Target concepts: characteristic features of the period and significance
This task is designed to elicit pupils’ understanding of the contribution of Mary Seacole to the development of nursing. When it would be easy to see her doing the same work as Florence Nightingale, we need to know that pupils have grasped the differences between their work. In so doing they will demonstrate an understanding of significance, both at the time and later, as well as a sense of period.
The first task is designed to be accessible for all, even though it is actually quite demanding, thereby allowing higher-attainers to display their detailed knowledge.
The second task goes deeper. Three images prompt all pupils to display their knowledge capturing as they do three crucial aspects of her contribution: nursing on the battlefield of the Crimea and saving lives directly in this way; running the British hotel which offered supplies, square meals and comfort for the soldier; and finally her determination to rise above discrimination and rejection to pay her own way to the Crimea and to expose herself to the dangers of warfare. The markscheme gives details what we might expect pupils to know but generally the first two points
