During Year 7 you can expect to study the following topics;
The Middle Ages
- Norman conquest
- Norman control – Castles and Feudal system
- Death of Archbishop Thomas Becket
- King John – an evil King?
- The Medieval English Church
- The ‘Black Death’
- The Peasants Revolt
- Medieval weapons and warfare
- The Princes in the Tower
Tudors and Stuarts
- The European and English religious reformations
- Mary Queen of Scots and plots against Queen Elizabeth I
- The Spanish Armada
- The Gunpowder Plot conspiracy
The Lancastrian who seized the throne from the Yorkist grasp! Was this King right to change the English Church for the sake of Anne Boleyn and a male heir? Was the failure of the Armada down to good luck with the weather or an impressive effort by the Royal Navy?