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Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount.
Perfect for History Club sessions – or active and creative lessons - at primary or secondary level. Includes information and video about the topics and a fun practical activity (which can often take more than one session to complete). All sessions include a weekly advertising poster for display boards, websites and screens around the school. Also included is a loyalty card for students to claim rewards after attending enough lessons.
Designed by Wolsey Academy and tried and tested with secondary students in the UK.
Topics are as follows:
Ancient Egypt – Drama Production
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 – Arts and Craft.
Guy Fawkes, 1605 – Gunpowder Hunt.
Charles Lindbergh, 1927 – Design & Fly a Plane.
Pirates – Make a Movie.
Thanksgiving – Fancy Dress and Card Design
Benjamin Franklin – Make and fly a Kite.
Tudor Christmas – Card Making.
Battle of Atlantic – Code Breaking Game
Medieval Coat of Arms – Research and Heraldry Making.
Brunel – Bridge Building
Darwin –Voyage of the Beagle, Art Competition.
D-Day – Landing Craft Construction and Testing
World Cup History – Kit Designs
Battle of Quebec – Crane Construction
Angkor Wat – Sunrise Drawings
Historical Fashion – Clothing Designs
Henry Ford – Assembly Line Competition
Roman Army – Shield Design and Battle Tactics Role Play
Local History: Ipswich Town Football Club – Badge Design.
Perfect for History Club sessions – or active and creative lessons - at primary or secondary level. Includes information and video about the topics and a fun practical activity (which can often take more than one session to complete). All sessions include a weekly advertising poster for display boards, websites and screens around the school. Also included is a loyalty card for students to claim rewards after attending enough lessons.
Designed by Wolsey Academy and tried and tested with secondary students in the UK.
Topics are as follows:
Ancient Egypt – Drama Production
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 – Arts and Craft.
Guy Fawkes, 1605 – Gunpowder Hunt.
Charles Lindbergh, 1927 – Design & Fly a Plane.
Pirates – Make a Movie.
Thanksgiving – Fancy Dress and Card Design
Benjamin Franklin – Make and fly a Kite.
Tudor Christmas – Card Making.
Battle of Atlantic – Code Breaking Game
Medieval Coat of Arms – Research and Heraldry Making.
Brunel – Bridge Building
Darwin –Voyage of the Beagle, Art Competition.
D-Day – Landing Craft Construction and Testing
World Cup History – Kit Designs
Battle of Quebec – Crane Construction
Angkor Wat – Sunrise Drawings
Historical Fashion – Clothing Designs
Henry Ford – Assembly Line Competition
Roman Army – Shield Design and Battle Tactics Role Play
Local History: Ipswich Town Football Club – Badge Design.
Perfect for History Club sessions – or active and creative lessons - at primary or secondary level. Includes information and video about the topics and a fun practical activity (which can often take more than one session to complete). All sessions include a weekly advertising poster for display boards, websites and screens around the school. Also included is a loyalty card for students to claim rewards after attending enough lessons.
Designed by Wolsey Academy and tried and tested with secondary students in the UK.
Topics are as follows:
Ancient Egypt – Drama Production
Battle of Trafalgar 1805 – Arts and Craft.
Guy Fawkes, 1605 – Gunpowder Hunt.
Charles Lindbergh, 1927 – Design & Fly a Plane.
Pirates – Make a Movie.
Thanksgiving – Fancy Dress and Card Design
Benjamin Franklin – Make and fly a Kite.
Tudor Christmas – Card Making.
Battle of Atlantic – Code Breaking Game
Medieval Coat of Arms – Research and Heraldry Making.
Brunel – Bridge Building
Darwin –Voyage of the Beagle, Art Competition.
D-Day – Landing Craft Construction and Testing
World Cup History – Kit Designs
Battle of Quebec – Crane Construction
Angkor Wat – Sunrise Drawings
Historical Fashion – Clothing Designs
Henry Ford – Assembly Line Competition
Roman Army – Shield Design and Battle Tactics Role Play
Local History: Ipswich Town Football Club – Badge Design.
English Writing Skills – KS3/EAL - Gothic SOW
20 lessons with a revision guide and an online end of unit test.
SOW made initially for secondary school students in the UK. However, this SOW especially has had huge success in boosting grades in international schools because of its accommodation of various learning styles, engaging content, deep levels of differentiation and development of core skills.
Lessons are as follows:
Gothic Stories – to be apply to apply a range of adjectives.
Sentence Structures - To investigate a variety of sentence structures and their effect on the reader
Imaginative Sentences – To edit sentences and make them imaginative.
Using the senses - To create an effect using senses in my writing.
Using sound effects - To be able to identify and explain tension.
Character descriptions - To explain the effect of the language chosen by the author
Pathetic Fallacy - To apply pathetic fallacy
Addams Family Punctuation - To create a character through punctuation
Varied Sentences – To apply a variety of sentence styles.
Introduction to poetry techniques - To analyse poetic techniques used
Persuasive Techniques – Speaking and listening skills
Persuasive techniques – speaking and listening presentation
Genre conventions – To create your own gothic character
Similes and Metaphors - To manipulate adventurous vocabulary, similes and metaphors to describe a haunted house.
Understanding criteria - To understand the assessment criteria
Planning extended writing - To plan a gothic story
Extended Writing Assessment - To create a gothic story
Poetry techniques – To analyse the language of a poem.
Gothic poetry – To apply poetic techniques to your own poem.
Gothic Filmn Review
Gothic homework task grids (this homework works for the entire SOW and pupils complete at their own pace).
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.
English Writing Skills – KS3/EAL - Gothic SOW
20 lessons with a revision guide and an online end of unit test.
SOW made initially for secondary school students in the UK. However, this SOW especially has had huge success in boosting grades in international schools because of its accommodation of various learning styles, engaging content, deep levels of differentiation and development of core skills.
Lessons are as follows:
Gothic Stories – to be apply to apply a range of adjectives.
Sentence Structures - To investigate a variety of sentence structures and their effect on the reader
Imaginative Sentences – To edit sentences and make them imaginative.
Using the senses - To create an effect using senses in my writing.
Using sound effects - To be able to identify and explain tension.
Character descriptions - To explain the effect of the language chosen by the author
Pathetic Fallacy - To apply pathetic fallacy
Addams Family Punctuation - To create a character through punctuation
Varied Sentences – To apply a variety of sentence styles.
Introduction to poetry techniques - To analyse poetic techniques used
Persuasive Techniques – Speaking and listening skills
Persuasive techniques – speaking and listening presentation
Genre conventions – To create your own gothic character
Similes and Metaphors - To manipulate adventurous vocabulary, similes and metaphors to describe a haunted house.
Understanding criteria - To understand the assessment criteria
Planning extended writing - To plan a gothic story
Extended Writing Assessment - To create a gothic story
Poetry techniques – To analyse the language of a poem.
Gothic poetry – To apply poetic techniques to your own poem.
Gothic Filmn Review
Gothic homework task grids (this homework works for the entire SOW and pupils complete at their own pace).
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.
English Writing Skills – KS3/EAL - Gothic SOW
20 lessons with a revision guide and an online end of unit test.
SOW made initially for secondary school students in the UK. However, this SOW especially has had huge success in boosting grades in international schools because of its accommodation of various learning styles, engaging content, deep levels of differentiation and development of core skills.
Lessons are as follows:
Gothic Stories – to be apply to apply a range of adjectives.
Sentence Structures - To investigate a variety of sentence structures and their effect on the reader
Imaginative Sentences – To edit sentences and make them imaginative.
Using the senses - To create an effect using senses in my writing.
Using sound effects - To be able to identify and explain tension.
Character descriptions - To explain the effect of the language chosen by the author
Pathetic Fallacy - To apply pathetic fallacy
Addams Family Punctuation - To create a character through punctuation
Varied Sentences – To apply a variety of sentence styles.
Introduction to poetry techniques - To analyse poetic techniques used
Persuasive Techniques – Speaking and listening skills
Persuasive techniques – speaking and listening presentation
Genre conventions – To create your own gothic character
Similes and Metaphors - To manipulate adventurous vocabulary, similes and metaphors to describe a haunted house.
Understanding criteria - To understand the assessment criteria
Planning extended writing - To plan a gothic story
Extended Writing Assessment - To create a gothic story
Poetry techniques – To analyse the language of a poem.
Gothic poetry – To apply poetic techniques to your own poem.
Gothic Filmn Review
Gothic homework task grids (this homework works for the entire SOW and pupils complete at their own pace).
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.
English Writing Skills – KS3/EAL - Gothic SOW
20 lessons with a revision guide and an online end of unit test.
SOW made initially for secondary school students in the UK. However, this SOW especially has had huge success in boosting grades in international schools because of its accommodation of various learning styles, engaging content, deep levels of differentiation and development of core skills.
Lessons are as follows:
Gothic Stories – to be apply to apply a range of adjectives.
Sentence Structures - To investigate a variety of sentence structures and their effect on the reader
Imaginative Sentences – To edit sentences and make them imaginative.
Using the senses - To create an effect using senses in my writing.
Using sound effects - To be able to identify and explain tension.
Character descriptions - To explain the effect of the language chosen by the author
Pathetic Fallacy - To apply pathetic fallacy
Addams Family Punctuation - To create a character through punctuation
Varied Sentences – To apply a variety of sentence styles.
Introduction to poetry techniques - To analyse poetic techniques used
Persuasive Techniques – Speaking and listening skills
Persuasive techniques – speaking and listening presentation
Genre conventions – To create your own gothic character
Similes and Metaphors - To manipulate adventurous vocabulary, similes and metaphors to describe a haunted house.
Understanding criteria - To understand the assessment criteria
Planning extended writing - To plan a gothic story
Extended Writing Assessment - To create a gothic story
Poetry techniques – To analyse the language of a poem.
Gothic poetry – To apply poetic techniques to your own poem.
Gothic Filmn Review
Gothic homework task grids (this homework works for the entire SOW and pupils complete at their own pace).
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.
Supports up to 4 teams or houses (can do more with a bit of modification).
Breaks events down into Boys & Girls - provides results in a bar chart ‘live’ as the events unfold and generates an overall ‘house’ score.
Set up to support 12 different activities (can do more with some modification).
Really worked well with our sports day and the students loved seeing the scores come in on the big screen as the day unfolded.
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.
Lesson to celebrate of Chatham’s Afro-Caribbean Chartist Leader - William Cuffay.
Great way to add diversity to your study of the British Industrial Revolution - also a crucial element of the study of political change and the Chartists in Britain.
Card puzzle activity.
Storyboard activity.
Plenary tasks.
Stretch activities throughout including a worksheet with activities for higher and lower abilities. Example lesson plan included to help explain the lesson and as a template for your own plans.
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.
First of two well presented and active lessons introducing the Romans (buy the bundle, it works out 2 for 1).
Numeracy/Liteacy/Historical thinking settler (I use these as a standard settler - works a treat once they’re in a routine).
Context slide (I like to have a tiny bit of teacher talk - just to set the scene and link today;s learning to what they’ve already done)
Visual map activity - what do we already know? Think/Pair/Share
Writing comprehension task
Cartoon creation and story sort.
Group discussions of the advantages of Rome’s position + class feedback.
Paragraph writing task
Literacy support mat including in resources.
Map of Empire included in resources.
Hope it helps!
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
A lesson designed for EAL learners in the Middle East but can be adopted for any class with learning support needs. Includes stretch tasks to keep students engaged. Uses a simplified criteria/marking rubric to guide students towards good progress. Writing frames and peer assessments for final tasks.
Looks at four different factors: Latitude, altitude, wind patterns and distance from the sea. Students also study relief rainfall and ocean currents.
A lesson designed for EAL learners in the Middle East but can be adopted for any class with learning support needs. Includes stretch tasks to keep students engaged. Uses a simplified criteria/marking rubric to guide students towards good progress. Writing frames and peer assessments for final tasks.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
First slide designed as an ‘all in one’ lesson sheet to let students of varying ability work at their own pace. Ideal for classes with challenging/varied support needs.
Includes several simple/EAL activities, e.g. cloze, match up and diagram labels all one sheet. Glossary words and connectives supports for differentiation. Homework activity, stretch activity and reward activity all included on second and third slides.
Part 4 of a mini SOW on Poetry. Student write their own poems using the techniques they have studied in the first three lessons.
Levelled settler questioning
Students work through online quest/story.
Differentiated question tasks on the story.
Levelled poem writing preparation task.
Head stone writing plenary.
This lesson also forms part of the Mini Poetry SOW:
Who’s the game? - Analysis
Fall in - Analysis
Presents from my aunt - Analysis
A witch in a bottle - Writing Poetry
Gothic Poetry - Writing Poetry
Gothic Poetry Techniques - Writing Poetry
Part 3 of a mini SOW on Poetry. Students read and analyse the poem ‘Presents from my Aunt’.
Settler – discussion on the nature of presents & poetic technique recap.
Glossary task and poem read.
Imagery/Drawing exercise with extension tasks.
Descriptive techniques analysis grid.
Paragraph writing task with writing frames.
Plenary cube activity (Plenary cubes ready to print in the resources section of the ppt).
This lesson also forms part of the Mini Poetry SOW:
Who’s the game? - Analysis
Fall in - Analysis
Presents from my aunt - Analysis
A witch in a bottle - Writing Poetry
Gothic Poetry - Writing Poetry
Gothic Poetry Techniques - Writing Poetry