A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Written for Year 2 (ages 6-7). 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 is Florence Nightingale called ‘The Lady with the Lamp’?

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 - KS1 History: The lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
• the life of Florence Nightingale (1820-1910), a British nurse who reformed military hospitals during the Crimean War
• comparison with the life of Mary Seacole (also a Crimean War nurse)

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know Florence Nightingale was born in Florence, Italy in 1820 to wealthy British parents
• Pupils know Florence trained as a nurse at Kaiserswerth in Germany in 1851 against her family’s wishes
• Pupils know Florence was sent BY the British government in 1854 to lead 38 nurses to Scutari Hospital
• Pupils know she walked the wards at night with a lamp - earning the name ‘The Lady with the Lamp’
• Pupils know she founded the Nightingale Training School at St Thomas’ Hospital in London in 1860
• Pupils can compare Florence Nightingale with Mary Seacole - both helped soldiers in Crimea, but in different ways

What pupils will be able to do

• Pupils can use simple time words - born, lived, died, then, after
• Pupils can analyse a real primary source (Florence’s 1860 ‘Notes on Nursing’, a few sentences) for what it tells us
• Pupils can compare two people (Florence and Mary) using shared categories