Personal Learning Checklist for the new 9-1 Spec AQA GCSE about the interwar unit. Useful for revision and self assessment

Range of activities about castles which our students did on a day off timetable. Could be done across a number of lessons though. Includes source analysis, treasure hunt, life inside a castle and grand designs activity

Grand Designs project about medieval castles. Students are given a budget and must build the best castle they can using that money! Good opportunity for students to be creative and also includes a numeracy element with the need to keep within budget. Students enjoy the project a lot!

Assessment and mark scheme for year 9 students about WW2. Includes source based questions. Questions in the style of new AQA GCSE 9- 1 spec

HW task comparing the 2 world wars. Includes levelled success criteria to aid marking

Range of HW Menus and projects which are levelled and differentiated. Used for Year 7 and provides a range of activities for students to complete.

Assessment about how far life changed during the Victorian period. Includes level descriptors and sentence starters for EAL/less able students

Assessment and mark scheme for year 9 students about WWI Home Front. Includes source based questions. Questions in the style of new AQA GCSE 9- 1 spec

Range of homework menus for year 8 students. Includes differentiated activities for students to complete about topics such as the Stuarts, the Industrial Revolution, Empire and Slavery, the Victorians and the Edwardian period.

Lesson which reviews this exam - to be done after exam has been sat as a mock. Allows students to recognise strengths and weaknesses in their answers

Research project which involves researching how a fictional family may have been impacted by WWI.

Assessment about Magna Carta/Peasants Revolt/Establishment of Parliament. Support for weaker students provided alongside levelled critera

KS3 Assessment considering most significant event in Industrial Society. Includes level descriptors and sentence starters for EAL/less able students

HW project which involves creating a series of newspaper articles from different times in the war to demonstrate understanding of impact of key events. Levelled criteria are included to aid marking

KS3 assessment considering when Britain was ‘great’. Includes level descriptors and sentence starters for less able/EAL students

SoW about life 1066 and life under the Normans, covering feudal system, castles and domesday book. Includes assessment points and HW, as well as differentiation and links to SMSC

Lesson which breaks down each question from 2016 exam paper. Used for revision with this year’s year 11 to go through exam tech and content

HW task to research modern genocides. Could be used to support citizenship or the teaching of the Holocaust. Includes levelled success critera

Assessment based upon perspectives on education. Based upon questions for new AQA A Level Sec

HW project to research the use of manor houses in WW2 for things such as medical centres, espionage etc. Includes levelled criteria