A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509. Written for Year 7 (ages 11-12). Pick it up at lunchtime, teach it that afternoon - every lesson has a full teacher script, projectable slides, a pupil worksheet, and an exit quiz.
Driving question: How did medieval England survive losing nearly half its population in eighteen months - and did the Black Death really change everything?

What’s included

• 6 x Teacher lesson plans (Word, fully scripted)
• 6 x Pupil worksheets in 3 differentiated tiers (Support / Core / Stretch)
• 6 x Projectable slide decks (PowerPoint, ~22 slides each)
• 6 x Exit quizzes (single-page printable, with answer key)
• 1 x Knowledge Organiser (Word, 2-page A4 landscape)
• 1 x End-of-unit assessment with baseline + mark scheme
• 50+ original illustrations included throughout
• Curated kid-appropriate YouTube videos linked from each lesson’s slide deck

Curriculum links

• UK National Curriculum - KS3 History: The development of Church, state and society in Medieval Britain 1066-1509
• the Black Death and its effects on medieval society and economy
• religious responses to crisis in 14th-century Europe
• the long-term economic consequences of demographic collapse

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know what the Black Death was - pathogen (Yersinia pestis), forms (bubonic, pneumonic, septicaemic), vectors (rat-flea + person-to-person)
• Pupils know the chronology of arrival in England (June 1348, Melcombe Regis) and its spread across the country in 1348-49
• Pupils know the range of medieval responses - religious (flagellants, scapegoating, Bishop Ralph of Shrewsbury), medical (Galenic miasma theory), administrative (the Ordinance of Labourers 1349; Statute of Labourers 1351)
• Pupils know the long-term economic consequences - labour shortage, real-wage rises, decline of villeinage, the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 as a downstream effect
• Pupils can evaluate three contested interpretations: high vs low mortality estimates; revolutionary vs incremental economic change; was the post-plague century the start of European modernity?

What pupils will be able to do