Two or three lessons focused around revising all key content for Hitler's Germany. Pupil hand out has the key question styles for pupils to apply knowledge and learning to. These can also be used as assessments in class or for homework.

A review starter/plenary for AQA 8145 Health and the People - focused on the 19th century. 10 recap questions to be completed in pairs/individually. Answers included. Useful for interleaving and reviewing knowledge.

Resource focusing on reviewing the key content for AQA 8145 Elizabethan England - anagrams must first be unscrambled and then a definition or explanation given for the word/individual next to this. Answers also included as a comment.

A review starter/plenary for AQA 8145 Health and the People - focused on linking key concepts/images to review knowledge.

A review starter/plenary for AQA 8145 Health and the People - focused on the key themes of surgery, causes and cures and public health. Students match up three words and must write a definition explaining the links. Challenge questions built in.

A review starter/plenary for AQA 8145 Health and the People - focused on the modern period (20th and 21st century) . 10 recap questions to be completed in pairs/individually. Answers included. Useful for interleaving and reviewing knowledge.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. The fourth lesson focuses on the key reasons for the failure of the Armada. The lesson starts with pupils analysing Phillip II’s plan and assessing advantages and disadvantages for Spain. Pupils then categorise the cards into reasons for failure; focusing on weather, English tactics, leadership, luck, Spanish mistakes and English ship design/weapons. Using the cards and additional information (plus relevant textbooks if required), in small groups pupils create a mini poster explaining one of the above reasons for defeat - presenting back after 15 minutes whilst all students complete a table recording the key details, allowing students to assess which reason for defeat they feel is most significant. The plenary focuses on the ‘how convincing’ question, using the Armada portrait as the source material.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. *Note - the AQA source booklet is required with this lesson - this can be found on eaqa.org.uk The fifth and sixth lessons focus on analysing the AQA source material to bring together all knowledge of the Armada. Pupils start by recapping key learning through a video, making notes. Each pair or trio is then allocated a source and given 7 minutes to analyse it focusing on; what it tells them about the Armada and what knowledge links to the source. Pupils then present back to the group. Pupils then use the annotated sources to complete the knolwedge audit sheet (can be done as homework), bringing it together by identifying what the Armada study can tell us about Elizabethan England. Pupils then complete a taboo plenary to recap key terminology.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. The seventh lesson focuses on applying knowledge to a sample 16 mark essay question (based on the specimen paper Stamford Bridge question, as advised by AQA) : “Luck was the main reason for the outcome of sea battles like the Spanish Armada in this period”. How far does a study of the Spanish Armada support this statement? You should refer to the Spanish Armada and your contextual knowledge. (16 marks) The lesson starts with pupils recapping all they can remember about the Armada. Pupils then use a variety of sources to explore the significance of the Armada both today and in the Elizabethan period. Pupils use the mark scheme to list ‘top tips’ for answering this 16 mark essay question, building on this by completing a PEE planning sheet, using the learning from previous lessons. Using their PEE sheet pupils complete the essay plan for the above question (can be done in class or at home), allowing them to practice answering it in timed conditions in the following lesson. The plenary is a model paragraph that can be printed out from the PPT and annotated in pairs focusing on the strengths.

Model answer for the 2020 AQA historic environment topic - the Spanish Armada. The answer is based on the following question - “Luck was the main reason for the outcome of sea battles like the Spanish Armada in this period”. How far does a study of the Spanish Armada support this statement? You should refer to the Spanish Armada and your contextual knowledge. (16 marks) This question is based on the specimen Stamford Bridge question, as advised by AQA. This answer can be used for revision, modelling, annotation or formal assessment.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. The first lesson focuses on why England and Spain went to war. The lesson starts with a discussion around sources, using existing knowledge to draw out inferences, linking in knowledge of the wider Elizabethan period. The main activity is an information hunt, exploring the reasons for the causes of the conflict, leading to thematic coding of the causes into political, religious, economic and personal reasons. This culminates in a corners plenary, requiring all students to reach a judgement on the ‘most significant’ theme.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. The second lesson focuses on the comparison of the military power of both nations and how ‘prepared’ both sides were for the Armada. The lesson starts with a recap of the causes of the Armada from the previous lesson, allowing judgements to be made on significance. Students then use a video to make notes on naval advances in the 16th century, leading to an exploration of these advances on a worksheet (photocopy on A3) to allow students to assess how the English may have had an advantage over the Spanish. Pupils then explore the contrasting leaders on both sides, creating a table showing advantages and disadvantages for each based on this. This culminates in a post-it note plenary reaching a judgement as to who they think had the advantage before the Armada started.

Lessons focused around the 2020 Historic Environment on the Spanish Armada. The third lesson focuses on the chronology of the Armada, with specific focus on the ‘turning points’ of the battle. The lesson starts with a comparison of two accounts of the Armada, linking to the ‘how convincing’ question stem in this unit. In pairs pupils then annotate a variety of sources to understand the key events of the Armada. Pupils then use an overview worksheet to identify when and why the Armada was defeated, using this information to create a ‘symbol poster’/flash cards on the key turning points. Pupils use this information to answer: At which point do you think the Armada was defeated? Finally, pupils recap their learning in a 3,2,1 plenary.

Lesson introducing the unit on John Major. The lesson starts with a source from Major - pupils explore the content and validity of the source. Using the Oxford textbook pupils list the reasons for Thatcher’s resignation (on the PowerPoint also) and rank in terms of significance. A video explores her resignation, encouraging students to think about the position of the Conservative Party by 1990. Using the Oxford textbook students annotate characteristics of John Major exploring why he would be an ideal choice for the Conservatives. The plenary is a video of Major discussing Thatcher’s legacy leading to students explaining why he was the ideal candidate to lead the Conservative Party in 1990.

Lesson exploring the different pressure groups and opposition shown to Thatcher 1979-87 The lesson begins with analysis of a source focusing on content, tone and provenance to introduce social opposition. Students then complete the table using the Oxford AQA approved textbook (pp 131-133) analysing the various opposition groups and the impact they had. This then leads to a written judgement and corners plenary assessing which group posed the largest ‘threat’ to Thatcher.

Homework booklet to cut down teaching time for the AQA 8145 Elizabethan unit. The booklet focuses on society, theatre and the Spanish Armada with thinking tasks designed to encourage understanding.

Model answer for the 2019 historic environment question for AQA 8145 Elizabethan England on the Globe. The answer explains several factors, focusing on how the Globe shows changes in society using features of the site and wider evidence. Useful for revision, essay planning and in-class assessment.

AQA 8145 - Analysis of the Elizabethan theatre with focus on exploring features of The Globe, carousel on key playwrights like Marlowe, Shakespeare and Burbage, analysis of the impatc theatre had on Elizabethan England. Summary interpretation question and mark scheme included.

Lesson one in the Globe historic environment series. This lesson explores what the theatre was like in Elizabethan England. A picture starter encourages discussion on the theatre, following on a video introduces the theatre whilst pupils annotate the labelled diagram using the information from the video. Pupils then apply the information to a describe question on the features of the theatre in Elizabethan society. Pupils then read and highlight the hand out and complete the table analysing the three key figures (Shakespeare, Burbage and Marlowe) and the impact they had then and now, finally pupils reduce the theatre in Elizabethan England to no more than 30 words.