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This series of 6 lessons cover all the database skills required to use MS Access competently and develops students theoretical knowledge of key database terms and concepts. Ideally suited for any educational curriculum but specially modelled around the EDEXCEL IGCSE ICT ).
Each lesson builds towards a Ferrari World theme park (UAE) case study and contains:
• A literacy, numeracy, think settler activity.
• Flash cards for all key words
• Explainer slides
• A range of activities.
• Videos (in both MP4 & YouTube links)
• Access to a google quiz for effective student progress checks and retrieval practice (2 quizzes in total – basic and an advanced quiz)
Lesson topics:
• Data Types and Data Entry (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Key Relationships and Key Types (incl. 1 teacher tutorial video)
• Validation & Sorting (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Queries & Operators (incl. 4 teacher tutorial videos)
• Reports & Mail Merge (incl. 2 teacher tutorial videos)
• Revision (37 flashcards and a range of revision activities)
Purchasing the whole scheme of work provides you with a passcode for a dedicated webpage with links to everything.
These lessons have been used with English as Additional Language students to great effect within an International School setting.
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ICT > IGCSE > Edexcel > Unit 3 > Operating Online > Securing Data
Unit 3, Edexcel, IGCSE ICT.
26 Lessons in total – including three progress check & quiz lessons.
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the end of unit test lesson features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. All include keyword literacy worksheets.
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT IGCSE.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Hope it helps.
A set of 17 flash cards for History lessons/revision of 1066
Each card is printable and foldable, also includes a ‘dual coding’ activity and then for the word to be used in a sentence to prove understanding. Also ideal to be used for round robin/quiz-quiz-trade style activities in class.
Words included:
Edward the Confessor
Harald Hardrada
Harold Godwinson
William, Duke of Normandy
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Battle of Hastings
Dover
Siege
Feudal System
Domesday Book
Harrying of the North
Motte and Bailey Castle
Housecarls
Fyrd
Shield Wall
Cavalry
Archers
If you are studying 1066 get your students playing the free Battle of Hastings RPG game at Wolsey Academy – includes a free work book that they complete as they walk around Medieval England and talk to the characters to reveal the answers. My students love it.
Hope it helps.
The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel
One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum.
It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR.
Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Very simply taken from the ADEK UAE Moral Studies guide for Year 8 (Grade 7). Converted into something more user friendly for both teachers and students.
Includes LOs that are revisited and differentiated resources for EAL classes.
Can very easily be used outside the UAE for Moral and Social studies/PSHE/Tutor periods.
7 Lessons on the Weimar Republic, from its troublesome beginnings to stability and success under Stresemann. It takes you from the origins of the Weimar Republic all the way through to the end of the Second World War.
Each lesson has a range of activities and is fully resourced, with all printable resources at the end of each PowerPoint for your convenience. These lessons have been used with great success at Wolsey Academy and students seem to really enjoy them while developing strong skills and retaining the knowledge required to succeed in their final exams.
We hope they help.
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From a series of 5 lessons taking KS3 through Central Asian History, highlighting many topics not covered by the traditional curriculum but which nonetheless are highly important to a developed and balanced appreciation of world history.
The five lessons are:
The Mongols
The Silk Roads
The Timurid Empire
The Ottomans
The Mughals
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
ICT > iGCSE > Edexcel > Unit 2 > Connectivity > Digital Communication
Catering for Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 2: Connectivity.
11 Lessons in total. Alllessons are free to download except the revision lessons which come with printable guides and links to online exams (lessons 6 & 11)
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the revision guide features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. The SOW has an online mid and end of unit test that can be found at Wolsey Academy
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT iGCSE.
Enhance your upper high school curriculum with our detailed teaching resource tailored for students investigating Castro’s rise to power and the Cuban Missile Crisis. This resource provides a thorough overview of Batista’s dictatorship, the inception of Castro’s M26 movement, his period in exile, and his eventual return to power. It also delves into Kennedy’s strategic responses and Castro’s alliances with the USSR, giving students a full spectrum of understanding.
Designed to engage and assess, the resource includes a series of Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) to help quickly evaluate student comprehension. This makes for an excellent, straightforward homework assignment or an in-class activity.
Additionally, enrich your students’ learning with a featured extract from Max Hastings’ “Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis”, bringing an expert’s perspective into the classroom. This teaching resource is ideal for educators looking to provide a concise yet comprehensive look at a crucial period in modern history.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
11 x Past Papers
5 x Paper 1s, Sources and Mark Schemes (Rights and Protest)
3 x Paper 3s HL and Mark Schemes (Superpower Rivarly)
3 x Paper 3s HL and Mark Schemes (The Americas)
The Great Depression, Politics in Latin America & The Cold War in the Americas
Broken down into bitesize slides and mark schemes.
Our students have found this approach to be much more manageable than the somewhat overwhelming IB past papers.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This download includes the Year 9 Challenge only.
This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science).
All are available at Wolsey Academy.
Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract.
The extracts are as follows:
Year 7:
Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article)
Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest
Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article)
Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons
Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article)
Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel
Year 8:
Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn
Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article)
Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday
Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy
Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions
Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis,
Year 9:
Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland
Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators
Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron
Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan
Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition
Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought.
KS4:
Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich
Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War
Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich
Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam
Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin.
Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs
If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities.
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A lesson for year 7 (or any year group) to introduce the topic of UAE Social Studies and recap on the some basics of the UAE .
It includes questions and prompts throughout, a time line card sort activity and it ends with a student led project on each Emirate - including a grading criteria.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
This lesson’s content includes:
Where is the UAE?
What are the names of the 7 Emirates
The Sheikhs of the UAE
The basic Government structure
The basic timeline of the UAE
Create a project on each Emirate
Present your project and meet a criteria
We hope it helps :)
The History of India
This is one lesson from a series of 11 on the History of India.
Each lesson includes as a minimum:
• A context slide for teacher talk/intro
• A reading comprehension task
• A sorting/categorising activity of factors/causes.
• A writing task with support and guidance.
All resources are included within the same PowerPoint for ease of organisation. They have proved very effective with our High School classes.
The 11 lessons are as follows:
The Mughals (free)
The East India Company
The Battle of Plessey (free)
The Tiger of Mysore
The Mahratta
Revision & Feedback lesson for unit at half way point
Trucial States, UAE & Oman
The First War of Indian Independence (1857)
Amritsar Massacre & Indian Independence Movement
India, Gandhi and the Second World War
Bengal Famine 1947 (free)
Indian Independence and Partition
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
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Designed purely with EAL students in mind. Each lesson features a fun and active way of learning 4-6 keywords/script with a progress check at the end. Lessons then include an example, usually with a screen grab video to aid teaching, followed by an exercise on w3schools.com. Plenary checks their progress against the LOs.
Simple. Effective. Free.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Catering for Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 1.
Lesson 1 of 16 (lessons 1 & 2 and the revision guide are free to download)
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 3-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the revision guide features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technically vocabulary involved with the ICT iGCSE.
Quick and easy comprehension task for Christopher Columbus and a look at his legacy. Used with year 8 students as a homework task.
Includes 5 questions (answers on second page) and an extension task.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
Lesson 3: Roman Roads
THIS RESOURCE INCLUDES:
• Lesson teacher tutorial video for this lesson (for homework/home school learning)
• Literacy & Numeracy settler
• Contextual information and maps (to assist teacher talk)
• Documentary clips activity with extension task
• Guided reading task
• Roman road diagram and labelling activity
• Paragraph writing skills activity.
• Knowledge check plenary
• All resources required included at the end of the PowerPoint file.
• Online self marking quiz to assess understanding
OTHER LESSONS IN THE SERIES:
Lesson 1: Roman Intro
Lesson 2: The Founding of Rome, Romulus and Remus
Lesson 4: The Roman Army
Lesson 5: Punic Wars
Lesson 6: Pompeii & Roman Life
Lesson 7: Roman Government (The Republic)
Lesson 8: Medicine and Public Health
An 8 lesson series guiding Key Stage 3 through some of the fundamentals of the Roman Empire. Tried and tested over a number of years. See details of each lesson below the initial list.
Each lesson focusses on the Video – Resource – Quiz structure to allow for maximum support for teachers and parents – and maximum independence for students.
WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel
One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum.
It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR.
Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills.
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
IGCSE Business Studies – Operations Management
Lesson taken from the unit 4 series of lessons
Each lesson contains:
• A wide range of activities
• Content Slides
• Business Case Studies
• All Resources Required
• Online quizzes
• Flash Cards.
We hope it helps.
Operations Management lessons include:
Productivity
Inventory
Methods of Production
Technology and Production
Business Costs
Economies of Scale
Break Even Point
Quality Production
Location Decisions
Revision Lesson
You can access and download all the lessons for IGCSE Business Studies at Wolsey Academy (Google us).
Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.
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Catering for Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 2: Connectivity.
This lesson contains a research task on Alan Turing and Enigma.
11 Lessons in total. Alllessons are free to download except the revision lessons which come with printable guides and links to online exams (lessons 6 & 11)
These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 1-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the revision guide features them all in one place).
Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. The SOW has an online mid and end of unit test that can be found at Wolsey Academy (Google us)
Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technical vocabulary involved with the ICT iGCSE.