TOPIC WEB
YEAR 4
Mrs Lambert
Spring 2 2014
HISTORY
 Share chns knowledge of Tudors
Tudor Royalty and Religion
 Locate the Tudors in history
 Learn about the Tudor family – make family trees, timeline of Tudor
Monarchs
 Learn about the Tudor Rose – make these
 Research and learn about Henry VIII as a King and as a person
 Use portraits to gather information
 Research Henry VIIIs 6 wives – who they were, what happened to them,
why?
 Find out about Henry VIII’s children
 Dissolution of monasteries by Henry VIII – linked to trip
Tudor Life
 Research and learn about the differences in rich and poor Tudor living –
in houses, clothes, food, work, lifestyle
 Watch a DVD on Tudor life to learn about it – how is it different to today?
 Recognise who Shakespeare was and what he did
MUSIC
 Listen to music composed by Henry VIII
(Greensleeves)
 Learn song about Henry VIII
LITERACY
 Reading and writing Tudor non-fiction, setting
descriptions, learning Tudor vocabulary, finding and
recording information about Tudors
 Reading – historical fiction and non-fiction books
based on Tudors – namely Henry VIII and Tudor life
 Character profiles on Henry VIII
 Diary entries from that time period
 Drama – hot seating activities (Henry VIII, one of
the wives/children, a poor Tudor), play about Henry
VIIIs life; ole play a poor landowner
 Posters about the difference in rich and poor Tudor
(clothes/work/food/houses)
 Learn a play about the Tudors – for assembly
WOW Experiences
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Dissolution of the monastery
o Geog link – locate major
monasteries on maps of
varying scales
Religious changes in Tudor
times
History of the Bible in English
 Tudor day – Tudor banquet, Tudor
games, dress up, role play as Tudors,
share homework projects, Tudor quiz,
puppet show?
 Class Assembly
 Tudor Trip – Temple Newsam
SCIENCE
 Diseases in Tudor times – what they were,
how they caught them, how they were cured
ART
TUDORS
ICT
 Research Henry VIII, 6 wives and Tudor life
using internet search engines and preselected websites
 Presentational Programmes – PowerPoint’s,
publisher, posters, text and graphics
 SMARTboard
 Digital camera and video camera used
 Watch DVD on Tudor life
 Make a Tudor rose
 Planning portraits
 Drawing – portraits of Henry VIII and
wives, pictures of Tudor artefacts,
Tudor gardens
 Portraits to be decorated in any
medium chosen by child (e.g. pastels,
paint, coloured pencils etc)
 Collage based portrait of Henry VIII
(whole class)
 Look at artists in that period
D.T
 Plan, design and make Tudor houses in pairs.
Make a Tudor street
 Design Tudor gardens (extra)
 Baking/cooking – making marzipan Tudor
roses, currant cake
 Textile – Make puppets, design and make
clothing for puppets based on Tudor clothing
(extra), making ruffs for banquet