Learning objective
- To evaluate Lord Shaftesbury’s significance to children’s lives
Success criteria
- I can explain what ‘historically significant’ means.
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National curriculum
History
The national curriculum for history
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Cross-curricular links
English
Reading comprehension
Pupils should
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the Activity: The changes and their impact: support version in the Main event; could use sentence starters on slide 2 of the Presentation: Do children work today? to support their discussions in the Wrapping up .
Pupils working at greater depth
Should identify and rank the most important concerns regarding the working conditions for Victorian children; could put themselves in the position of a Victorian factory owner and explain how they would respond to the Factory Act; could consider how Lord Shaftesbury would assess and reform children’s lives today.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: identifying the
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Vocabulary definitions
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bill
A proposal for a new law.
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Factory Acts
A series of laws passed by Victorian governments to improve the working conditions of children.
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In this unit
Lesson 1: What do sources tell us about how children's lives have changed?
Lesson 2: Why did Tudor children work and what was it like?
Lesson 3: What were children's jobs like in Victorian England?
Lesson 4: How did Lord Shaftesbury help to change the lives of children?
Lesson 5: How and why has children's leisure time changed?
Lesson 6: What were the diseases children caught and how were they treated?
Maintained by: Kapow Primary team
Last update: 27th June, 2024
