How the Tudors came to Power

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Bosworth crown Ours is a large voluntary-controlled Church of England primary school based in Bootle, Liverpool. The area in which the school is situated could be described as socially deprived, with a large number of children receiving free school meals.

The lessons described introduced a unit on the Tudors through the Battle of Bosworth.

The children had previously covered history units on Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings (in Year 3) and on children in World War II (earlier this year), but they had no, or little, background information about the Tudors. However, one or two children had heard of the key characters from Tudor history.

The rationale behind this project was to identify ways in which ideas based around literacy concepts could be used during a history lesson. I began by identifying the key literacy concepts I wanted to introduce the children to, then, using the QCA scheme of work as a starting-point, I thought about how I could incorporate these key concepts into the history planning, using the history resources available to me at that time. 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 about Tudor homes. So the children had already come across the idea of taking notes, but were still having difficulty in identifying which parts of paragraphs would count as key information.

Into this context, I introduced the idea of pictorial note-taking.

by Jan McKenna-Lacey, Sefton