Victoria Becomes Queen

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Victorians Long live the Queen

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Objectives

History

Continue to develop a chronologically secure knowledge and understanding of British, local and world history, establishing clear narratives within and across the periods they study.
Study an aspect or theme in British history that extends pupils’ chronological knowledge beyond 1066: the changing power of monarchs using case studies such as Victoria.
Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.

English

Retrieve, record and present information from non-fiction.
Note and develop initial ideas for writing, drawing on reading and research.

Lesson Planning

Review the children's knowledge of British monarchs and focus in on Queen Victoria’s childhood and coronation.

Teaching Outcomes:

To develop an understanding of a timeline of British monarchs.
To study the events that lead to Queen Victoria’s Coronation and the celebrations of the day.
To research and write a front-page newspaper article about the Coronation of Queen Victoria from the point of view of one of the people present on this day.

Children will:

Investigate and establish a timeline of British monarchs.
Study the events that lead to Queen Victoria’s Coronation and the celebrations of the day.

Planning

Provided Resources

Think, Pair, Share resource sheet.
List of British Monarchs.
Profile of a Monarch template.
A British Monarchs mnemonic poem.
Factsheet about Victoria’s Coronation.
Victoria’s diary entry for her Coronation.
Victorian Times resource.

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

Interactive timeline from Queen Victoria's Journals
History of Victoria’s reign from Historic Royal Palaces
Useful clips about the Victorians from bbc.co.uk
Links to info about Victoria from victorianweb.org
Basic introduction to Queen Victoria from bbc.co.uk
Synopsis of Queen Victoria’s reign including a download of extracts from her diary