KS3 Isle of Wight As Island of Empire – Local Study (under development)


KS3 History Curriculum Links	Extend and deepen chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance Use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends, frame historically-valid questions and create their own structured accounts, including written narratives and analyses Understand methods of historical enquiry, including how different types of historical sources are used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed Gain historical perspective by placing growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding connections between local, national and international history; between cultural, economic, military, political, religious and social history A study of a significant issue in world history (slavery and the transatlantic trade in tobacco, rice, sugar and rum) and its interconnections with other world developments
Key Themes	On the trade routes of empire: tobacco, rice, spirits and smuggling Emergence of a leisured Island class: bathing, villas and royalty Building fast ships of empire and the quest for speed Defending the Island from becoming a staging post for invasion