KS3 Stuarts Assessment (made for SEN, differentiated by NC Levels)

This is an end of unit test on the Stuarts. It could be used as an assessment or as a research task - with students trying to find the answers, perhaps on PCs.

They’d done the Tudors before and then covered the Stuarts by looking at:

• Monarchs
• Catholicism and Protestantism
• Puritans
• The Witch Frenzy
• Source analysis
• The English Civil War
• Oliver Cromwell
• Plague
• Great Fire of London

The assessment is differentiated THREE times. The three sets of questions all include some source questions, some option questions, and some open/closed questions. The questions for each set demonstrate the skills needed for Level 3, 4 and 5 in the History NC.

If students are lower ability, I start them with the first sheet ‘Aiming for Level 3’ - if they complete this they can move onto ‘Aiming for Level 4’. If they are more able they can start with the Level 4 sheet and then do 5, or start with the Level 5. If they finish Level 5 (which has more thought provoking questions so does take longer, I let them go back to the Levels 3 and 4 sheets to recap. Sometimes it works to start all on Level 3 and see how far they can go (builds confidence when they can see they are literally progressing).

Please feel free to edit or move questions based on what you have covered, but there’s a fairly good mix in here.