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
Coursework on Evacuation	1^st Half term	Standardised marking	Make sure deadlines are met. To speak to relatives about experiences of evacuation. Visit Eden Camp
USA 1920’s	1^st Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
USA 1930’s	2^nd Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Cold War	3^rd & 4^th Half term	Teacher assessment Source analysis Fact test	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk
Revision	5^th Half term	Fact tests Source analysis Past exam questions	Library books Encourage students to go to www.bitesize.co.uk and www.schoolhistory.co.uk

Year 12
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
French Revolution 1) The Financial and political problems of Louis XVI and the collapse of absolute monarchy 2) The Constitutional experiment, 1789 -92 3) The origins of the war and it’s impact on the course of the revolution, 1792-3 4) The Terror to July 1794: its immediate political and social impact	First Half term Second Half Term Third Half Term Fourth Half Term	Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Library books Revision Encourage students to meet deadlines
Russia in Revolution 1905-1917 1) The Revolution of 1905 2) The impact of the First World War 3) The Provisional Governments and their problems 4) Lenin and the Bolsheviks in 1917	First half term Second half term Third half term Fourth half term	Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Library books Revision Encourage students to meet deadlines
Napoleon 1) The French Revolutionary Armies & their achievements 1792-1802 2) Napoleon’s rise to power 1799-1804 3) Napoleon’s Domestic Reforms in France and their social, religious and political impact to 1815 4) Reasons for initial successes and eventual defeat in the Napoleonic Wars	First Half Term Second Half Term Third Half Term Fourth Half Term	Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Library books Revision Encourage students to meet deadlines

Year 13
Topic Covered	When	Assessment	Opportunities for parents to help
Stalin		Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Revision
America 1945-2001		Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Revision
		Essays, past paper end of unit tests	Revision