During Year 8 students study Britain 1500-1750 (the Tudor & Stuart Period), Black Peoples of the Americas, and complete a local history study.
KEY WORDS
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Tudors, Stuarts, Hanoverians, Monarchs, Reigns, Centuries, Plague, Union Flag, Execution, Armada, Protestant, Catholic, Civil War
Henry VIII, usefulness, Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Catherine Parr, Anne of Cleeves, Jane Seymour, Katherine Howard, heir
Anne Boleyn, Luther, Reformation, Pope, Catholic, English Catholic, Protestant, dissolution of the monasteries, Fountains Abbey, refectory, Chapter House, Prior, monks, white monks, Thomas Cromwell, vows, lay brothers, Fountains Hall
This assessment is used to assess student progress against target National Curriculum Levels
Protestant, Roman Catholic, pope, altar, mass, Bible, Latin, monks, priest
Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, Elizabeth I, Margaret Clitheroe, exile, execution, martyr, heretic, disguise, priest's holes
French Ambassador, portraits, Rainbow Portrait, symbols, ermine, serpent, chastity, French Ambassador, Virgin Queen
Mary Queen of Scots, Dudley, Scots, cousin, heir, exile, rebellion, plotting, James VI of Scotland, conspiracy
Philip of Spain, execution, Sir Francis Drake, privateers, Netherlands, Dutch Protestants, 'singed the King of Spain's Beard', fire ships, crescent formation, Duke of Parma
Social classes, Rogues & Vagabonds, Cut purse, Upright Man, Clapper dudgeons, Counterfeit Crank, arranged marriages, street slang, upper class, middle class, beggars, powerless, landowners
Puritans, Strict, Elizabeth's middle way, Protestant
This exam reviews all Year 8 work covered so far. The Year 8 Revision List includes revision quizzes for students to complete
Balanced Answer, Guy Fawkes, treason, conspirators, plotters, Catesby, Gunpowder Plot, Parliament, torture, Cecil, defence, prosecution, accused, execution
Long & short term causes, Civil War, Henrietta Maria, Catholic, Ship Money, Rump Parliament, Parliamentarians, Puritans, Round Heads, Royalists, Prince Rupert, Protectorate, Battle of Naseby, mercenaries, New Model Army, Lord Manchester, pikes, muskets, cavalry, execution
Student Work : Civil War booklet
Student Work : Newspaper front pages based on the death of Charles I
Writing frames for newspaper front pages about the death of Charles I from a Parliamentary perspective and a Royalist perspective
Restoration, Pepys, Plague, Fire of London
This assessment is used to assess student progress against target National Curriculum Levels
Native Americans, Columbus, New World, Slavery, Profit, Empire, Triangular Trade, Middle Passage, Raw Materials
Kidnap, coffle, disease, shackles, leg irons, overcrowding, interpretation
auction, branding, plantation, sugar, cotton, anansi stories, culture
rebellion, abolition, abolitionists, Olaudah Equiano, Wilberforce, Parliament, American Civil War, Confederates, Union Side, General Grant, Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, Assassination
discrimination, KKK, WASPs, civil rights, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Black Power
This assessment is used to assess student progress against target National Curriculum Levels
Local History Project (Victorian)
Smuggling, Ship Inn, Victorian, Pease, Quaker, Zetland Hotel, Vertical Hoists, Cliff Lifts, Iron Stone mining, Census, Jewel Streets, Ha'penny Bridge
This involves a visit & slide show by Tony & Cathy Lynn. It may also involve a site visit.
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A number of relevant community projects include the Cliff Lift project, and Specialist School Launch Day Activities and History Club projects
Links to student work can be seen from the Victorian part of the Local History Section of the Website