9-1 Edexcel History Learning/Topic Placemats for Anglo-Saxon and Norman England Topic 1: Anglo-Saxon society and the Norman Conquest, 1060-66 Topic 2: William I in power: Securing the kingdom Topic 3: Norman England, 1066-88 Written in PowerPoint (The reverse side of the placemat remains the same throughout this study unit). These interactive learning placemats were designed to meet the challenges of the new 9-1 GCSE. They build upon the successful Medicine Through Time Placemats that I previously designed (and which received 5* reviews by all who have purchased them up to the time of launching these new materials – see: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/9-1-edexcel-gcse-history-of-medicine-place-mat-question-structure-11627611 ). The new placemats have been identified as best practice during a ‘Challenge Partners’ review as well as being identified as best practice by other History teachers on the Olevi ‘Outstanding Teacher Programme’. The new design learning placemats support both teachers and students in addressing the: a) dramatic increase in the curriculum content needed for the different units b) support the need for increased literacy demands c) help students become familiar and more confident in recognising the correct response needed for the unprecedented number of different question styles The placemats are designed to be double sided. One side focuses on the CONTENT: providing an overview of key knowledge and understanding needed (this will change for each topic area within this GCSE unit). Every placemat across the GCSE range is designed to encourage greater understanding of: 1. Historical Context - through timelines, picture prompts and key words 2. Awareness of the ‘big picture’ so students can see how individual lessons fit into the unit and make clearer links between prior and future learning – through ‘Big Picture’ questions. 3. Better Literacy – through selected ‘language for learning’ vocab box. 4. Memory prompts to support revision – through the use of carefully selected images. 5. Increased awareness of metacognition – through PME (Progress, Monitor and Evaluation Time) questions to encourage students to deconstruct their learning and identify key factors (eg. Social, economic, political) or key individuals and make links between features. A pictorial metacognition man with 5 question prompts will support student reflection. The reverse side contains guidance on EXAM TECHNIQUE through: 1. Identifying the nature of the question styles for each GCSE Unit and the allocated marks available 2. Examiners levelled mark schemes 3. Support writing frames with generic sentence starters

Supporting worksheets for the CNN BBC production narrated by Kenneth Brannagh. Ep.16 Detente Ep.22 Star Wars Ep.23 The Wall Comes Down Written to support the teaching of the 9-1 GCSE curriculum as extension/enrichment/flipped learning, but also suitable for A Level teaching

Supporting worksheets for the CNN BBC production narrated by Kenneth Brannagh. Ep.2 - Iron Curtain Ep.4 - Berlin Ep.7 - After Stalin Written to support the teaching of the 9-1 GCSE curriculum as extension/enrichment/flipped learning, but also suitable for A Level teaching

Lucy Worsely - Six Wives - Supporting Worksheets for the BBC documentary: Ep1 - Divorced Ep2 - Beheaded, Died Ep3 - Divorced, Beheaded, Survived The worksheets are written in Publisher and formatted to A3 priniting. They can however, be edited, saved as PDF’s and printed in A4

Worksheets to support all three episodes from the first series: Ep1 - The American Revolution Ep2 - The Civil War Ep3 - Supremacy

Worksheets to support the Lucy Worsley episodes: The War of the Roses The Jewel in the Crown The Glorious Revolution

BBC - Twentieth Century Battlefields - Peter and Dan Snow Historian Peter Snow tells the story of the most important battles of the 20th Century. Armed with his mapcase which presents digital illustrations of his presentations, Snow tells the big picture of these clashes and their impact. Meanwhile, his son, Dan, goes into the field to explore the details of these battles and the part they played in the grand context of history

Worksheets to support the Documentary series: Programme 1 ‘Feud Glorious Feud’ - takes a journey back to the Dark Ages, before laws were written down and trials involved harsh physical ordeals with boiling water and red hot pokers. But by the end of this period, the Saxons had created the very first sophisticated legal systems of courts and juries some 200 years before they were formally introduced. Programme 2 ‘Guilty as Charred’ - studies the period up to and after the Norman invasion was perhaps the most turbulent in the history of law. But in the 150 years from 1066, the legal system was transformed. This period saw the signing of Magna Carta and the establishment of the three major planks of a modern legal system: independent judges, trial by jury, and English common law. Programme 3 ‘New King on the Block’ - looks at he battle over freedom of speech and how the monarch finally lost its power, and its head. As crucial as Magna Carta, the introduction of the Bill of Rights in 1688 saw Parliament and politicians now assume complete domination over the monarchy for good. Programme 4 ‘Have I got Noose for You’ - examines the huge escalation in the amount of law-making with the rise of industrialised society in the eighteenth century. And with thinkers such as Voltaire, Locke and especially Jeremy Bentham, the modern ideas of prison, reform and rehabilitation for offenders begin to emerge. All worksheets are written in Publisher and formatted to A3. The resources can be saved as PDF files for A4 printing