Assessment tasks
Ancient Egypt – assessment task – The afterlife
Key Elements: ideas, attitudes and beliefs This assessment tasks focuses on a single picture. Pupils are asked how the image…
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Ancient Greece – assessment task – Life for women in Ancient Greece
This is a Year 6 task which focuses on Key Element 2a : characteristic features of life for men women…
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Anglo-Saxons – assessment task – What were the main changes that took place in Anglo-Saxon England?
Focus: significance and change Using 3 images to help you, what were the most important changes that took place in…
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Early Islamic Civilisation – assessment task – Why was life in 10th century Baghdad was so significant.
Using two contrasting illustrations to help them, pupils have to explain why life in 10th century Baghdad was so significant….
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Mayan civilisation – assessment task – What can we tell about Mayan society 1,000 years ago?
Focus skill/concept: Understanding characteristic period features and cultural diversity Using 3 images pupils are set the task to explain what…
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Roman Britain – assessment task – interpretations of Boudicca
Focus: interpretations Another Year 4 task in which pupils have to compare two unseen illustrations from books about Boudicca. Having…
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Roman Britain – assessment task – Why did the Romans invade?
Focus: causation Short written explanation or, for some, the completion of two speech bubbles. What did the Romans / Claudius…
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Roman Britain – assessment task – Roman legacy
Assessing pupils’ understanding of the legacy of the Roman Empire on life in Britain This task is designed to elicit…
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Stone Age to Iron Age – assessment task – changes from Stone Age to Iron Age
Focus: sequencing This Y3/4 task is highly visual and entails simple sequencing of unseen images followed by reason why changes…
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Tudor Britain – assessment task – What can we learn about the way Elizabeth ruled the country from portraits
Focus: evaluation of sources Children work on an unseen portrait after the teacher has read out the caption which explains…
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Victorian Britain – assessment task – How do we know this picture shows Victorian Britain?
Pupils are given artist’s impression of a typical Victorian scene which they have never seen before. They have to identify…
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Vikings – assessment task – Depictions of the Vikings
Focus: historical interpretation After looking at similarity and difference between two depictions of the Vikings, pupils then offer reasons why…
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WW2 – Assessment task – How do we know that this picture shows England at the beginning of the Second World War?
Focus: characteristic features of life for men, women and children Once again based on a very detailed and colourful artists’…
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