History

104 free lessons in The School on Ai Quran, from Early Years to GCSE.

Early Years

• Then and now
• My family story
• Old things and new things
• Days we remember
• When I was a baby
• Toys long ago
• Homes long ago
• A long time ago
• Getting around long ago
• What people wore long ago
• Black-and-white photographs
• Having fun without a screen, long ago
• Letters and messages long ago
• Shops long ago
• Visiting the doctor long ago
• Wash day long ago

Key Stage 1

• Changes within living memory
• Beyond living memory: the Great Fire of London
• Lives of significant people
• My local area in the past
• Putting events on a timeline
• Explorers and their journeys
• Toys then and now
• School then and now
• Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot
• The first flight
• Neil Armstrong and the Moon landing
• Rosa Parks and fairness
• How my school has changed
• Visiting a local museum
• Interviewing someone who remembers
• A local building from the past

Key Stage 2

• The first civilisations
• Ancient Egypt
• Romans, Saxons and Vikings in Britain
• A contrasting society: Baghdad around 900 CE
• Stone Age to Iron Age
• Ancient Greece
• The Roman Empire and its impact on Britain
• Anglo-Saxons and Scots settle in Britain
• The Vikings and the struggle for England
• Crime and punishment through time
• The changing power of the monarch
• Using evidence: how we know about the past
• A local history study
• The Indus Valley civilisation
• Pyramids: how and why they were built
• Skara Brae: a Stone Age village
• Bronze Age Britain: metal and trade
• Roman roads and engineering
• Tutankhamun's tomb: the discovery that amazed the world
• Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and kings
• Sutton Hoo: a ship burial mystery
• Hadrian's Wall: life on the frontier
• The Battle of Hastings, 1066
• The Bayeux Tapestry: a story in stitches
• The Benin Kingdom, West Africa
• The Maya civilisation
• The Olympic Games: ancient and modern
• The Black Death in Britain
• The Tudors: Henry VIII and the break with Rome
• The Industrial Revolution: life in a factory town
• World War Two: the Home Front
• Dating the past: how historians work out when

Key Stage 3

• The transatlantic slave trade
• Votes for women
• 1066 and medieval power
• Renaissance, Reformation and revolution in ideas
• Empire, industry and abolition
• The twentieth-century world
• Local history: testing a claim about your area
• The Black Death and what followed
• Medieval life: village, town and church
• Civil war and the limits of monarchy
• The Industrial Revolution: work, cities and protest
• Before 1066: invasion, settlement and what stayed
• Mali and the trans-Saharan trade
• The Holocaust
• The Elizabethan age: religion, exploration and rivalry
• The Cold War: a divided world
• Resistance and rescue during the Holocaust
• The Nuremberg trials and international justice
• Reading a war memorial as evidence
• Oral history: interviewing a witness to the recent past
• Sutton Hoo and what a grave tells you
• Alfred the Great and the making of England
• The Mongol Empire: conquest and connection
• Benin: bronzes, kingship and a contested legacy

GCSE

• Using sources
• Interpretations, and why historians differ
• A thematic study: medicine through time
• Exam technique and revision
• Causation: why things happened
• Writing about change over time
• The period study: writing about a stretch of time
• The historic environment: studying a site
• Explaining significance
• Consequence: short-term and long-term effects
• Comparing: similarity and difference
• The depth study method: a short period in intense focus
• Reading visual and statistical sources: photographs, cartoons and graphs
• Making an inference: reading between the lines of a source
• Chronology and periodisation: how historians divide up time
• Second-order concepts working together: writing a synoptic answer

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