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Date:
Curriculum Focus:
A local history study, a study of an aspect of history or a site
dating from a period beyond 1066 that is significant in the
locality.
Learning Objective(s):
To recall, select and organise historical information.
Year Group: 4
Can place events in order and use terms such as past, present,
then and now and divide the past into separate periods using
dates.
How will individual needs be met?
Some children will cut and stick sentences and dates and draw a
picture, rather than writing their own summary under each story
board picture.
Ensure the children using scissors use the child friendly scissors
when cutting, and hold the scissors carefully if they walk around
the class. (Hand on the cutting side, closed and facing toward
them)
15
minutes.
Explain to the class that we will be looking at the eventful life of Anne Boleyn
using timeline cards.
Ask the children to volunteer to hold up a card and be part of the timeline.
Get some of the children to stand and form a line using the timeline cards,
putting them in the correct order. On the back of the card is information about
what happened in Annes life on that year.
Once they are in order the child can read out what happened in that year
Key Questions
Do you think Anne was rich or poor?
Do you think this would have been
young to move away to france?
What did people think of Henry at th
time, would it have been a priviledge
to marry him?
Timings
35
minutes
Key Questions
Create a story board in order of six key events that happened in Annes life.
Draw detailed pictures with the date and a description of what happened in
that year.
HA- Write sentence and include time connectives such as Then and Finally.
MA- Write a short sentence explaining what happened in the picture including
the date.
LA- Draw a picture and stick the correct sentence below the picture.
Highlight the fact it must be in chronological order from the first picture to the
last.
Plenary / Review of learning
Timing: 10 Mins
Get the children into table groups, and using one of the story boards on the table, act out one scene in a
freeze frame. The rest of the class can guess what event this is.
Teacher takes pictures of these frames.
Explain that before the next history lesson the children will be going on a local trip to Hever Castle.