A complete 7-week scheme of work for KS2 based on Henry VIII and his Tudor World.
Objectives covered include:
Henry and his 8 wives
Life as a Tudor king
Portraits and their importance
Henry's divorce
The break from Rome and it's consequences.
Each lesson is fully resourced and includes a high-quality PPT presentation.
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This set of resources is designed for teaching the KS1 History unit about the Great Fire of London. It is suitable for Year 2 children and more able Year 1 children.
The bundle includes all the planning, lessons and activities necessary to teach the topic. The planning can be downloaded for free here. Lessons include:
L1 - Introduction and timeline activity
L2 - Finding out about the Great Fire of London from Samuel Pepys’ diary
L3 - Sequencing the events of the Great Fire of London
L4 - Understanding why the Great Fire of London spread so quickly
L5 - Exploring how London changed after the Great Fire
L6 - Understanding how fire safety has changed since the Great Fire
Optional FREE lesson:
Unscrambling sentences about the Great Fire of London
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This 20 minute script was written by an experienced primary school Head of English who is also, outside of school, an award-winning writer. The script was penned for a high ability Year 4 class but is suitable for performance by any year group in KS2 or 3. The script is deliberately humorous, yet is also full of informative and educational learning opportunities about the ancient Maya culture. The script has 30 parts but these could easily be split or doubled up depending on the number of children involved.
**Tudor Assembly Script - Focuses on the life of Henry VIII and what life was like during the Tudor period. In a history style show. There are 42 parts, however, you are able to edit the document yourselves and add or change this.
This was a huge success in my school - enjoy! x
Get ready for The Aztecs! These 10 outstanding history and geography lessons are the perfect way to teach your children all about the Aztecs over a half term or term. This unit is packed with 46 files!
Children will begin with where and when the Aztecs lived to using real-life artefacts to discover more. Packed with exciting videos and resources, this unit comes fully resourced and planned with detailed lesson plans provided for each lesson.
Created by an experienced humanities subject lead, these lessons have been used in a real classroom with real students across KS2.
Children will find out about:
When and where they lived
Aztec artefacts
Aztec artefacts
Everyday life
Aztec Gods
Tenochtitlan (Aztec capital city)
Aztec clothing
Sacrifices
Designing an Aztec chocolate bar
Aztec diet
Resources included:
★ x10 PowerPoints
★ x10 Lesson Plans
★ Starter assessment
★ Blank map of Mexico worksheet
★ Complete map of Mexico
★ Timeline worksheet
★ Timeline answers sheet
★ Civilisation video notes worksheet
★ Video about Aztec civilisations
★ Artefact pictures
★ Artefact teacher notes
★ Artefact discussion questions
★ Solving mysteries video
★ Artefact pictures and information sheets
★ Artefacts worksheet
★ 25 Facts about Aztecs video
★ Aztec Empire video
★ x2 Everyday Aztec life texts
★ Fact file template
★ Note taking sheet
★ x2 differentiated Aztec gods worksheets
★ Aztec gods information sheet
★ Aztec gods fact table
★ Aztec gods note taking sheet
★ Aztec gods Top Trumps template
★ Top 10 Aztec gods facts sheet
★ Life in Tenochtitlan information sheets
★ Tenochtitlan maps
★ Life in Tenochtitlan video
★ Clothing fact sheets
★ Clothing worksheet
★ Aztec fashion video
★ Discussion sentence starters mat
★ Chocolate bar design sheet
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A set of Tudor display resources to print - posters, titles, banners, and borders.
Headings
Henry VIII Banner: Prints onto 2 A4 sheets, bordered with pictures of his wives.
The Tudors title: 3 versions - black lettering, red lettering, and embedded Tudor Rose lettering
The Tudors A-Z lettering: 2 versions, one with embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering.
The Tudors Banner: 2 versions, one with text embedded with the Tudor Rose, the other with red lettering
'The Tudors' lettering to cut out: large lettering, fills 3 A4 pages.
Borders - for display boards
Henry VIII's wives border
Tudor rose border
Posters
The Tudors posters: 12 A4 posters:-
Tudor punishment
Tudor clothes for women
Tudor clothes for men
Tudor world map
Tudor British Isles map
Tudor surgery
Tudor medicine
Tudor houses
Tudor theatre
Tudor explorers (x2)
Tudor artefacts
Tudor woodcuts: 17 Tudor images made for illustrations in printed materials:-
Tudor house building
Tudor fish market
Tudor geographer
Tudor coin makers
Tudor warfare
Tudor fun and games
Tudor shepherds
Tudor hunting lessons
Tudor village life
Tudor beggar
Tudor fool
Tudor printers
Tudor water carrier
Tudor shoe makers
Tudor school punishment
Tudor scribe
Tudor engravers
The Tudor Monarchs: Six posters, each containing a Tudor monarch, with a picture and the dates they reigned, plus an A4 title 'The Tudor dynasty 1485 - 1603'.
The six wives of Henry VIII: Six posters each containing a wife, with the dates they were married, how many children they had, and when and how Henry got rid of them. Also contains a title.
The Tudors timeline: 24 pages of the main events that occurred between 1485 and 1603. The dates are displayed along the top so they can be placed along the wall in a timeline. Each event contains pictures and descriptions.
Tudor coat of arms: The coat of arms of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I.
The Tudor Rose: a large Tudor Rose to print
Activities
The Tudors A4 writing border
Tudor rose - black and white
6 x fully resourced lesson packs, 1 x cover lesson and 1 x homework pack. All lessons complete with differentiated PowerPoints and worksheets, clip links, starters, source analysis, evaluation and reliability tasks, plenaries, learning objectives to three levels throughout.
Includes:
An introduction to slavery
The Triangular Trade
The Middle Passage
Life on the plantations
Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
The abolition of slavery
Also includes homework packs and a cover lesson.
Also includes a cover lesson and an additional source question pack which could be set as a homework.
Everything is editable and the pack is very easy to just pick up and use.
Designed to meet Ofsted Good-Outstanding criteria by a experienced History teacher in a UK secondary school.
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Full assembly script attached.
5 - 11 years
20 minutes long (approx.)
This assembly was praised by visiting inspectors so I hope you like it.
All music required is attached + optional PowerPoint (you may want to display some of the images during the assembly).
This set of resources is designed for teaching the Great Fire of London KS1 History unit. You can download the planning for free here. It is suitable for Year 2 children and more able Year 1 children.
The presentation introduces key vocabulary and then takes children through the main events of the Great Fire of London in 1666. The follow-up activity helps children chronologically order these events over the five days of the disaster.
It is recommended that children do the sequencing activity in mixed ability pairs. If necessary, it is possible to stick the activity into an exercise book.
If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.
This is the full collection of all of my lessons about the life and reign of Queen Elizabeth I specifically aimed at KS3 and fully adaptable for KS2.
Please read the list of lessons below carefully so you are fully aware of the resources you are buying.
Lesson 1: The strengths and weaknesses of Elizabeth I.
Lesson 2: Princess Elizabeth’s early life and education.
Lesson 3: the challenges faced by Elizabeth I in 1558.
Lesson 4: The importance of portraits to Queen Elizabeth I
Lesson 5: Queen Elizabeth I’s Religious Settlement.
Lesson 6: Queen Elizabeth’s execution of Mary, Queen of Scots
Lesson 7: The causes of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 8: The events of the invasion of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 9: Explaining the defeat of the Spanish Armada
Lesson 10: Causes of the Elizabethan ‘Age of Exploration’.
This resource is designed for teaching the Great Fire of London KS1 History unit. You can download the planning for free here. It is suitable for Year 2 children and more able Year 1 children.
The presentation introduces the context of the Great Fire of London and challenges children to find reasons for the rapid spread of the fire. The literacy-based activity reinforces this learning .
Two differentiated worksheets challenge children to match reasons for the Great Fire of London with sentence starters:
- the standard activity sheet gives five possible reasons
- an easier activity sheet gives just two reasons to choose from per sentence starter
If you like this resource, we would appreciate a review! We will happily send you a free resource in return for a review or useful suggestions/feedback. Contact us at ed@teachitforward.co.uk.
In this lesson, students will be able to describe the various features of Queen Elizabeth’s Religious Settlement and explain why and how Elizabeth I attempted to seek a ‘Middle Way’ between the Catholic and Protestant Churches at the start of her reign in 1558. Students will learn about the changes introduced by the Religious Settlement and why they were so important at the time.
The lesson contains plenty of activities, printable resources, starter and plenary tasks, engaging background information and discussion points for both high and lower ability students.
All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. Thank you.
A highly-detailed and complete teaching sequence for teaching children how to write a high-quality persuasive letter.
Included are:
Two high-quality end of KS2 standard persuasive letters to use as an example and reference.
A Planning proforma.
A whole PowerPoint teaching sequence that has activities, probing questions and learning opportunities related to:
What is a persuasive letter?
Analysis of the text type.
Comparing two letters (activity included!)
The structure of a persuasive letter
Planning
Writing a high-quality introduction
Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling (First person pronouns, The passive voice, Fronted adverbials, Past tense verbs, Punctuation for Parenthesis)
Writing for effect (Emotive language, sentence structure)
Editing and redrafting
Responding to feedback
Celebrating success
Designed to save you hours and raise attainment, this is an excellent resource to get the best out of your whole cohort.
A lesson to introduce the 6 wives of Henry VIII, it includes various activities for students to engage in to explore the personalty of Henry VIII and also his wives
Full project booklet to accompany a construction project to make Tudor houses. The comprehensive booklet takes the children through the design process. Projects asks the children to make wooden Tudor houses. We made ours by making the timber frames and then used thin card and paper mache to replicate the wattle and daub, so we made the houses in the same way the Tudors would. The booklet includes a comprehension about Tudor houses. Research pages about models of Tudor houses, 45 and 90 degree corners, joining wood, design brief, concept and final designs, safety, evaluation during and after making and more! Both PDF and Word files (for editing) included.
The PowerPoint is 55 pages long. It covers the history of trains from the first vehicle to be pulled on rails over 200 years ago; steam trains; the locomotive; the Rocket; diesel trains, through to the modern electric trains of today.
It is written in the style of a non-fiction book, with a contents page, index and glossary.
It would be suitable for upper KS1 or lower KS2 and can be used in a history topic or as a non-fiction book in English.
Tudor family tree research, cut and paste activity. Great for starting the topic. All cut outs are a perfect fit for the family tree boxes, all you need to do is simply print, cut and stick. Can be blown up to go on display too.
Intro lesson on Henry VIII which goes though his personality with a memory exercise
Worksheets includes one with sources to explore what type of man Henry was with source analysis exercises and questions. Second one is a worksheet and a paired task to explore an overview of Henry VIII life and consider why he is famous
Third worksheet is getting students to explore Henry's problems in his early reign and be an agony aunt- this will lead in to a lesson on Henry VIII great matter.
This Unit of work on Symbolism in Art is suitable for both KS2 and KS3.
There is a wealth of information and resources laid out in chronological order – simply decide on how long you wish to spend on each aspect of the topic.
During the project we look at:
What are Symbols: We look at what symbols are and how they are used in art. Pupils then analyse Holbein’s ‘The Ambassadors’ and investigate the symbols found within the painting. Many fascinating and intriguing stories are hidden within this painting. Unpick the stories by interpreting the symbols.
Sketching & Drawing: The children are challenged to invent their own symbols for a number of abstract nouns.
Investigating Colour: The children learn that colours can be used as symbols too.
Using colours as symbols is introduced through a matching game, then applied to their own symbols.
Telling Stories with Symbols: Pupils use symbols and colours to illustrate a story from their own life.
Resources: Great PowerPoint packed with dozens of clear, visual information that leads the children through the topic. Print of a set of resources and information sheets for the children – including a small booklet packed with examples of signs and symbols.
PowerPoint than gives the children facts about the plague which they can use to create their own factpage. The hyperlinks were to Horribel Histories clips which always go down well. If they don't work just type &'horrible histories plague&'; into youtube.