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- HISTORY in the NATIONAL CURRICULUM
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- January 1995. HMSO.
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- Relating to Key Stage 3, the latest government
- document states :
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- 'Pupils should be taught about changes in the economy, society, culture and
- political structure of Britain form the early Middle Ages to the 20th
- century.
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- They should be taught about aspects of European and non-European history, and
- to make links between historical events and changes in the different periods
- and areas studied.
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- They should be given opportunities to use their historical knowledge to
- evaluate and use sources of information, and to construct narratives,
- descriptions and explanations of historical events and developments.'
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- The document gives details of the STUDY UNITS and KEY ELEMENTS that
- should be taught.
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- The following KEY ELEMENTS would be expected to be developed through the
- study units :
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- 'Pupils should be taught :
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- 1)CHRONOLOGY : to place events, people and changes within a chronological
- framework.
- to use dates, terms and conventions that describe the
- historical period and the passing of time.
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- 2)RANGE AND DEPTH OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING :
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- to analyse the characteristic features of particular periods
- and societies, including the range of ideas, beliefs and
- attitudes of people, and the experience of men and
- women; and to analyse the social, cultural, religious and
- ethnic diversity of the societies studied.
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- to describe, analyse and explain reasons for and results
- of the historical events, situations and changes in the
- period studied.
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- to develop overviews of the main events and changes, both
- within and across periods, by making links between the
- content in different study units and between local,
- British, European and world history.
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- to asses the significance of the main events, people
- and changes studied.
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- 3) INTERPRETATIONS OF HISTORY :
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- how and why some historical events, people, situations
- and changes have been interpreted differently.
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- to analyse and evaluate interpretations.
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- 4) HISTORICAL ENQUIRY :
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- to investigate independently aspects of the periods
- studied, using a range of sources of information,
- including documents and printed sources, artifacts,
- pictures, photographs and films, music and oral
- accounts, buildings and sites.
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- to ask and answer significant questions, to evaluate
- sources in their historical context, identify sources
- for an investigation, collect and record information
- relevant to a topic and reach conclusions.
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- 5) ORGANISATION AND COMMUNICATION :
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- to recall, select and organise historical information,
- including dates and terms.
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- to organise their knowledge and understanding of
- history through the accurate selection and deployment
- of terms necessary to describe and explain the periods
- and topics studied, including......communism,
- fascism, democracy, dictatorship.
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- to communicate their knowledge and understanding of
- history, using a range of techniques, including
- extended narratives and descriptions, and
- substantiated explanations.
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- ATTAINMENT TARGETS
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- LEVEL DESCRIPTIONS
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- 'In deciding a pupil's level of attainment, teachers should judge which
- description best fits the pupil's performance.'
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- 'By the end of Key Stage 3 most pupils should be within the range 3 to 7.
- level 8 is available for very able pupils and, to help teachers differentiate
- exceptional performance at Key Stage 3, a description above Level 8 is provided.'
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- LEVEL 3
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- - pupils show their understanding of chronology by their increasing awareness
- that the past can be split into different periods of time.
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- - pupils recognise some of the similarities and differences between these
- periods.
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- - pupils use dates and terms.
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- - pupils demonstrate factual knowledge and understanding of the main
- events, people and changes in a program of study.
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- - pupils give a few reasons for, and results of, the main events and
- changes.
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- - pupils identify some of the different ways in which the past is
- presented.
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- - pupils find answers to questions by using sources of information in ways
- that go beyond simple observations.
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- LEVEL 4
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- - pupils demonstrate factual knowledge and understanding of aspects of
- history drawn from Key Stages 2 and 3.
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- - they use this to describe characteristic features of past societies and
- periods and to identify changes within and across periods.
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- - they describe some of the main events, people and changes.
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- - the give reasons for, and results of, the main events and changes.
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- - they show how some aspects of the past have been represented and
- interpreted in different ways.
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- - they are beginning to select and combine information from sources.
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- - they are beginning to produce structured work. making appropriate use
- of dates and terms.
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- LEVEL 5
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- This reiterates most of the points of level 4, although it adds comments
- such as :
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- - pupils demonstrate an INCREASING depth of factual knowledge and
- understanding......
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- - they begin to make LINKS between features of past societies and periods.
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- - they describe and make links between relevant reasons for, and the
- results of, events and changes.
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- - ...pupils are beginning to evaluate sources of information.....
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- - they select and organise information to produce structured work....
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- LEVEL 6
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- As above, but adds :
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- - pupils are beginning to analyse the reasons for, and results of,
- events and changes.
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- - pupils describe, and are beginning to explain, different historical
- interpretations of events, people and changes.
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- - the use and evaluate sources of information critically and use this to
- support conclusions.
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- LEVEL 7
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- - pupils make links between their outline and detailed factual historical
- knowledge.
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- - they use this to analyse relationships between features in a particular
- period or society.........
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- - pupils are beginning to show independence in their lines of enquiry.
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- - pupils are beginning to reach substantiated conclusions independently.
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- LEVEL 8
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- As above, also :
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- - pupils set their evaluation and analyses of certain periods in a wider
- historical context.
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- - they are beginning to evaluate different historical explanations.
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- - they use sources of information critically.
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- - they produce consistently well structured narratives, descriptions and
- explanations.
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- The study of abbeys and churches takes place in Study Unit 1.
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- STUDY UNIT 1 : Medieval Realms : Britain 1066-1500
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- Part of the work in this study unit should include :
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- MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
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- d) the structure of medieval society, including the
- role of the Church, e.g. farming,
- crafts,
- towns and trade, etc.
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- e) health and disease, including the Black Death.
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- f) arts and architecture, e.g. literature and
- the English language, castles, cathedrals,
- monastic buildings, parish churches,
- artifacts, paintings.
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- Apologies for any spelling or factual mistakes you may find in this
- text. Please correct any that you find.
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- Jim Fanning
- History Department
- Tideway School
- Southdown Road
- Newhaven
- East Sussex.
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- April 1995.
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