Progress Schools Tees Valley · Made by Matt

Humanities — Teesside Migration & Identity Upgraded

AQA Unit Award Scheme · ‘History around us’ · Autumn 1 · a connected 8-week enquiry across three pathways

One migration-and-identity enquiry, rooted in the Tees Valley, taught at three levels of challenge. Every lesson runs the Lundy Loop — Space, Voice, Audience, Influence — and every capture reaches for the next pathway up. Pick a pathway, open its Scheme of Work, and launch any week.

The Build → Grow → Launch pathway

Progress Schools groups learning into three ability-and-confidence pathways. The same enquiry runs through all three — the difference is the level of historical reasoning expected, and how much independence the evidence asks for.

BUILD · ExploreFoundational. Place, notice, take first evidence. Confidence before complexity. Light calm studio.
GROW · DefensibleMiddle. Rank causes, qualify judgements, explain with evidence. Week 7 assessed account.
LAUNCH · GCSE BridgeMost rigorous. Source utility, causal courtroom, sustained thesis. Week 7 assessed source assessment.

The Lundy Loop in every lesson

Four zones, one loop — identical across the whole Teesside programme (art and humanities). Colour marks the zone; the loop always closes, even on a hard day, with the week’s stamped ticket.

SPACE — a usable route inVOICE — a real judgementAUDIENCE — heard & validatedINFLUENCE — it changes something

Pathways, schemes of work & lessons

BUILD Explore

Foundational Explore tier. Pupils place events, notice sources and take their first evidence — building confidence before complexity. A light, calm history studio.

Light studio · zones: SPACE · VOICE · AUDIENCE · INFLUENCE

GROW Defensible history

The middle tier. Pupils move beyond activity into defensible history — ranking causes, qualifying judgements and explaining with evidence. Week 7 is an assessed account. A dark studio register.

Dark studio · ★ W7 assessed · zones: SPACE · VOICE · AUDIENCE · INFLUENCE

LAUNCH GCSE Bridge

The most rigorous tier. Pupils reason like GCSE historians — weighing source utility, arguing causation in a courtroom, and sustaining a thesis. Week 7 is an assessed source assessment.

GCSE bridge · ★ W7 assessed · zones: SPACE · VOICE · AUDIENCE · INFLUENCE

Before teaching: add centre-approved, credited Teesside sources, images and licensed OS-map extracts; match evidence to the exact registered AQA UAS unit; apply centre-approved assessment conditions and access arrangements in Week 7 (GROW & LAUNCH). AO mapping is developmental, not a GCSE grade.
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