History at key stage 3    (Year 9)

• about some key concepts, values and dispositions underpinning their own treatment within school
• that 'rights' imply 'responsibilities'
• that democracies have ways of safeguarding an individual's rights and responsibilities
• that people's access to human rights can be removed by, for example, the actions of a totalitarian regime

• about Anne Frank and her life in Nazi-dominated Europe
• that Anne Frank's plight was caused by Nazi attitudes towards, and actions against, the Jews
• to identify key steps in the withdrawal of human rights

• about the treatment of Jews in Nazi Germany
• that the Nazi military conquests of much of Europe and Soviet Russia brought millions more Jews under their direct control
• that, through Nazi eyes, Jews represented a 'problem' and a 'threat' which required a 'solution'
• to use prior knowledge and further information to suggest possible explanations

• that the Nazis established ghetto areas for Jews in many major European cities
• to use a range of sources to find out about life in a Jewish ghetto after about 1942

• about what the Nazis meant by the term the 'Final Solution' and the creation of death camps in Eastern Europe
• about forced deportation and the organisation of the camps
• to plan and carry out short investigations and summarise findings for a particular audience

• about the ways in which the Allied liberation of the camps revealed the full horror of the Holocaust, and the evils of the Nazi regime
• to explain contemporary Allied attitudes to those involved in running the death camps
• to assess the immediate and longer-term effects of the death camps through the sources, including the recollections of Holocaust survivors

• to explore a range of questions relating to our understanding of the Holocaust, and to understand that the answers to them have not necessarily been found
• about the role of individuals and organisations in maintaining and opposing the Holocaust
• to research a question and reach a conclusion

• to analyse and evaluate the causes of the Holocaust
• to select, organise and use relevant information to produce a structured narrative on the Holocaust