This lesson is based on the Technology, War and Independence KS3 textbooks. The lesson includes a range of activities including analysing what evacuation was like and writing a letter from the perspective of an evacuee. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students. Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks. The lesson includes a range of activities involving source analysis. The PPT also contains modelling and success criteria to help guide the students as well as differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This planning template is really useful for introucing your GCSE students to the 16-mark ‘How far do you agree…?’ exam questions with Edexcel. This one has modelling for the Anglo-Saxon/Norman topic but it the template is the same structure as the 16 mark questions in many other topics and so can be easily adapted. Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson is based on Technology, War and Independence KS3 textbook. The lesson includes a range of activities to accompany the textbook in order to form a written judgement. The PPT also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder KS3 textbooks and aimed at Y7. It involves encouraging students to analyse advantages and disadvantages of different types of castles from the book and contains success criteria to help guide the students along with an engaging starter and a PEEL paragraph plenary.

This lesson is based on Pearson Weimar and Nazi Germany 9-1 GCSE textbook. The lesson includes a range of activities including annotating a diagram and creating a table. It is a simple lesson to accompany the textbook.

This lesson is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder KS3 textbooks. The PPT includes a range of activities including making source analysis and creating a warning poster. It also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). There is enough content here to last over two lessons. Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder KS3 textbooks. The lesson includes a range of activities including creating a medieval tournament report. It also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This PPT is based on the Renaissance, Revolution and Reformation KS3 textbooks. It contains enough content for 2-3 lessons. The lessons include a range of activities including developing their explanation skills, writing a letter and a group research/presentation task. The PPT also contains success criteria and modelling to help guide the students as well as differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included. The lesson encourages the students to investigate what prohibition was and why it failed. The lesson includes a range of activities including a link to a short video clip (not produced by myself) and categorising reasons. There is an engaging starter, clear success criteria and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This PPT is designed to be used as part of a walking-talking mock (it would be good to have an exam paper in front of the students when delivering it) for the Edexcel Weimar and Nazi Germany 9-1 paper. It gives tips on how to structure answer each exam-style question which appears on the paper and useful guidance on what to do/avoid. There is differentiation on the structure of the final question. This PPT is useful to share with students when first informing them about the structure of this exam or during revision periods in preparation for the exam. Please ask if you have any questions :) Good luck with the exams!

This PPT contains two lessons: one preparing the pupils to write a newspaper article through source analysis and finding out who they believe was to blame for Becket's death, the other enabling them to write the article. This download comes with resources needed included Becket sources (plus a SEN differentiated version), a starter activity, guidance on how to test the reliability of sources for the more able, a newspaper article template and a template with a writing frame for the students who need more scaffolding.

This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included (some are from the Holocaust Educational Trust). The lesson encourages the students to investigate the the beginning of persecution against the Jews. The lesson includes a range of activities including comparing and contrasting laws against the Jews as well as analysing testimonies from survivors. Differentiation by colour is used (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson uses the Pearson Anglo-Saxon and Norman 9-1 textbooks. It contains a variety of activities with challenges and success criteria to help guide the students. There are tips for how to use the lesson in the notes. Any obituary found on Google can be used as a model. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

This lesson is aimed at Y7 students but could be adapted. It is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder Oxford textbooks and contains a range of activities including source analysis. This lesson, thought, could be done without the textbooks. It also has success criteria and modelling to help guide the students and there are challenges available for differentiation (red=easiest, green=hardest) This lesson comes with differentiated sources and a table for the students to complete. Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

This lesson is aimed at Y7 students but could be adapted. It is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder Oxford textbooks and contains a range of activities including creating a poster for the pope. It also has success criteria to help guide the students and there are challenges available for differentiation (red=easiest, green=hardest) Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

This lesson uses the Pearson Anglo-Saxon/Norman textbooks. It contains success criteria for making a guide on the Norman aristocracy along with challenges and a link to a useful clip (this video was not made by me). Please feel free to ask if you have any questions :)

This lessons provides background context on Hippocrates and Galen. Although ancient medicine is not a major feature of the new 9-1 course, it does teach the students about the Four Humours theory and allows them to notice continuity and change between time periods. It also indludes an idea for a homework. This could be used as a GCSE taster lesson. Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson is based on the Invasion, Plague and Murder KS3 textbooks. The lessons includes a range of activities including making a bar chart, writing a PEEL paragraph and hot-seating. It also contains success criteria to help guide the students and differentiation (red=least challenging up to green=most challenging). Please feel free to ask any questions :)

This lesson does NOT require the use of any accompanying textbooks. All of the resources needed are included. The lesson encourages the students to investigate the death of Harold Godwinson and is aimed at developing their source analysis skills. It is particularly useful for introducing/developing the idea of reliability. The lesson includes a range of activities including a link to a short video clip (not produced by myself) and working with sources. There is an engaging starter, clear modelling and a hinge question. I have also included two sets of sources (one differentiated) and a table to go with the lesson. A sheet to guide the students on NOP is attached which may also be used for other lessons. Please feel free to ask any questions :)