News Stories 3 Some more interesting news stories - I use some of them to discuss SSMC issues I find they encourage whole class reading also. You could attach a string of them and loop them to show in your form room in the background!!

Some more interesting news stories - I use some of them to discuss SSMC issues I find they encourage whole class reading also. You could attach a string of them and loop them to show in your form room in the background!!

Some more interesting news stories - I use some of them to discuss SSMC issues I find they encourage whole class reading also. You could attach a string of them and loop them to show in your form room in the background!! With many of these I have also included the direct video clip relevant to the story. Kind Regards Steven There is no delight in owning anything unshared. Seneca quotes (Roman philosopher, mid-1st century AD)

A You Say We Pay style quiz ATB Steven

Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC & Bar, MC (9 November 1884 – 4 August 1917) was a British medical doctor and British Army officer who is one of only three people to be awarded a Victoria Cross twice.

A woman had a portion of her skull stored in her stomach for 42 days following brain surgery over the summer. Jamie Hilton, a former Mrs. America pageant contestant, suffered a traumatic head injury after falling about 10 feet from a platform onto rocks in Hells Canyon, Idaho, during a fishing trip with her husband and brother-in-law in June. According to the Deseret News, doctors at the Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center removed about 25 percent of her skull and stored it in her stomach to keep it nourished while her brain healed.

Meet the pint-sized powerhouse: Boy, 7, is so strong he can pull a car along Most children are told to eat their greens if they want to grow up to be big and strong. And this seven-year-old boy clearly needs no encouragement to clear his plate of vegetables. The schoolchild is so powerful he can already pull cars along, carry his father and lift huge, heavy sacks of grain and rest them on his shoulders. And all without breaking a sweat.

A hound the world in 80 days: Meet Oscar, the canine globe-trotting sensation . Oscar is a dog without equal. This year, he travelled across an incredible five continents, 29 countries and stopped off everywhere from the Eiffel Tower to the Taj Mahal.

The Cross and the Switchblade is a book written in 1962 by pastor David Wilkerson with John and Elizabeth Sherrill. It tells the true story of Wilkerson's first five years in New York City, where he ministered to disillusioned youth, encouraging them to turn away from the drugs and gang violence they were involved with. In 1972, the book was adapted into a comic book published by Fawcett Comics under their Spire Christian Comics label.

The Dickin Medal was instituted in 1943 in the United Kingdom by Maria Dickin to honour the work of animals in war. It is a bronze medallion, bearing the words 'For Gallantry' and 'We Also Serve' within a laurel wreath, carried on a ribbon of striped green, dark brown and pale blue. It is awarded to animals that have displayed 'conspicuous gallantry or devotion to duty while serving or associated with any branch of the Armed Forces or Civil Defence Units'. The award is commonly referred to as 'the animals ‘Victoria Cross'.

Red Dog (c. 1971 – 21 November 1979) was a Kelpie/cattle dog cross that was well known for his travels through Western Australia's Pilbara region. There is a statue in his memory in Dampier, which is one of the towns to which he often returned. He is frequently referred to as a 'Red Kelpie'or a 'Red Cloud Kelpie'.

Hundreds of RAF Bomber Command veterans have been getting a first look at the new memorial in London's Green Park honouring the sacrifice of 55,573 of their comrades during World War II.

Lonesome George, the LAST giant Galapagos Islands turtle, dies at the age of 100 with video links.

The story of 'Stubby' the American pit-bull terrier.

The London matchgirls’ strike of 1888 was a strike of the women and teenage girls working at the Bryant and May Factory in Bow, London. The strike was caused by the poor working conditions in the match factory, including fourteen-hour work days, poor pay, excessive fines, and the severe health complications of working with white phosphorus, such as phossy jaw, but was sparked by the dismissal of one of the workers on or about 2 July 1888.[

Objectives: To learn about the Tudor Succession after the death of Mary I in 1558. To understand the Elizabethan Settlement.

Resources to support these objectives: To know who were the Tudors and what was expected of a Monarch. To understand the importance of a single event in the past such as the Battle of Bosworth. To understand what is meant by the Tudor monarchy. To know who Henry VII was and how he restored order in England after the Wars of the Roses. To understand the concept of change.

Resources/activities looking at how and why did Edward VI change the Church in England? Thanks to the author of the 2nd part of this resource.

Resources to support Edexcel, Religion and Society 3rd Edition, Crime and Punishment, Pg 102 Warning some disturbing pictures included.

Revision activities for Year 7 prior to exam assessment. Topics include: Anachronisms, Evidence, Bias, Chronology, Castles, Feudal System, Law and Order and Thomas Becket, Can be worked through by pupils in an IT suite/ laptops etc