This KS2 enquiry comprises three outstanding activities:
6a. Advising the film director
To imaginatively reconstruct the scene using a variety of evidence
6b. Prove it!
Using a gallery of images to test the evidence
6c.Marketplace
An imaginative journey to the theatre showing different experience depending on position in society
Starter
Show slide 2 of the PowerPoint called Key Question 6 Introduction. Three images offer clues as to three of the most popular past times: cock fighting, bear baiting and football. Can pupils work out what they are?
It will strike most pupils that these are rather brutal pursuits.The opening statement and images on slide 3 may surprise them even more, showing how Queen Elizabeth herself loved bull baiting and hunting and hawking.
It is important that pupils realise that there were other non-violent pursuits too – as outlined on slide 5.
Also stress the difference in experience between the rich
