Before our half term holiday, Year 8 History students have been working on 18th Century changes in France. Students were asked to produce short comic – like summaries of the key issues. Students really enjoy working with this application and as well as getting to grips with key issues of the time, they have fun [...]
We’ve recentlycompleted work on various aspects of Tudor life. In previous lessons we had studied different types of beggars and thieves of this time. We looked a little more deeply at the “King” of thieves – Nicholas Jennings and created fake Facebook profiles for him. Click on this link to access the information students had to use for this project. [...]
At the end of last term we decided that as Year 8′s were completing their work on the Princes in the Tower – and are about to begin a section on Henry VIII, (well known for his rather portly appearance due to his love of excess) we’d put together a menu for a Tudor Christmas [...]
Year 8 have recently finished work on the French Revolution of 1789. The final events which we learnt about were the execution of Louis XVI and the reign of terror. After a short introduction as to what is expected of a newspaper front page, students used their knowledge of the events and created their own front pages [...]
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