KS2 Tudor London
Medieval London gallery
Teachers notes
These activities are designed to help KS2 pupils studying the Tudors to explore the
Medieval and War, Plague & Fire galleries, and develop historical enquiry skills.
They are designed for use by schools attending booked sessions of Tudor dance &
society, but could also be used by schools making self-directed gallery visits.
They are offered in Microsoft word format so that teachers can adapt for their
pupils’ needs, if they wish.
We suggest you split the class into groups and allocate each group a different
starting point, so that pupils are spread across the gallery.
Please remember to photocopy these activity sheets before your visit. Pupils could
also bring sketch pads to record their visit.
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Medieval London gallery
Notes for adults
Please support your pupils by:
 Discussing the chronology and layout of the galleries:
o the Medieval gallery covers a long period from the Saxons through to
the bustling capital of Tudor times. Learn about the importance of
Christianity, the terror of the Black Death, religious tensions and the
lives of rich and poor people in Tudor times.
o the War, Plague and Fire gallery starts with Elizabethan London, when
Britain had become protestant, but the later part of this gallery covers
the Stuart period up to the Great Fire of London.
 reading and discussing text panels
 discussing the uses of the artefacts on display, whether we use similar things
today and how they compare with objects today.
 discussing whether the artefacts on display are complete or broken and how
they would have looked when they were new
 expanding on the questions within the activity sheets.
This map will help you and your pupils to find your way around (ask gallery Hosts
for help in finding things).
Please supervise your pupils at all times.
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Religious Change
Look at the objects in cases 27.1, 27.2 and 27.3
Draw one of the objects in the box below. Explain underneath what your object is, who
would have used it and what it was used for.
Look at the objects and information in cases 29.6 and 29.7
Circle the correct answer to the questions below
1. During the Reformation, Henry VIII closed the monasteries because:
a) he wanted to turn the buildings into palaces
b) he wanted to weaken the power of the Roman Catholic Church
2. Kind Edward VI was a Protestant and ordered that:
a) there should be no candles or statues in churches
b) church objects should be richly decorated
3. Queen Mary was a Roman Catholic and punished Protestants by:
a) chopping their heads off
b) burning them at the stake
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Books and Education
Look at the objects in case 23
1. Complete the answers to the following questions by choosing one of the words
the list below.
Computer
hornbook
Greek
oyster
Stylus
Russian
tortoise
inkhorn
from
Tudor children learnt to read using a _________________.
At a Grammar School, boys learnt languages like___________ and Latin.
Travellers could use a pen called a __________ to scratch on a wax tablet.
Tudors dipped an ink pen or quill in a _________ to write on parchment.
Tudor artists mixed the ingredients for their paints in _________ shells.
2. Choose two objects from the case that you might have needed if you had gone to
school in Tudor times. Draw them in the boxes below and explain how you would have
used them.
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Work and Trade
Find case 18.1
Complete the chart below by writing the name of one object that was imported from each
country into Tudor London. One example has been done for you.
Country
Object
The Netherlands
Medicine jars
France
Germany
Spain
Italy
Africa
Look around the whole Tudor part of the Gallery
What job would you have liked to do if you had lived in Tudor London?
______________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________
In the box below, draw a picture of something you would have made, or a tool you would
have used in your job.
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Crime and Danger
Find case 16.1
Circle the correct answers to the questions below.
1. A Tudor “cutpurse” stole your money by:
a) picking your pocket
b) slashing the bottom of your purse
c) using your credit card
2. Before accepting a coin, a merchant would:
a) bite it
b) toss it
c) weight it
Find case 19.1
Draw a picture of a Tudor weapon in the box below
Look around the whole of the Tudor part of the gallery. Write down three reasons why
many Tudor Londoners died young:
1. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
2. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
3. ………………………………………………………………………………………………………
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Food and Drink
Find case 17.10
Complete the paragraph by choosing the correct word from the list below.
water
pizza
pottage
chocolate
wine
meat
ale
fish
bread
vegetable
Most ordinary Tudors ate a sort of _____________ stew called _____________. They
would wipe around the bowl with a slice of _____________ and was it down with a drink of
_____________. Rich Tudors liked to eat lots of _____________ and _____________.
They would drink _____________.
Find case 17.7
Fill in the missing letters to spell the names of different fish or seafood eaten by Tudor
Londoners:
1. P _ _ K _ E _
2. D _ I _ D
H __R_N__
__D
3. _ Y _ E _ S
4._ _ L
5. P _ _ E
6. S _ U _ _ E _ N
Find the Elizabethan cooking tools
Draw one of the apple corers. Label it to show what material it is made of.
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