Life and power in Medieval England - Year 7 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 7 on life in Medieval England

This unit is fully resourced for each lesson, including clearly chunked activities and assessment points at the end of each unit based around a central question.

The following lessons are included (each roughly 1hr to deliver):

1. Life in a medieval village
2. Medieval jobs
3. Medieval health and diets
4. What was life like for disabled people in Medieval England?
5. Medieval crime and punishment
6. The Murder of Thomas Becket
7. How powerful was the church?
8. The Medieval Islamic world
9. How successful were The Crusades?
10. Edict of Expulsion - why?
11. The Black Death
12. The Peasants Revolt

All units focus on the core skills of history (chronology, causation, change and continuity, historiography, source-analysis and judgement making), and are part of an overall theme for the year (For Year 7 this is ‘The Changing Nature of Power’, for Year 8 it is ‘Progress vs Regress’ and for Year 9 it is ‘Conflict’).

Each unit is also designed to focus on inclusive, social, history where possible. This aims to include the experiences of black people, disabled, LGBT and other minority groups throughout history. This innovative approach is in line with Ofsted’s framework regarding inclusivity in the curriculum and avoids the issue of tokenism within history.

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