The Tudors Topic Enrichment Pack

Step into the fascinating world of the Tudors with this cross-curricular pack designed to captivate and inspire your Year 3/4 children! This Tudors KS2 Topic Enrichment Pack offers seven exciting lessons across Art, DT, Geography and Music, all thoughtfully designed to help your class build essential skills while exploring this dramatic period of history.

Your class will:

• Explore and recreate some famous Tudor portraits and work with clay to create a Tudor rose
• Design, make and evaluate a model of a Tudor house
• Compare modern-day England to England in the Tudor period, and locate on a map where Tudor explorers travelled to
• Practise singing Tudor-themed songs in unison and as a round.

Whether you’re looking to enrich your existing Tudors topic or deliver a mini cross-curricular project, this pack provides everything you need—lesson plans, slides, activity sheets and resources—ready to download and teach.

You might also like our Tudors Topic Bundle – perfect if you want a cross-curricular approach to your teaching! 

Tudor Portraits

Download this Tudor Portraits KS2 Art lesson to turn your Year 3/4 children into budding Holbeins! During the teaching input, your class will be introduced to Hans Holbein and other artists, and explore some of the most famous Tudor portraits of the royal family. As they go through the pictures on the included slideshow presentation, your children will consider what portraits say about the subject, as well as exploring the style and colours used by the artist.

During their independent learning activities, your class can then either complete a Tudor portrait from half a picture, or pose for their own Tudor-style portraits!

An easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for the teaching input, differentiated activity ideas and printable resources are all included in the Tudor Portraits KS2 Art Pack!

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The Tudor Rose

Download this Tudor Rose KS2 Art lesson to help your class transform the Tudor rose into creative works of art!

In the included slideshow presentation for the teaching input, your class will learn what the Tudor Rose is and what it symbolises. They will then be shown some simple step-by-step photo instructions for how to work with clay to create their own clay Tudor rose. There are some top tips included to help them along! They can then have a go at making a Tudor rose for themselves, shaping the clay and painting once dry.

The Tudor Rose KS2 Art Pack includes everything you need for a successful lesson: a clear, easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for whole-class input, differentiated activity ideas, and ready-to-print resources, all designed to support confident and creative teaching.

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Tudor Houses

This Making Tudor Houses KS2 DT lesson for Year 3 or Year 4 challenges your children to design and make their own model Tudor house. The lesson starts by exploring the features of Tudor houses and how they were built through the included slideshow presentation for the teaching input. It then shows your class some step-by-step photo suggestions for how they can construct their model Tudor houses from a variety of materials.

During their independent learning tasks, your class can then use what they have learnt to design and then build their own model Tudor houses. There are a range of helpful printable resources, including worksheets and picture cards, to support them as they do this.

The Tudor Houses KS2 Art Pack has everything you need for an engaging lesson: a clear, easy-to-follow plan, a set of PDF slides for whole-class teaching, differentiated activity ideas, and printable resources, all designed to help your pupils explore Tudor architecture through creative and hands-on learning.

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England Then and Now

This Tudor Geography lesson for KS2 children in Year 3 or Year 4 explores the physical and human geography of England, comparing England today with England during the Tudor period. During the teaching input, your children are first challenged to identify some similarities and differences between Tudor London and London today. The included slideshow presentation then provides information about what England was like during the fifteenth century.

During their independent learning time, your class can then further explore and compare the geographical features of England in the Tudor period and today. Alternatively, take them around your local town and see what features would and wouldn't have been there in Tudor times.

This England Then and Now KS2 Geography Pack includes a clear plan, engaging slides, differentiated tasks, and printable resources - perfect for comparing Tudor and modern England with ease!

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Tudor Explorers

Explore the world of Tudor travel with this Tudor Explorers KS2 Geography lesson for Year 3 & Year 4 children. Your class will find out all about the fascinating period of discovery during the Tudor period as explorers such as Walter Raleigh and Christopher Columbus took to the seas to discover new lands.

The included slideshow presentation for the teaching input introduces your class to the idea that the Tudors didn't have the same understanding of the globe as we have today. They will then meet some famous Tudor explorers (Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh), exploring how their travels contributed to an understanding of the world. During their independent learning, there is then a choice of several activities – children can either plot the route of the Tudor explorers on a world map, or use a variety of sources to answer questions.

In this Tudor Exploreres KS2 Geography lesson pack, you’ll find a detailed lesson plan, engaging PDF slides, differentiated tasks, and ready-to-use resources - everything needed to bring Tudor exploration to life.

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Singing Rounds

This ready-to-teach Tudor Music lesson for KS2 children takes familiar rounds (such as Row, Row, Row Your Boat) and puts a Tudor twist on it by changing the lyrics. The slides demonstrate these familiar rounds (including showing the musical notation) to get children used to singing them, before challenging them with some rounds with Tudor-themed lyrics. Your class even have the chance to create their own Tudor lyrics if they wish!

A fantastically fun lesson that will have your class singing rounds together in no time! And it's all planned and ready for you to teach and enjoy with your class.

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Henry VIII Song

In this fun Tudor Music lesson, your class will learn, sing and perform a Henry VIII song to the tune of Greensleeves and with lyrics that describe his marriages to his six wives.

The lesson starts by taking a look at what music and musical instruments were like in the Tudor period and look at Henry VIII as a musician himself. It then goes on to look at the original version of Greensleeves (which is thought to have been Henry VIII's song about Anne Boleyn) before learning a new version with original lyrics.

The lesson not only includes an easy-to-follow lesson plan, slides and printable resources, but also backing tracks for the song. There is even a version of the track with Henry VIII himself singing!

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