Summer 1 Week 5 The Elizabeths - Old Palace Primary School

Summer 1 Week 5
  The Elizabeths

Session 1
LI: To know what might be found in a
           Tudor kitchen

Last week we looked at the different foods the Tudors ate.

Who do you think prepared the food? Where
might they have prepared it?

Take a look at these pictures inside the kitchens at Hampton Court Palace. This is just one example of what
a Tudor kitchen looked like. What do you notice? Think about your kitchen. Are they similar or different to
what kitchens look like now?

The Royal Kitchens
The royal Tudor kitchens would make around 1000 meals a day.
The meat would be cooked on a spit (metal rod where meat was cooked, and turns slowly) in a
huge fireplace.

This is Hampton Court Palace. It was one of King Henry
VIII’s palaces, which is now owned by Queen Elizabeth II.

Did you know?
Henry VIII built gigantic kitchens to feed the
many hundreds of members of his court
(Hampton Court Palace). That meant cooking
two meals a day for at least 800 people!

It was also recorded that during the reign of
Elizabeth I, the amount of meat cooked in the
royal kitchens in one year was; 1,240 oxen,
8,200 sheep, 2,330 deer, 760 calves, 1,870
pigs and 53 wild boars.

Watch this video about Tudor kitchens. Think about how it
used to be in kitchens. Who would work in the kitchen? How
long did they used to work for? How did they prepare food?
   https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/clips/z2dw2hv

Let’s take a closer look at some of the features of Tudor
kitchens:
  Spit
  A common way of cooking meat in Tudor times was on a spit over an open fire

Cooking Stoves
As well as the huge fireplaces, there were small fires cooking food in pots.

The cooking pots were placed over holes in the work surfaces.

Bread Ovens
Bread was baked in large stone ovens.

Larders – A cool room in a narrow passage to store dried food and fish

Activity: Can you label and sort these kitchen tools into Tudor
and Modern time tools?
                                             Key Vocabulary
Tudor Kitchen Tools   Modern Kitchen Tools   Kettle    gas oven      spit
                                             refrigerator   larder     bread
                                             oven     cooking stoves
                                             toaster microwave

Session 2
LI: To know why Queen Elizabeth I is
    remembered as a great queen

One of the roles of a monarch is to try and make the country rich. Our queen helps to do this
by meeting with business leaders to encourage them to build factories here and to let us sell
them things.

Can you remember the names of
these monarchs?

New World
Elizabeth I is remembered as a great queen, as England grew rich under her rule.

                                                          Ferdinand Magellan
                       Christopher Columbus

                     Let’s recap: Great sailors like Christopher Columbus
                     and Ferdinand Magellan had discovered the
                     continent of America. This had made their countries
                     very wealthy as they had taken gold from these lands
                     and sold some of their people as slaves.

New World
England also benefited from the New World. England developed a strong navy.
They used this to attach some of the ships returning from the New World to Spain,
stealing the gold and sending it to England instead.

                        They also discovered and claimed new land in North
                        America, now the USA and sent people to live there.
                        Two famous English explorers that helped Queen
                        Elizabeth I and the country become rich were:
                                 Sir Francis Drake   and   Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Francis Drake
He was the first Englishman to sail around
the world 50 years after Ferdinand
Magellan had done so. His ship was called
the Golden Hind. He was very good at
attacking and stealing from the Spanish
ships.

Sir Walter Raleigh
He was an explorer who set up colonies
in North America. Some say that he
introduced the potato to England,
presenting this as a gift to Elizabeth. He
was one of the queen’s favourites and
some say she was in love with him!

Activity: Can you remember why these two English
 explorers helped the Queen?
 Explain the key facts about each person to someone in your
 family.

Key words: rich   sailed country explorers Spain   North America Golden Hind potatoes

Session 3
LI: To know that the English defeated the
            Spanish Armada

Another role of Queen Elizabeth I was to lead the country’s forces.
One of her successes was defeating (win in a battle) the Spanish Armada.

     Spain was a very powerful country and they wanted England to go back to having the
     Pope in charge of the church. Elizabeth I was against this as she wanted to keep the
     Church of England set up by her father. They were also angry that Sir Francis Drake and
     other English sailors had been attacking Spanish ships to steal the gold they were taking
     from the New World.

The Spanish Armada
In 1588 the Spanish sent a huge fleet (groups of ships) to invade England. It had 130 ships fitted
with 2,500 guns and carried 30,000 soldiers. The English had far fewer ships and it looked as
though the Spanish would win. Elizabeth I gave an important speech to the soldiers while they
waited for the Armada to arrive.
                                        ‘Armada’ means a fleet of warships.

The famous Spanish Armada was sent to
England by Philip II of Spain in 1588.

Philip II’s plan was to:
• gather an armada together of 130
   ships;
• sail to the Netherlands where the
   Spanish Army would be picked up;
• invade England.

The Series of Events in 1588
1.   The Spanish ships leave Lisbon to pick up soldiers. However, due to
     bad weather, they have to return.

2.   The Spanish fleet leave for the second time from Spain.

3. The Spanish are spotted as they pass Plymouth.

4. The English fleet, led by Sir Francis Drake, attack the Spanish in
  the English Channel but the Armada are in a crescent formation
  and no ammunition can get through, so Sir Francis Drake retreats
  (moves back).

5. The Spanish
  Armada stops near
  Calais (coast of
  France).

6. Sir Francis Drake takes the English fleet to Calais to attack the
  Spanish again. His crew set fire to 80 English ships and sailed them
  towards the Spanish Ships. This caused the Spanish ships to scatter.

7. The Spanish ships are
  chased away from England
  via the North Sea towards
  Scotland.

8. When rounding Scotland and Ireland, the Spanish ships encounter
  bad weather and ships and men are lost.

9. The remaining Spanish Armada returns to
    Spain and England was safe.

Did you know?
Although Queen Elizabeth II is still head of the forces,
she has a much lesser role as now Parliament and the
Prime Minister decide on these matters.

Activity: Can you retell what happened during the Spanish
Armada using these images?

Key Vocabulary: Spanish Armada Sir Francis Drake Calais return fleet spotted bad weather
Plymouth Scotland

Session 4
LI: To recognise landmarks from aerial
             photographs

Recap:
What do you remember about aerial view and ground
level view? Let’s think back to our learning in
autumn...

This is a map drawn from a road view. Have a look. Do you recognise
any of the London landmarks? Can you see where Buckingham Palace
is?

What symbols can you recognise? Think back to our learning on maps
in autumn. Do you remember what they represent?

      Restaurants

      Parks and
      natural areas

      Train station

Can you remember the vocabulary we use when giving and following
directions?
                         north/up/forward

        left/west                              right/east

                    down/south/back/backward

Activity: Can you give directions to your family member on how
to get to Buckingham Palace from Victoria station?