A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on A study of a theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066. Written for Year 6 (ages 10-11). 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: Why has Britain’s idea of CRIME - and its way of PUNISHING criminals - changed so much over 2,000 years?

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 - KS2 History: A study of a theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066 - Crime and Punishment through Time
• Crime, courts and punishment from Roman Britain to today
• Continuity and change in how Britain has dealt with wrongdoing
• Reformers who changed the law (Robert Peel, Elizabeth Fry, etc.)

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know how Roman Britain enforced the law using soldiers, fines and harsh public punishment
• Pupils know Anglo-Saxon Britain used WERGILD (blood money) and TRIAL BY ORDEAL - a system where God was the judge
• Pupils know medieval and Tudor punishments were PUBLIC and often THEATRICAL - stocks, pillories, public hangings
• Pupils know the BLOODY CODE (1688-1820s) made over 200 crimes punishable by death - until reformers fought back
• Pupils know Sir ROBERT PEEL set up Britain’s first MODERN police force in 1829 and that the death penalty for ordinary crimes was abolished in 1965

What pupils will be able to do

• Pupils can sequence five major historical periods on a CRIME-AND-PUNISHMENT timeline
• Pupils can identify CONTINUITY (what STAYED THE SAME) and CHANGE (what was DIFFERENT) across centuries