A no-prep, 6-lesson history unit on A significant turning point in British history. Written for Year 5 (ages 9-10). 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 women in Britain win the vote - and what did it cost them?

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 significant turning point in British history - the campaign for votes for women (1832-1928)
• The 1832 Reform Act explicitly excluded women - for the first time, the word ‘male’ entered British election law
• Decades of peaceful petitioning (the suffragists) and dramatic militant action (the suffragettes) 1860s-1914
• How women won the vote - partial 1918, equal 1928 - and what it cost

What pupils will learn

• Pupils know that the 1832 Reform Act used the word ‘male’ for the first time, formally excluding women from voting
• Pupils know the difference between SUFFRAGISTS (peaceful, Millicent Fawcett, NUWSS 1897) and SUFFRAGETTES (militant, Emmeline Pankhurst, WSPU 1903)
• Pupils know about the slogan ‘DEEDS NOT WORDS’ and the WSPU’s tactics - heckling, window-smashing, hunger strikes
• Pupils know about hunger strikes from 1909, force-feeding, the 1913 ‘Cat and Mouse Act’, and Emily Davison at the 1913 Derby
• Pupils know that women’s war work in WW1 (1914-18) was a turning point that helped change Parliament’s mind
• Pupils know about the 1918 Representation of the People Act - votes to women OVER 30 who met a property qualification
• Pupils know about the 1928 Equal Franchise Act - votes for all women over 21, the same as men