7–10History 7–10 Syllabus (2024)
The new History 7–10 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027 and will replace the History K–10 Syllabus (2019).
2025 and 2026 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2027 – Start teaching the new syllabus
School sectors are responsible for implementing syllabuses and are best placed to provide schools with specific guidance and information on implementation given their understanding of their individual contexts. Schools may choose to implement the new syllabus during the planning and preparation phase.
Content
Stage 4
This section outlines the historical concepts relevant to each focus area, which are to be integrated with the content.
Some aspects of a society, event or development are dynamic and change over time and others remain the same
Relationship between continuity and change in a historical context
Ways in which different factors can lead to immediate and long-term changes
Events, decisions, and developments in the past that produce later actions, results or effects
Changing interpretations of historical events from different points of view
How points of view can be shaped by available sources of information
Thinking critically and identifying bias and omissions
Impact of a group, individual, idea, belief, practice or event on their time or later periods
Importance assigned to a historical site, artefact or source
Historical accounts and interpretations that are debated and challenged
Different methodologies and evidence used by historians and archaeologists to gather and analyse information, leading to varied interpretations of the same events