During key stage 3, pupils learn about significant events and people in the history of Britain from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, along with key aspects of European and world history. They learn to show their understanding by comparing the structure of societies and economic, cultural and political developments and by making connections between events and changes in the different periods and areas studied. They use a wide range of sources of information to analyse and explain the past, and they learn how it can be represented and interpreted in different ways.
Pupils will learn about local, national, European and international history through six areas of study:
- Britain 1066-1500
- Britain 1500-1750
- Britain 1750-1900
- a European study before 1914
- an African, American, Asian or Australasian society before 1900
- a world study after 1900
At the end of Key Stage 3 (age 14), most children are able to:
- know about historical events and people
- describe the important features of the periods and societies they have studied
- make links between and within some of these features
- explain the reasons for (and the results of) events, situations and changes
- give explanations about why the past is depicted and interpreted in different ways
- use different sources of information to formulate a view about an historical issue
- order their thoughts to produce structured work, using dates and special historical terms
