Build confident KS3-ready historians with this structured Year 6 to Year 7 History Summer Transition Booklet – Core Edition.

This complete resource contains 30 carefully sequenced five-a-day sessions, suitable for summer homework, transition work, tutoring, home learning, intervention or the opening weeks of Year 7.

Ten important historical topics are revisited through three increasingly demanding encounters, helping pupils secure essential knowledge while developing source analysis, causal explanation, comparison and historical judgement.

Topics covered
Roman invasion of Britain
Boudica’s revolt
Hadrian’s Wall
End of Roman rule in Britain
Anglo-Saxon migration and settlement
Viking raid on Lindisfarne
Alfred, Guthrum and the Danelaw
Norman Conquest
Magna Carta
Black Death and labour change
Three connected encounters

Encounter 1 – Knowledge and inference
Chronology, key terminology, supported source inference, provenance and misconception correction.

Encounter 2 – Causation and utility
Interacting causes, causal chains, source usefulness, short- and long-term consequences and PEEL writing about significance.

Encounter 3 – Comparison and judgement
Purposeful comparisons, interpretation testing, change and continuity, balanced argument and criteria-based conclusions.

Core features
two-page knowledge organiser;
30 structured sessions;
modernised extracts from named historical sources;
clear provenance information;
concise causation-context boxes;
independent retrieval and explanation;
source utility and limitation tasks;
misconception warnings and method tips;
generous writing space;
progress tracker;
final reflection and September handover page.

A complete 34-page solution and teaching bank accompanies the 36-page student booklet, with accurate model answers, source references, historical qualifications and acceptable alternatives.

The resource is undated and evergreen, allowing it to be reused every summer.

Included
Core student booklet PDF;
complete Core solution and teaching bank PDF;
print-ready A4 formatting.

Suitable for: Year 6 summer homework, KS2–KS3 transition, Year 7 preparation, tutoring, home education, intervention and September baseline work.