7–10History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025)
The new History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2025) is to be implemented from 2028 and will replace the History Elective 7–10 Syllabus (2019).
2026 and 2027 – Plan and prepare to teach the new syllabus
2028 – 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
Life Skills
Through collaborative curriculum planning, it may be decided that Life Skills outcomes and content are the most appropriate option for some students with intellectual disability.
Investigating histories of the medieval and early modern world
Teachers select at least ONE option from the list below:
- A dynasty or royal house from a country or region in the medieval or early modern world
- Law and justice in a medieval or early modern society
- Significant group or individual in a medieval or early modern society
- Slavery and slave trades in the medieval or early modern world
- The Golden Age of Piracy
- The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- Trade, pilgrimage and cultural exchange across the medieval or early modern world
- Women in the medieval or early modern world
Content in Thinking and working historically outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of the process of historical inquiry.
LoadingUse relevant historical concepts and skills
Engage in the process of historical inquiry, including the use of sources
Explore historical sources to learn about life in the medieval and early modern world
Organise historical events or actions in chronological order
Communicate ideas about the past through oral, visual, written or multimodal texts
Roles of people in students’ families, familiar groups or the community
Familiar cultural traditions
Reasons communities have rules and laws
Who has power and authority in a community
Ways that people obtain goods and services today
Aspects of the medieval or early modern world that can still be observed today
Purpose of law and justice in a selected medieval or early modern society
Key principles of law and justice in a selected medieval or early modern society
Key groups or individuals that maintained law and justice in a selected medieval or early modern society
How different groups or individuals in a selected medieval or early modern society were treated under the law
How the laws of a selected medieval or early modern society have influenced laws or ideas today