Stamford Bridge

A full lesson on the Battle of Stamford Bridge. Through the enquiry of ‘What happened at Stamford Bridge’? The aim of the lesson is for students to understand the events of the battle, who won and then make their own prediction about what will happen next. Students do this through an engaging video, guided reading and creating their own vivid account of what happened through a choice of differentiated tasks, including a storyboard, report or diary. There is an optional peer assessment task, followed by the plenary. This is a review of students’ progress using cue words such as who, what, where, when and why. Students are asked to link their learning today with a prediction of what will happen next.

This lesson is a KS3 lesson with clear objectives, a key enquiry question and differentiated resources, including challenge tasks and questions. All information sheets and resources are included on the slides for a download and go lesson. It downloads in a powerpoint format so can be adapted easily.

This lesson includes:

• A retrieval starter
• Engaging video to set the scene
• Guided reading task to get students to understand the events
• Differentiated tasks to consolidate knowledge of the events as a storyboard, report or diary
• optional peer assessment task
• A review based plenary using keywords and literacy prompts to measure progress.