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Join our email newsletter to receive free updates! Set up a Tudor-themed day in your classroom with this enormous collection of cross-curricular teaching ideas and activities!

These ideas could also be used over a week, month or term when your children are learning about the Tudors. Use these cursive display letters as part of your 'Tudors' classroom display boards! This set includes every letter in upper and lower case with numbers, maths symbols and punctuation!

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However, the site of the wreck soon became forgotten, that is until when an archaeologist searching the Solent for wrecks came upon a piece of her timber and a cannon. More pieces were brought up the next year and a study began to ascertain whether she could be raised to the surface.

In the dream came true, watched by millions on television, and now the Mary Rose has returned home to a museum in Portsmouth. I visited the museum maryrose. We were also given a fascinating insight into the work that has gone into restoring and preserving her. We found that drama helped to introduce the context of the Mary Rose activities and we began by setting the scene of conditions on board ship.

You can do this simply with the following short activities. On many ships the headroom below deck as only just over 4ft and the sailors had to stoop, even though they were shorter than modern day people. Pin a sheet of cardboard between the uprights of the class door frame at just over four feet and make the older and taller children stoop o go through or stand under the card to see how uncomfortable it must have been.

It was also very dark, so you might want to turn out the lights as well. Ask the children about the risks of working in such conditions. The main challenge for the gun crews was to get the cannons loaded, fired, then reloaded quickly so that they could defeat the enemy. Try recreating this with your class. Use a piece of wide drainpipe, some sand to represent the gunpowder, an orange or grapefruit for the cannonball and a broomstick with a circle of wood or plastic on the end as the packer.

Put the children into gun crews, each with a different job: firer, powder monkey, cannonball fetcher and packer. Now either time each crew to see how quickly they can fire their cannon or race crews against each other. Show the children some x-ray pictures of broken bones. Tell them they were from sailors on the Mary Rose and ask them how you think the bones were broken. Mock up the side of a ship with card strips over a thin wooden frame and throw fire an orange at it to look at the damage.

Discuss how it would have been repaired whilst at sea. Marine archaeologists have been trying for years to discover why the Mary Rose sank so quickly. They have investigated the wreck itself as well as carrying out numerous experiments with models. Here, children will take on the role of marine archaeologists to find out for themselves what might have gone wrong.

A freak wave and a strong gust of wind have been blamed for the sinking and children should experiment with both to see which is the most likely cause. Prior to the lesson, add a measured quantity of gravel to the inside of a cereal box.

Now turn the box on its side, place it gently into water and mark the depth of displacement. Adjust the ballast as necessary so that a quarter of the box is underwater. In the lesson, ask the children to decorate the box like a medieval warship and to carefully cut out gun ports.

Now they should reconstruct the box before coating the lower two thirds with varnish or glue, being careful to pack any gaps with glued or varnished paper. When the glue is dry, add a paper sail to a dowel that can be turned to the front or side of the ship and begin the tests. Use a small inflatable paddling pool and fill it to a depth of about six inches.

Find out who the Tudors were and their way of life, from the Armada to Tudor Entertainment. History on the net - The Tudors This website covers a huge amount of information on the Tudors. Horrible Histories - Terrible Tudors. Tudor Shop.

Search for Tudors. He had six wives: Catherine of Aragon - Catherine had a daughter with Henry, but no son so Henry divorced her. Anne Boleyn - Anne had a daughter who would be Queen Elizabeth I with Henry, but Henry turned against his wife and had her head chopped off. Jane Seymour - They had a son, Edward who was the next King but she died two weeks after he was born.

Anne of Cleves - Henry divorced Anne after only six months. Catherine Howard - Catherine was only 19 when they married. Henry had her head chopped off. Katherine Parr - She looked after Henry's children. It began as a country house, built in the 13th century. From to it was the seat of the Boleyn family.

The houses they used to live in, their way of life and more. Also on Super Brainy Beans.