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This new unit for 2024/25 gives greater opportunities for the children to explore sources and includes new teaching resources designed to enrich their learning and deepen their understanding of the topic. The Archived unit: British history 5: What was life like in Tudor England? will no longer be updated.
Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Extract information about Henry VIII from portraits and written records.
- Justify their interpretation of Henry VIII using evidence from sources.
- Use sources to make deductions about Henry VIII’s wives and use evidence to support deductions, evaluating his marriage requirements in the context of the Tudor period.
- Make deductions from a range of sources about marriage, power and punishment.
- Identify primary and secondary sources, and begin to explore their reliability.
- Select the relevant evidence required from sources and write an eyewitness account of Elizabeth I’s Worcester Progress.
- Make deductions using inventories about the wealth and position of an ordinary Tudor person.
- Explain how inventories are useful to historians.
- Use their knowledge of inventories, to create a realistic Tudor inventory.
Suggested prior learning
Y5/6 (A): British history 4: Were the Vikings raiders, traders or something else?
Get startedLessons
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 1: Henry VIII – fair ruler or tyrant?
- To interpret the character of Henry VIII using portraits and written sources.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 2: Why did Henry VIII have so many wives?
- To explore why Henry VIII had many wives using secondary sources.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 3: Why was Anne Boleyn executed?
- To make deductions about power and punishment using a range of sources.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 4: How did Queen Elizabeth I use a royal progress?
- To explore the use of propaganda by a Tudor monarch.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 5: What can inventories tell us about life in Tudor times?
- To make deductions about people in Tudor England using inventories.
Y5/6 (A): Lesson 6: What did John Blanke have in his inventory?
- To create an inventory for a person from the Tudor times.
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