Power in Tudor England - Year 7 scheme of learning

A complete unit designed for Year 7 on Tudor England (including all Tudor monarchs: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I).

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. Was Henry VII a gangster?
2. Why did Henry VIII have six wives?
3. Was Henry VIII the worst King in English history?
4. What was it like to be black in Tudor England?
5. What was it like for the common people in Tudor England?
6. How significant was Edward VI’s reign as King?
7. Why did our first Queen rule for only 9 days?
8. Was Mary I really ‘bloody’?
9. Did Elizabeth I finally fix the issue of religion?
10. Was Elizabethan England a ‘Golden Age’?
11. Did England become the most powerful country in the world under Queen Elizabeth?

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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