This resource includes 12 lessons with full PowerPoints, worksheets, an assessment and an independent homework project instructions. This scheme of work has been in the making for five years as I teach castles to year 7 every academic year. This scheme of works allows students to think about change and continuity from castle beginnings as 'forts' to stone square keep castles, all the way to nuclear war bunkers and the implications of modern warfare. I also link these lessons to their end of year trip visiting Skipton castle. All lessons and worksheets are clearly labelled to the corresponding lesson which they belong. Lesson 1 - What is a fort? Lesson 2 - Where to build a castle? Lesson 3 - Motte and bailey castles Lesson 4 - Stone square keep castles Lesson 5 - Jobs in medieval castles Lesson 6 - Concentric castles Lesson 7 - Attacking a castle Lesson 8 - Castles today Lesson 9 - Air Raid shelters Lesson 10 - Nuclear War shelters Lesson 11 - Assessment Lesson 12 - Peer assessment of castle projects

The timeline spans from Edward the Confessor all the way to our current queen. All monarchs are on their own A5 page with a picture and the dates that they ruled over England. I have used this timeline in my classroom. It is currently laminated and pinned across two of my walls. Students over the past two years have asked many questions from the timeline and have gained a clearer idea of time periods in British History.

Classic crime and punishment lesson for KS3! Homework worksheet included.

This homework booklet has a mixture of creative, literacy, numeracy and research tasks. These also link into different historical skills which Year 7's are introduced to such as chronological understanding, source enquiries and comprehension as well as significance. I gave this to my classes on week 2 of the academic year and collected during the last week of the first half term.

This lesson includes an introductuion to the definitions of ‘power’ and ‘conflict’. Students explore this through a variety of tasks. Students then explore a few poems from the cluster just by using poem titles and poet names only. Furthermore, there is slide of ‘notes’ listing timings for all activities and lesson parts. Lesson Objectives: To explore and grasp definitions of ‘power’ and ‘conflict’ To provide on introduction to the unit of study

Included: -tutor time activities for KS3, KS4 and KS5 -advert for all school apprenticeships competition to promote engagement and student research

Classic lesson on Henry VIII's wives for KS3. Resource includes: reasons for marriage in Tudor times, web link to horrible histories song, information about each wife and printable worksheet on one slide for students to think critically about each wife.

This resource includes four lessons: What is your History, Baseline test, what is chronology and introduction to Historical sources. Each lesson has all resources included and has broken down activities and worksheets for both higher and lower ability learners. It also includes a guide to marking lesson four by ability for non History specialists.

I created this for an after school intervention lesson for year 11 (60 minutes) to cover the inference question on paper 3 (4 marks). The PowerPoint includes exam technique tactics, key terminology section and answers to four different practise questions (with an accompanying work booklet for learners to fill in). I created this after attending mock marking training which was led by an EDEXCEL examiner/trainer.

This resources contains four lessons about the Globe Theatre during Shakespeare’s time for KS3. The resource features: PowerPoints, video clips, cloze exercise, interesting facts, match up key features, key words, planning sheet (write a letter task), methodology of letter writing task, model answers, challenge tasks and peer assessment.

The lesson includes: PowerPoint, starter images, video clips, sentence starters and peer assessment. This was created for KS3 students as an introduction to writing to persuade. Students choose whether they think dogs or cats are more invaluable.

This resource contains a full lesson on the Luddites. Learners complete a starter, a move around the room activity and create a memorial site based on a Yorkshire example. Throughout the lesson are objectives for each task using 'medals' criteria.

This resource includes two lessons exploring the poem Remains. Students to understand the poem itself, the context surrounding, sophisticated language and structural features as well as non fiction homework given to better understand the poem and PTSD in modern warfare. Resources include all lesson activities, worksheets and homework needed.

Outstanding lesson to be used for a year 9 group starting a SOW on the rise of Adolf Hitler or could be used as a gentle introduction/revision lesson for a year 10 group.

After working with the Holocaust Educational Trust and attending parts of their CPD programme (including tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau), I came up with this lesson as an introduction to KS3 students.

Two-Three lessons enclosed; introduction to Shakespeare (KS3). The main body of the task is for students to create a leaflet using research on the life of William Shakespeare. Features which are included: PowerPoints for both lessons, video clip, images for students to use on their leaflets, biographical information to print for students, task to enable students to create an effective leaflet, success criteria, peer assessment task and challenge tasks.

This resource includes six worksheets to coincide with section 1 and 2 of EDEXCEL GCSE History unit Medicine through time, c1250-present. Section 1 is about Medieval Medicine and section 2 is about the Medical Renaissance. They are broken down into three sections; Ideas and the causes of diseases, Approaches to prevention and treatment and Case studies (as set out in EDEXCEL specification guidelines). The worksheets also label stretch and challenge key terms for differentiation. The new 9-1 GCSE contains more content than past courses, therefore students would benefit from an overview of key terms to either be set in lessons as a progressive tool or as homework to consolidate learning.

I originally created this series of lessons for KS3 and I also use aspects of these lessons for teaching EDEXCEL GCSE Western front historical environment section. The lessons included are: What is a trench, Trench features, Weapons in WW1, Different aspects of soldiers in WW1 and Conditions in the trenches.

One lesson on an introduction to the convention of a soliloquy. Lesson features two comparative excerpts (Romeo and Juliet and House of Cards), definition task and creativley students write their own soliloquy from three choices.

This resource includes an easy to print assessment for KS3. The assessment includes questions on two short unseen winter poems and a descriptive writing tasks of a winter scene.

This resource includes six worksheets to coincide with section 3 and 4 of EDEXCEL GCSE History unit Medicine through time, c1250-present. Section 3 is about 18th century and 19th century medicine and section 4 is about 1900-present day medicine. They are broken down into three sections; Ideas and the causes of diseases, Approaches to prevention and treatment and Case studies (as set out in EDEXCEL specification guidelines). The worksheets also label stretch and challenge key terms for differentiation. The new 9-1 GCSE contains more content than past courses, therefore students would benefit from an overview of key terms to either be set in lessons as a progressive tool or as homework to consolidate learning.