A four-page knowledge organiser outlining the key information about Hardwick Hall including:
Context - Renaissance, Great Chain of Being, Gentry
Who was Bess of Hardwick?
Why was Hardwick Hall built?
Interior of Hardwick Hall
Exterior of Hardwick Hall
Key themes of the historic environment
A knowledge organiser crafted to cover the key topics required for the AQA History GCSE Elizabethan England paper. The knowledge organiser is helpfully split into three sections:
Elizabeth and her court
Troubles at Home and Abroad
Life in Elizabethan England
They are a great accompanyment to the Historic Environment knowledge organisers that I have produced.
A knowledge organiser which focuses on the 2026 AQA Historic Environment site: The Globe.
It covers:
Context - Golden Age, Rise of Gentry & Great Chain of Being
The creation of permament theatres
William Shakespeare and Richard Burbage
The creation of the Globe - why was it built? where was it built?
Features of the Globe - annotated diagram
The importance of the Globe in Elizabethan society
This collection of lessons & resources covers the AQA GCSE History Historic Environment for 2026 - the Globe Theatre.
What’s included:
Context lesson - introduction to Elizabethan Theatre, why it became popular, why there was opposition
Introduction to the Historic Environment - what is the HE? What is the Globe? Who were the Lord Chamberlain’s Men? William Shakespeare
Features of the Globe - seating, stage, special effects etc.
How to answer the Historic Environment essay - decode the question, planning an answer & model answer
Historic Environment Knowledge Organiser - for students to use for revision
Although they are designed for 100-minute lessons, they can easily be adapted for 60 minute lessons.
Revision booklet designed for Year 7s, which covers the basics of the Norman Conquest including:
Claimants to the Throne
Battle of Stamford Bridge
Battle of Hastings
This uses a mixture of retrieval activities and question planning (sources, describe questions) to support students with their revision
A complete history revision booklet, designed for the UL curriculum. It covers the following topics:
World Views in 1000AD
Norman Conquest and Control
Religion in the Middle Ages
Medieval Mali
Challenges to Medieval Monarchs
An hour-long lesson on the 1930s and its popular culture, as part of the AQA GCSE syllabus for America: Inequality and Opportunity 1920-1973.
It features:
A lesson PowerPoint
An activity sheet
An information sheet
All my lessons are designed with a range of abilities in mind, providing scaffolding for weaker pupils and extensions for the more able. They also integrate exam question skills to ensure that students are not only learning the material, but are able to deploy it effectively for their exam.
An A3 sheet which covers the key individuals and their discoveries from the AQA GCSE Medicine course. This was designed to help 4+ students but can be used for all abilities as a way of learning a few key facts about every individual
Revision booklet designed for the United Learning curriculum. It covers the following topics:
The Reformation
Religious Rollercoaster
English Civil War
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This is a four page knowledge organiser which outlines the key ideas of Drake’s circumnavigation (the Historic Environment for the Elizabethan topic for AQA)
These lessons are taught at the beginning of Year 7 to introduce students to world religions, and the beliefs which connect Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
These lessons have been planned for 100-minute lessons, but can easily be adapted to suit the needs of your class / school.
The lessons featured are:
Religion locally and nationally
The story of Genesis
Noah and the Ark
Abraham’s Covenant
Moses and the Exodus
An A3 worksheet which accompanies the BBC documentary ‘Growing Up Jewish’ which is available on BBC iPlayer. This could be used as cover work in Religious Studies or as an extended task for students to investigate bar/bat mitzvahs
A complete unit on Judaism. Although these lessons were planned with Year 7 in mind, they could easily be used for other KS3 classes and adapted. This unit contains lessons on the following:
Jewish identity, including Orthodox and Reform Judaism
Jewish Scripture - the Tenakh, Torah and 10 Commandments
Hanukkah
Synagogues
Pesach
Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur
Lessons on Abraham and Moses can be found in my other unit: Origins of Abrahamic Faiths
A3 worksheet and information sheet which can be used to look at the causes of the English Civil War. This was aimed at top-set Year 8 as a revision activity, but this would also work as a learning activity too.
Resources with cover the following Historic Environment studies as part of the AQA Elizabethan England British Depth Study:
Drake’s Circumnavigation - knowledge organiser
Hardwick Hall - knowledge organiser
The Globe - knowledge organiser and lesson pack
Elizabethan England Knowledge Organiser
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Revision lessons which focus on specific topics and application to an exam-style question. The topics covered are:
Germany: Democracy and Dictatorship
Conflict and Tension: Interwar Years
Britian, Health and the People
Elizabethan England
Bunting for a display showcasing students’ work. It is modelled on the concept of a ‘WAGOLL’ (What a good one looks like) which is used widely in schools, however it is fully editably for those who have a different slogan in mind.