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INTERVIEWS & ADMISSIONSSubject Knowledge Audit – History

NAME / DATE

Please self-grade and identify the source/s of your knowledge for each of the topics listed below.

Source of Knowledge / Skills (write one or two codes):

NNone (or below GCSE)

GGCSE (or O Level)

AAdvanced Level (including AVCE, HNC)

DDegree Level (including HND)

PPost-graduate

WWork-related training

Current Level of Knowledge / Skill (write one grade only):

4Little or No Secure Knowledge.

3Basic Personal Knowledge up to GCSE level, however you are not fully aware of possible misconceptions and how to address them and you may inadvertently reinforce misconceptions.

2Secure knowledge / skill up to GCSE that would enable you to teach this to pupils. You would be aware of the common misconceptions in this skill area and you would be able to address these in a lesson.

1Secure knowledge / skill up to A Level standard.

HISTORY TOPIC AREA / KNOWLEDGE
GRADE
(1,2,3 or 4) / SOURCE OF
KNOWLEDGE
(N,G,A,D,P OR W)
1.Britain 1066-1500
1.1The Norman Conquest
1.2Domesday Survey
1.3Crusades
1.4Magna Carta
1.5Black Death
1.6Peasants’ Revolt
1.7Hundred Years War
1.8Wars of Roses
1.9Development of Monarchy 1066-1500
1.10Feudalism
1.11Spread of Monasteries
1.12Towns, guilds & charters
1.13Secular and religious art and architecture
1.14Development of printing
1.15 Scottish, Welsh and Irish perspectives on the themes of this era/period
1.16Other (please indicate)
2.Britain 1500-1700
2.1Reformation in England, Wales and Scotland
2.2Relations with European countries in C16
2.3Plantations in Ireland
2.4Religious persecution and Pilgrim Fathers
2.5Civil Wars in C17
2.6Cromwell and the Commonwealth
2.7Restoration
2.8William and Mary
2.9Reign of Queen Anne
2.10Acts of Union and Wales
2.11Relations between England and Scotland
2.12Jacobite rebellions
2.13Elizabethan Poor Law
2.14East India Company
2.15Changing role of women
2.16Scientific revolution
2.17Other (please indicate)
3.Britain 1700-1900
3.1American Revolution
3.2Napoleonic Wars
3.3Development of empire
3.4Agricultural revolution
3.5Industrial revolution
3.6Development of towns
3.7Slave trade and abolition of slavery
3.8Chartism
3.9Reform Acts
3.10Development of political parties
3.11Ireland and Britain
3.12Social Reform
3.13 Scottish, Welsh and Irish perspectives on the themes of this era/period
3.14 Internal/external migration
3.15Other (please indicate)
4.European Studiespre-1900
4.1Neolithic Revolution
4.2Roman Empire
4.3Europe under Charlemagne
4.4Navigation, exploration and trade in early modern period
4.5Spain and Philip II
4.6DutchRepublic in C17
4.7Ottoman Empire C16 and C17
4.8Louis XIV
4.9Peter the Great
4.10Reformation and Counter-Reformation
4.11French Revolution
4.12Thirty Years War
4.131848 Revolutions
4.14German Unification
4.15Italian Unification
4.16European Imperialism in C19
4.17Other (please indicate)
5.World Studiespre-1900
5.1Imperial China
5.2India from Mughal Empire to the coming of the British
5.3Indigenous Peoples of N. America
5.4Black Peoples of the Americas
5.5Japan under the Shoguns
5.6Zulu Kingdoms
5.7 Islamic Empire 600-1600 AD
5.8Other (please indicate)
6.World Studies after 1900
6.1World War I
6.2World War II
6.3Russian Revolution
6.4Depression and New Deal in USA
6.5 Civil Rights Movement in USA
6.6 Genocide including the Holocaust
6.7Rise of National Socialism in Germany
6.8Emergence of Japan as a World Power
6.9Partition of Ireland
6.10Rise of Modern China
6.11Fascism in Italy
6.12Vietnam War
6.13League of Nations and role of United Nations
6.14Development of E.U.
6.15Science and technology
6.16Development of Welfare State
6.17 Effects of 20th century globalisation
6.18Cold War
6.19 Decolonisation and independence
6.20Other (please indicate)
7.GCSEspecific topic areas not aforementioned
7.1OCR MW International relations 1918-2001
7.2OCR MW China 1950-81
7.3OCR MW Germany 1925-55
7.4OCR MW Poland 1956-90
7.5 OCR MW Russia 1928-64
7.6 OCR MW South Africa 1960-94
7.7OCR MW The USA 1919-48
7.8OCR MW The USA 1945-74
7.9OCR MW Migration to Britain c1000-2001
7.10OCR MW Power: Monarchy and Democracy in Britain c1000-2014
7.11 OCR MW War and British Society c790-2010
7.12OCR MW The Impact of Empire on Britain 1688-1730
7.13OCR MW Urban Environments: Patterns of Migration
7.14OCR MW The English Reformation c1520-1550
7.15OCR MW Castles: Form and function c1000-1750
7.16OCR MW Personal rule to Restoration 1629-1660
7.17 OCR SHP The People’s Health c1250-present
7.18 OCR SHP Crime and Punishment c1250-present
7.19 OCR SHP Migrants to Britain c1250-present
7.20 OCR SHP The Norman Conquest 1065-1087
7.21 OCR SHP The Elizabethans 1580-1603
7.22 OCR SHP Britain in Peace and War 1900-1918
7.23 OCR SHP Viking Expansion c750-1050
7.24 OCR SHP The Mughal Empire 1526-1707
7.25 OCR SHP The Making of America 1789-1900
7.26 OCR SHP The First Crusade c1070-1100
7.27 OCR SHP Aztecs and the Spanish Conquest 1519-1535
7.28 OCR SHP Living under Nazi Rule 1933-45
7.29 AQA America 1840-1895
7.30 AQA Germany 1890-1945
7.31 AQA Russia 1894-1945
7.32 AQA America 1920-1973
7.33 AQA Conflict and Tension 1894-1918
7.34 AQA Conflict and Tension 1918-1939
7.35 AQA Conflict and Tension between East and West 1945-1972
7.36 AQA Conflict and Tension in Asia 1950-1975
7.37 AQA Conflict and Tension 1990-2009
7.38 AQA Britain: Health and the people c1000- present
7.39 AQA Britain: Power and the people c1170-present
7.40 AQA Britain: Migration, Empires and the people c790-present
7.41 AQA Norman England c1066-1100
7.42 AQA Medieval England: the reign of Edward I 1272-1307
7.43 AQA Elizabethan England c1568-1603
7.44 AQA Restoration England 1660-1685
7.45 Edexcel Crime and Punishment in Britain c1000-present
7.46 Edexcel Whitechapel c1870-1900
7.47 Edexcel Medicine and Britain c1250-present
7.48 Edexcel British sector of the Western Front 1914-18
7.49 Edexcel Warfare and British Society c1250-present
7.50 Edexcel London and the Second World War 1939-45
7.51 Edexcel Anglo-Saxon and Norman England c1060-88
7.52 Edexcel The reigns of Richard I and King john 1189-1216
7.53 Edexcel Henry VIII and his ministers 1509-40
7.54 Edexcel Early Elizabethan England 1558-88
7.55 Edexcel Spain and the ‘New World’ c1490-1555
7.56 Edexcel British America 1713-83
7.77 Edexcel The American West c1835-1895
7.78 Edexcel Superpower relations and the Cold War 1941-91
7.79 Edexcel Conflict in the Middle East 1945-95
7.80 Edexcel Russia and the Soviet Union 1917-41
7.81 Edexcel Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918-39
7.82 Edexcel Mao’s China 1945-76
7.83 Edexcel the USA 1954-75
8.Historical methodology
8.1Using Evidence
8.2Interpretation
8.3Causation/consequence
8.4Change, continuity and development
8.5Chronological understanding
8.6 Significance
8.7 Empathy (incl. Cultural, Ethnic and Religious diversity)
8.8 Historical Enquiry
8.9 Communicating About the Past

SUBJECT CURRICULUM KNOWLEDGE AUDIT

HISTORY

Knowledge Grade0None or recalled from own experience as pupil/student

1Outline knowledge based on general reading or hearsay

2Detailed knowledge based on specialistreading or recent

experience of schools

HISTORY EDUCATION TOPIC / KNOWLEDGE GRADE
(0 or 1 or 2)
1National Curriculum Orders for History at KS2-4
2Regulations and Codes of Practice for GCSE History
3GCSE Syllabuses and Examinations offered by one or more boards
4Regulations and Codes of Practice for AS and A level
5AS/A level Syllabuses and Examinations offered by one or more boards
6Research into children’s thinking in History
7Research into effective History teaching
8Research into common errors and misconceptions made and held by pupils
9Resources for use of teaching History
10Use of Information Technology in History teaching
11Approaches to teaching History to low attaining pupils
12Approaches to teaching History to gifted and high attaining pupils
13Development of pupils’ literacy within History teaching

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