This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at Wolsey Academy. Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract. The extracts are as follows: Year 7: Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article) Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article) Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article) Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel Year 8: Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article) Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, Year 9: Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought. KS4: Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs Download them all at once at Wolsey Academy Wolsey Academy is a non-profit, with every penny we make from the sale of resources going to one of our charity partners (Details at our website). If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities. Hope it helps.

This is from a Guided Reading Activity from a set of 24 that makes up 4 separate guided reading challenges designed for 4 year groups in KS3 and 4. Each extract is from one of the SPEARS topics (Social, Political, Economic, Armed Conflict, Religious and Science). All are available at Wolsey Academy. Guided Reading is an activity in which students are given an extract (2-4 pages-ish) from a real history book. They have to read through it and annotate it, with a ‘subtitle’ and 1-2 bullet points of key details of each paragraph. At the end there is space for students to write a summary of their learning from the extract. The extracts are as follows: Year 7: Social – Women in Roman Society – Mary Beard, SPQR (article) Political – Norman Control of England – Marc Morris, The Norman Conquest Economics – Aksum Empire – Martin Meredith, The Fortunes of Africa (article) Armed Conflict - Battle of Hastings – Marc Morris, Anglo-Saxons Religious – Islamic Medicine – Firas Alkhateeb, Lost Islamic History (article) Science – Black Death Contagion Theories – Benedict Gummer, The Scourging Angel Year 8: Social – Poverty & Marriage in Industrial Britain – Emma Griffen, Liberty’s Dawn Political – Peterloo Massacre – E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (article) Economic – The Great Exhibition – Ben Wilson, Heyday Armed Conflict – East Indian Company & Sepoys – William Dalrymple, Anarchy Religious – Christianity in The New World – Mark Steward, Great Expeditions Science – Chicago and the Mid-West – William Cronon, Nature’s Metropolis, Year 9: Social – Migration to Britain – Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland Politics – The Rise of Stalin – Frank Dikotter, Dictators Economic – The Rise of Germany – Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron Armed Conflict – Japan’s invasion of China – Rana Mitter, China’s War with Japan Religious – Indian Partition – Barney White-Spunner, Partition Science – Naval Technology – Robert Masse, Dreadnought. KS4: Social – Youth in Nazi Germany – Julia Boyd, A Village in the Third Reich Politics – USA and post war Europe – Odd Arne Westad, The Cold War Economics – Inflation ion Weimar Germany – Richard J Evans, The Coming of the Third Reich Armed Conflict – Rolling Thunder – Max Hastings, Vietnam Religious – USSR and Religion – Simon Sebag Montefiore, Stalin. Science – A Bomb Development – Pap Ndiaye, Nylon and Bombs If you have yet to hear of us, please do visit our site and try the free to play and study Medieval Free Roaming RPG games which students find brilliantly engaging and spice up your lessons/homework activities. Hope it helps.

Get your day off to a great start with a settled tutor session or a fun class reward activity. Also included is a bonus literacy question and an extension task that sees the pupils’ write a paragraph on the topic! Ideal for quick History lesson recaps as well. 11 Presidents - starting with Trump and working our way backwards to JFK. Hope it helps. Have you tried one of Wolsey Academy’s Learning Worlds yet? Our Learning Worlds make for engaging homework and class tasks. Pupils take on the role of a protagonist and relive key historical or fictional events. From 1066 to the modern day. From Shakespeare to Orwell. We’re making Learning Worlds to cover them all - and plenty more besides. Told in a format pupils love they complete the tasks at home and come to class equipped with a completed taskbook – ready to delve deeper into the analysis and debate.

This PowerPoint is all you need to deliver an effective CPD/Training session to your staff on the crucial issues raised in Doing Middle Leadership Right’ by Bawden, Hickin and Macis-Riley. For a the accompanying video please visit:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlHEwaOEbtc Hope it helps. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Part of a Wolsey Academy SOW of 7 lessons with a revision guide and online test at the end. Designed for EAL and weaker students to introduce them to new vocabulary regarding coding, robotics and the future of AI. Later lessons make use of Google Doodles, Ozobots, Robozzle and Scratch to demonstrate some very fundamental coding techniques and functions. Lessons blend key word acquisition with basic skills, ideal for EAL and weaker students. Can also act as a general introduction to these concepts to all classes. Designed for all ICT/Computer Science courses. Impact on society Case study on autonomous vehicles Repeat Functions (via a Google Doodle exercise) Debugging (Using Ozobots) Subroutines (Using Robozzle) Random Function (Scratch Star Wars Game) IF statements and compilers (Scratch Flappy Birds Game) Revision Guide. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This lesson is from a 11 lesson SOW and contains: A. Video Tutorials (Lessons 1 – 10) B. Interactive Progress Checks (Online Quizzes with instant feedback (Lessons 1 – 8)). C. Literacy , Numeracy and ‘Think’ Starters D. A Cross-Curricular Theme to each topic E. Stretch Questioning and Activities F. Literacy mat G. Lesson plan template. This 11 lesson mini SOW has proved invaluable in covering seemingly basic, but often overlooked, skills ready for the Edexcel IGCSE ICT exam, Paper 2 (which covers unit 6). Taken from a SOW that consists of 11 lessons: File Manager. Word, Part A – Climate change project Word, Part B – Climate change project PowerPoint, Part A – Liverpool FC Project PowerPoint, Part B – Liverpool FC Project. Excel, English Premier League Project Excel, Fortnite Project Excel, SpaceX Project First Test Lesson – WW2 project. Post Test Feedback and all tutorials. Final Test – Solar Company project. Hope it helps, WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

Digital Devices - 8. User Interfaces - Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 1 – EAL Catering for Edexcel ICT iGCSE Unit 1. Lesson 1 of 16 (lessons 1 & 2 and the revision guide are free to download) These lessons were made for students in the Middle East and have a strong focus on EAL and keyword acquisition/application. Each lesson has 3-8 keywords on easy to use cards that fit into the lesson activity and also make excellent printable revision resources (the revision guide features them all in one place). Each lesson begins with a different active learning activity, a mini-plenary and a written or creative ICT task requiring the correct application of the keywords. All have stretch questioning to the main activities. Wolsey Academy has had a lot of success with this SOW with EAL students who have really progressed in their understanding of the technically vocabulary involved with the ICT iGCSE.

Part of a Wolsey Academy SOW of 7 lessons with a revision guide and online end of unit test. Designed for EAL and weaker students to introduce them to new vocabulary regarding economics and globalisation. Lessons focus on key word acquisition and simple comprehension tasks (word match up/cloze activities/labelling diagrams etc). As lessons progress more scope for creative and thinking tasks emerge. Every lesson comes with a reward word search puzzle. Made for students at International Schools in the Middle East but ideal for all. Could also act as a general introduction to younger students of all abilities. Globalisation – Key Terms Globalisation – Benefits Globalisation – Negatives Globalisation – Barriers Globalisation – Case Study on United Arab Emirates Globalisation – Food Miles Globalisation – Immigration Globalisation – Revision Guide WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

A lesson from the Scheme of Work for ICT EDEXCEL: IGCSE Unit 5 Applying ICT The lesson includes: An 8-12 minute video screencast by the teacher (me!) instructing students how best to use the lesson and providing greater knowledge, insights and understanding into the key concepts. Literacy/Numeracy/Think settler Kagan Activity for keyword acquisition (Quiz-Quiz-Trade or Relay activity) A main activity dependent on the key topic. A plenary. A set of lesson specific keyword cards. An EAL keyword focus activity sheet This lesson was made during the Covid19 lockdown and therefore is geared for distance learning with every lesson including an instructional video by the classroom teacher (me). Therefore, it is probably best used ‘out of the box’ as a series of homework tasks (it’s only a small unit compared to some of the others). However, I have put the ‘in class’ activities (like Quiz, Quiz, Trade or group activities) in the ‘resources section’ at the end of the PowerPoint so each lesson serves a dual purpose – it can easily be used as an out of the box self-study/homework resource or can quickly be edited for use in classroom by dragging those activities out of the resources section and back into the main part of the lesson. The entire Module 5 SOW includes 7 lessons in all that cover the entire of module 5 for EDEXCEL ICT IGCSE exam Correct use of software types Types of Data Software purpose, part A Software purpose, part B Checking tools Software evaluation End of unit Revision: A range of activities, all 23 key word flash cards & a self-marking online test. This module and modules 4 & 6 are in a totally new style to the previous Wolsey Academy ICT IGCSE module lessons (modules 1- 3) and, as you can see, include a wider range of activities and are presented in a much clearer and colourful way for ease of use. WolseyAcademy.com, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.

This is one lesson from a series of 18 lessons to take students through Module 2 of IGCSE Business Studies: People in Business. In this series of lessons on business studies, we explore the importance of people in business. From understanding the impact of leadership styles to recognizing the significance of employee motivation and communication, this course delves into the key elements of managing and leading people in the workplace. With real-world examples and practical exercises, students will gain valuable insights into how to build effective teams and foster a positive organizational culture. The lessons are as follows: Motivation Theories Incentives Role of Management Organisational Structure Leadership Styles Trade Unions Recruitment Training Employment Law – Discrimination Employment Law – Health and Safety Employment Law – Unfair Dismissal Employment Law – Wage Protection Workforce Planning Internal and External Communications Methods of Communication Direction of Communications Revision Flash Cards Practice Exam Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. #BetterTeachingBetterPlanet We hope it helps.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum. It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The Cold War IGCSE Edexcel One lesson from over forty on the Cold War, designed for the IGCSE Edexcel specification but instantly transferable to any other GCSE (or non-GCSE) curriculum. It begins before the Second World War, with the origins of Communist thinking and the Russian Revolution and continues right through the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the USSR. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, keyword cards and assessments. Focus on developing analytical and writing skills. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

11 of 22 lessons that together teach the entire Vietnam Conflict, 1945-1975. Ideal for all specifications. Each lesson comes with a range of activities, flash cards for revision and assessments and checks throughout. Almost all include a written assessment with guidance and activities that ask students to consider a range of different historical interpretations of the events. All resources needed for the lesson are self-contained within the PowerPoint with printer friendly versions ready to go. The lessons are as follows: Vietnam Overview and Timeline Colonial Vietnam General Giap Dien Bien Phu 1954 Geneva Accords 1954 Domino Theory & McCarthyism Ho Chi Minh The Vietcong Strategic Hamlet Program Overthrow of Diem 1963 Gulf of Tonkin Incident 1964 Vietcong Tactics US Tactics Khe Sanh, Tet & Hue Nixon Doctrine & Vietnamization Opposition to the War – Media & Atrocities My Lai Massacre 1968 Opposition to the War – Students, Kent State and the Draft Support for the War – Hard Hats Peace and the Fall of Saigon 1975 Why did the US Fail? 80 Flashcards Wolsey Academy is a non-profit with every penny we make going to good causes, see our website, Wolsey Academy (Google us), for more information and to access free History games and lots more resources. Hope it helps. W.

1 Lesson from a series of 10 lessons on the History of Early Islam. Each lesson contains keywords and a wide range of activities, with a focus on developing skills and content in this area. Each lesson includes reading comprehension tasks but also a main ‘activity’ that allows students to be creative and apply their new knowledge, there is also a focus throughout on building up long-form writing skills such as paragraph structure. The lessons include: The Birth of the Prophet Mecca and Medina The Ridda Wars Khalid ibn al-Walid Rashidun Caliphate & Battle of Yarmouk | Fall of Byzantium Caliphate on the march | Fall of the Sasanians The Shia Sunni Split The Umayyad Caliphate and Islamic Spain The Abbasid Caliphate and battle of Talas The Abbasid Caliphate and the Golden Age of Islam Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

This lesson covers Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in China. Students will explore his role as the fifth Great Khan of the Mongol Empire, his unification of China, and his contributions to trade, agriculture, and cultural exchange. Activities include video analysis, timeline sorting, and evaluating his major achievements. The lesson aims to illustrate Kublai Khan’s impact on Chinese history, highlighting his governance, infrastructure projects, and promotion of a multicultural society. Taken from a series of 7 lessons on history of Ancient China. They provide an excellent and engaging introduction to ancient China and provide a great foundation for understanding how this vital nation has shaped our world. Each lesson is designed to cover a range of historical and exam skills to build up students knowledge and exam skills ready for any exam board, external and internal. They are also a huge amount of fun to teach! Those lessons are: Shang & Zhou Dynasties Qin Shi Huang (The First Emperor) Confucianism Kublai Khan Silk Roads The Forbidden City Zheng He & The Treasure Fleets Wolsey Academy operates as a non-profit, with every penny we make going to one of our charity partners or into the Ipswich Initiative, funding good works across the town and county. Search for Wolsey Academy to see our website for more details and to purchase resources at a discount. Use code ‘WOLSEY’ for 10% off at the Wolsey Academy Web Store Please help us, help you, help them. Thank you. Hope it helps. W

Indian Independence, Indian Partition and the British Empire – 5 fully resourced Lessons A lesson from a 5-part sequence on the British Empire, Indian independence and Indian Partition. The lessons, and the activities included are seen below. The British Empire in 1900 (5 key theme match up > Round Robin > Class Debate > Paragraph writing skills > retrieval practice). The First World War and Empire (Map questions > Guided Reading > Source Activity > Appositive sentence task > Blooket quiz). Causes of Indian Independence (Cops & Robbers Retrieval > Quiz Quiz Trade > Timeline task > Prioritisation Discussion > Paragraph writing skills) India, Gandhi and the Second World War (Narrative World Building > Comprehension Questions > Gandhi speech analysis > Pamphlet Writing > Extension Reading) Indian Partition (Recap Task > Dual Coding Writing Task > Ms Marvel Case Study > National Archives Source Study > Paragraph Writing skills). Hope they help. Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission.

The History of India This is one lesson from a series of 11 on the History of India. Each lesson includes as a minimum: • A context slide for teacher talk/intro • A reading comprehension task • A sorting/categorising activity of factors/causes. • A writing task with support and guidance. All resources are included within the same PowerPoint for ease of organisation. They have proved very effective with our High School classes. The 11 lessons are as follows: The Mughals (free) The East India Company The Battle of Plessey (free) The Tiger of Mysore The Mahratta Revision & Feedback lesson for unit at half way point Trucial States, UAE & Oman The First War of Indian Independence (1857) Amritsar Massacre & Indian Independence Movement India, Gandhi and the Second World War Bengal Famine 1947 (free) Indian Independence and Partition Wolsey Academy, a non-profit resource provider, directs all profits to various charities, including refugee support, youth sports, educational programs, and carbon capture, achieving a carbon-negative status. Explore our site for resources and free history role-playing games loved by students. Thank you for your dedication to teaching and for supporting our mission. Hope it helps.