RA Resources
RA Resources
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Welcome to RA Resources. I have an extended range of fully resourced, high quality History lessons for KS2, KS3 and GCSE aimed at schools, tutors and home learning. Having taught History abroad and then in Cornwall for 20 years, these lessons reflect my creativity and teaching experience. Please feel free to email me with any enquiries about the resources on offer. You can keep up to date with my latest published lessons using the Facebook link in my shop.

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UPDATED FOR 2025/6 SPEC & EXAM QUESTIONS

  • What were Wolsey’s main foreign policy successes and why?
  • What were Wolsey’s main foreign policy failures and why?
  • Was Wolsey’s foreign policy mainly a success or failure?

This is a fully resourced lesson which includes a printable fact sheet based on the GCSE Edexcel specification as well as worksheets, discussion tasks, engaging background information, warm up tasks and learning reviews.

The downloaded lesson includes the following:

  • 1x A4 printable worksheet
  • 3x A4 printable timelines of events (various abilities)
  • Main Power Point

The 20 slide Power Point:

  • Slide 1: Title slide – The successes and failures of Wolsey’s Foreign Policy.
  • Slide 2: Main Lesson Aims
  • Slide 3-4: As You Enter Warm Up: The Geography of Europe in the 1500s activity – with answers revealed.
  • Slide 5-7: Learning Recap 1: Key term match up activity with printable student worksheet.
  • Slide 8-9: Learning Recap 2: Recapping Wolsey’s foreign policy aims – fill the missing words with answers revealed.
  • Slide 10: Background information: A map outlining the main countries/nations in Europe in 1515 and how they were a threat to England.
  • Slide 11: Starter Task 1: What would you advise Henry to do? – Multiple choice problem solving and discussion task.
  • Slide 12: Source Analysis: Images and questions about the ‘Field of the Cloth of Gold’.
  • Slide 13: Task 1 – Explanation of the timeline activity.
  • Side 14: Task 2 – Wolsey’s successes and failures table
  • Slide 15: Follow Up Challenge Tasks
  • Slide 16: Example exam questions
  • Slide 17-18: Learning Review quiz with answers revealed.
  • Slide 19: Lesson fact sheet linked to the Edexcel specification.
  • Slide 20: Return to the starter task – what did Henry and England do?

All images used in this lesson are in the public domain and are therefore copyright free at the time of publishing. Images which require attribution have been attributed in the notes section of each slide where the image appears. If you feel any errors have been made, please contact me at raschoolresources@gmail.com in the first instance to resolve any issues. My lessons are completed using PowerPoint and designed on widescreen formatting. Thank you.

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