Lesson Plan

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.

How will this lesson build on prior learning?

Learning Objective(s):
To recall, select and organise historical information.

Success Criteria/ Steps To Success:

To be able to put the dates of Annes life in chronological order.

To use dates and historical vocabulary to describe the

events of Annes life.

Reference to documentation /cc links:

Art- drawing pictures to match the story boards.
Literacy- Story board with writing under each picture.
NC- Pupils should continue to develop a chronologically
secure knowledge and understanding
of British, local and world history, establishing clear
narratives within and across the
periods they study.
Potential misconceptions:
That the children are going to be learning mainly about King
Henry VII, or the Tudors, however the focus for the following
lessons will specifically be on Anne Boleyn.
That a story board does not have to be in chronological
order, they may put dates in random order.
Key terminology/language

Year Group: 4

The children should have a brief knowledge of Anne Boleyn from

the sources they discovered in the first lesson, however this
lesson will build on their knowledge substantially.

To recognise what has changed in time from when Anne Boleyn

was alive to now.

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.

Health and Safety Requirements

Tudor, birth, death, date, life, event, timeline, story board,

married, beheaded.

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)

Resources/ ICT application

Timeline on cards, Storyboard worksheets and statements,
glue sticks, pencils, coloured pencils, and camera.

Planned use of other adults:

Other adults can work with the children cutting and sticking
making sure they stay on task and do this safely.

Introduction and engagement with learning

Timings

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?

and as a class discuss this.

Explain they will be creating a story board of Anne Boleyns life.
They must choose 6 key events, the birth of anne and the death must be
included.
Make sure they do the story board in the correct order.

Timings

35
minutes

Why did Anne not having a son put a

strain on her marriage to the king?
Do you think she was guilty or did
Henry lie?

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

What events are you going to

choose?
What picture would go well with this?

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.