This resource offers side-by-side lessons and student work booklet covering the Vikings, along with a revision lesson and end of unit assessment. The unit covers Viking culture, how Vikings are represented in the media and the accuracy of this, Lindisfarne, Viking rule change in Britian, how Alfred the Great dealt with the Vikings, and how accurate horrible histories portrayal of the Vikings is. This also has an end of unit assessment encompassing all the content that is covered within the lessons, testing both students knowledge, and skills. This resource covers key content surrounding the Vikings, but also allows students to practice key historical skills such as interpretation, inference, and judgement. The resource is suitable for a mixture of abilities, with the tasks tailored so that students can write as much, or as little as they wish or are capable of but whilst still making key judgements. The lessons encorporate a variety of approaches using information islands, live modelling, and video and audio.

A series of engaging lessons with a focus on literacy looking at Contenders to the English throne, key battles of the Norman Conquest of England, how control was established and maintained using Motte and Bailey Castles and the Feudal System, and attacking castles. There is an opportunity for assessment and extended writing where students can plan a balanced argument on which method of control they think was the most effective in the Normans establishing control.

Full 13 lesson scheme of work on World War One (WW1). Scheme covers alliances, assassination, propaganda, Women’s roles, trenches, Battle of the Somme, wartime advancements, and the Treaty of Versailles and it’s impact. The scheme of work is fully resourced with lessons and corresponding resources for students. The scheme use of a wide variety of approaches with activities suited for large group work, small groups, as well as more individual tasks. Within the scheme there is tasks to help promote literacy development through key word sheets and guided reading tasks, as well as promoting history skills like source analysis and interpretations. Throughout the scheme there is multiple tasks that can be used as milestone pieces of work/assessed work for marking/feedback to be given. There is also a written bank of questions ready to upload to Carousel Learning if the platform is used