Humanities Pathway Tracker

Teesside · Migration & the Making of Modern Teesside · Autumn 1, 2026–27 · Progress Schools Tees Valley

The ladder runs BUILD → GROW → LAUNCH.

BUILD is the entry pathway. LAUNCH is the TOP pathway — the GCSE bridge, and the highest reading demand in the scheme. A pupil moving up moves towards LAUNCH, never away from it.

Every outcome below is taken from the deployed lesson files, not from a plan.

The three pathways

🧱 BUILD — entry Named frameworks, sorting and placing, a worked example always visible. Evidence is often a photo, a card or a spoken answer.
🌿 GROW — middle The same history, weighed. Provenance, standpoint, counter-points, and written accounts with a thesis.
🚀 LAUNCH — top (GCSE bridge) Exam-shaped enquiry: source utility on a spectrum, ranked causation, unfamiliar problems tackled by method.

Week-by-week outcomes — mark against the pathway the pupil is ON

PathwayLesson & enquirySuccess looks likeJudgement
Week 1
BUILDThe Local History Timeline
How can clues and centuries help us place local events in a defensible order, from 1000 CE to today?
  • I can place local events on a timeline, earliest on the left
  • I can turn a year into its century (1825 → 19th century)
  • I can use a clue to say WHEN something happened
  • I can say why my order makes sense
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GROWTime Detectives
How can dates, periods and intervals help us build and challenge chronological claims?
  • I can date events AND challenge a suspect date
  • I can explain the clue that gives an event its place
  • I can use century and decade language accurately
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LAUNCHSource Investigation
How far does a source support a claim?
  • I can investigate a source: nature, origin and purpose
  • I can cross-check a claim against a second source
  • I can state a supported first hypothesis
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Week 2
BUILDHistory Detectives
How can we distinguish what a source shows from what we infer or still need to ask?
  • I can say what a source SHOWS
  • I can suggest what a source might MEAN
  • I can back one idea with a detail I can point to
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GROWSource Detectives
How do provenance, content and context affect what a source tells, suggests and cannot prove?
  • I can describe a source's provenance (who, when, why)
  • I can infer meaning and say how confident I am
  • I can judge what a source is USEFUL for
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LAUNCHCause and Consequence Courtroom
Which causes were decisive, contributing or background?
  • I can argue cause and consequence like a courtroom case
  • I can separate long-term causes from triggers
  • I can anticipate and answer an objection
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Week 3
BUILDWhy People Came
How can several causes combine to influence migration to the Tees Valley?
  • I can give a reason why people came to Teesside
  • I can sort reasons into push and pull
  • I can link one reason to one real example
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GROWCause and Consequence
How do personal motives, wider conditions and triggers combine to shape migration and its consequences?
  • I can sort causes into motive, condition and trigger
  • I can rank causes and defend my ranking
  • I can show how two causes connected
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LAUNCHArchive: Nature, Origin and Purpose
What is the source genuinely useful for?
  • I can analyse an archive source's nature, origin and purpose
  • I can evaluate utility FOR a specific question
  • I can corroborate or challenge with a second source
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Week 4
BUILDPeople Who Shaped Britain
How can evidence show why a person or community matters without reducing them to a single story?
  • I can describe what one person or group did
  • I can say one way they shaped Britain
  • I can talk about a community without lumping everyone together
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GROWPeople Who Shaped Britain
How can we explain historical agency while recognising context, collaboration and limits?
  • I can explain what a person did AND the context around them
  • I can weigh personal agency against circumstances
  • I can discuss a community's story with respect and precision
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LAUNCHCentury of Change
How far was the period a turning point?
  • I can describe change and continuity across a century
  • I can judge the pace of change with examples
  • I can explain a turning point and defend the choice
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Week 5
BUILDBig Deal or Small Deal?
How can we judge significance using criteria rather than fame or personal taste?
  • I can say if an event was a big deal or a small deal
  • I can give ONE criterion for my choice
  • I can accept someone else might rank it differently
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GROWHow Big a Deal?
How can criteria, perspective and timescale produce a defensible “it depends” judgement about significance?
  • I can judge significance using named criteria
  • I can show significance DEPENDS on perspective or timescale
  • I can qualify my judgement with 'although' or 'depends'
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LAUNCHPeople and Modern Britain
How far did individuals shape modern Britain?
  • I can explain how migration shaped modern Britain
  • I can use individual stories without losing the big picture
  • I can connect a national pattern to a Teesside example
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Week 6
BUILDPlan the Story
How can sequence, evidence and explanation turn facts into a coherent historical story?
  • I can choose the order for my story
  • I can pick evidence for each part
  • I can say what my story will explain
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GROWPlan the Account
How can a plan organise chronology, causation and source evidence into a coherent, qualified account?
  • I can structure an account: point, evidence, explanation
  • I can choose evidence that actually supports each point
  • I can plan a conclusion that answers the enquiry
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LAUNCHStructured Account
How can a thesis control a sustained argument?
  • I can structure a full account with thesis, evidence, explanation
  • I can plan counter-argument and rebuttal
  • I can plan a conclusion that weighs, not repeats
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Week 7
BUILDTell the Story
How can I communicate a historical account so an audience understands what happened and why?
  • I can tell my story in the order I planned
  • I can use one piece of evidence in it
  • I can finish with what it explains
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GROWWrite the Account ★ ASSESSED
How can I construct an independent account that uses evidence, explanation and a qualified judgement?
  • I can write my account in assessment conditions
  • I can use evidence and explain it, not just drop it in
  • I can answer the enquiry question directly
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LAUNCHSource Assessment ★ ASSESSED
How useful are the sources for the enquiry?
  • I can complete a source assessment in exam-style conditions
  • I can evaluate utility with NOP and corroboration
  • I can sustain a line of argument to a judgement
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Week 8
BUILDWhere in the World?
How does mapping movement change our understanding of migration, connection and place?
  • I can find Teesside and one journey route on a map
  • I can use the key to read a map symbol
  • I can say one way migration shaped where we live
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GROWWhere in the World?
How can atlas evidence and spatial scale deepen—but not replace—historical explanation of migration?
  • I can use index, grid and key to find places
  • I can map a migration route at more than one scale
  • I can explain what the map adds to the story
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LAUNCHOS Map Skills: Unfamiliar Problem
How can map evidence solve an unfamiliar problem?
  • I can apply OS map skills to an unfamiliar problem
  • I can combine grid references, scale and symbols accurately
  • I can justify a route or site choice with map evidence
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Moving a pupil between pathways

Move up when the evidence below is there across two or more weeks — never on one lesson, and never on speed alone. Attendance gaps are not evidence of pathway level.

BUILD → GROW

GROW → LAUNCH

When to move a pupil DOWN

Rarely, and never as a consequence. Move down only if the pupil is producing nothing they can point at as their own across several weeks — and check first whether the barrier is access (reading, writing, stamina, attendance) rather than understanding. Access barriers are solved with arrangements, not with a lower pathway.

Assessed weeks — read before Week 7

GROW Week 7 and LAUNCH Week 7 are assessed under centre-approved conditions.

Generated from the deployed lesson files. If a lesson changes, regenerate this sheet rather than editing it by hand.