The Great Fire of London is a favourite National Curriculum teaching topic. This paper draws on the latest resources and teaching ideas to suggest how you can meet both the NC history requirements and the wider ones of the National Curriculum, particularly in integrated programmes that include teaching about the Great...

"Why are you so angry Grace?" Teaching and learning about Grace O'Malley as a significant woman at Key Stage 1 Grace O'Malley was an Irish queen in the Tudor period and her story provides insights about life in Ireland at the time of the Elizabethan conquests. Grace, also known as...

This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today Please note: this resource was created prior to the 2014 National...

Please note: these resources pre-date the 2014 National Curriculum.  This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today These...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. What might Queen Elizabeth have been like? Pupils study two documentary sources giving descriptions of Queen Elizabeth I. You need to download two Resources documents (attached below) Then pupils studied the Armada portrait of Queen Elizabeth I and considered factors involved...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The lesson required the children to consider carefully their own opinions about Henry and anything that they knew about him. This was followed up by a literacy lesson in which they used the evidence to express a point of view regarding...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The planning of an English church building in 1530, and what happened to it in the period of the Reformation in the 1540s, provides an excellent focus for the children to learn about what the Reformation meant to Tudor men and...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The lessons described introduced a unit on the Tudors through the Battle of Bosworth. In literacy, we had been learning how to identify key words and use these when writing notes. We had focused on information books, in particular a book...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot is a cracking tale for any age group, although the complex political and religious elements are difficult for young children to understand. However, we can help them to gain insights into past people's motivations and...

This resource is free to everyone. For access to hundreds of other high-quality resources by primary history experts along with free or discounted CPD and membership of a thriving community of teachers and subject leaders, join the Historical Association today This was originally part of a 7-week unit looking at...

The wider world: The Tudors ruled Britain during a fascinating and fast-changing century. Europe emerged from the Middle Ages, and Europeans sailed across the oceans, reaching the East, discovering the New World of America, establishing colonies, and circumnavigating the world for the first time (Ferdinand Magellan in 1517, and Francis...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The topic book blitz approach, where children freely scan a range of topic books, provides both a marvellous stimulus to curiosity and questioning, and an authentic purpose for using research skills. One of our key principles is Questions and Questioning.In this...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. ‘Who am I?' - what can we tell about this person from the clothes he/she is wearing? Pupils use pictures and portraits as evidence for social diversity of Tudor life. Pupils write pen portraits of characters, extending their vocabulary with the...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. This is a highly interactive and stimulating simulation for years 3 and 4, and a very effective way of involving children in a range of issues. We introduced the story of the Armada, outlining the main parties involved and the nature...

The Year 2 story of Magellan and his voyage round the world. The lessons provided part of the history and geography element in a wider topic on ‘Water'. (These resources are attached below) The teaching was done through the powerful medium of storytelling. The first session was taken up by...

Please note: this resource pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. The objectives of this lesson were for the children to: Understand that spoken language and word usage may change over a period of time; Understand that to be able to use an historical document as a source of evidence it is...