Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest

These are a series of lessons that teach students about the succession crisis of after Edward the Confessor’s death and the Battles between the three claimants to the throne. The scheme of work then teaches students about William’s problems in 1066 after the Battle of Hastings and how he then consolidated his power. The unit finishes with an assessment where students need to write an essay explaining ‘How William solved his problems and consolidated his power in England.’

These lessons are all differentiated so can be taught to a high, middle, low or mixed ability group and contain a useful mixture of resources and tasks. Most lessons start with a retrevial stater to help consolidate knowledge and prepare students for their final assessment. These lessons require no textbooks and are user friendly with all resources being numbered or at the end of each PowerPoint. Lesson 2 is a Baseline Assessment which is not included so this is why it is missing.

Homework is also included and we use Flipped learning where students learn the information before coming to the lesson. If you do not wish to use these you can add these tasks to the lessons with very little fuss. However I do believe the scheme of work works much better doing them this way.