Lesson Length: 45–60 minutes

Ideal for Ys4 to 6, Victorian Britain, Significant Individuals, and Industrial Revolution topics.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand who Lord Shaftesbury was.
• Explain challenges faced by Victorian children.
• Describe how Lord Shaftesbury helped improve lives.
• Use evidence from historical sources.

Skills Developed:
Historical enquiry
Source interpretation
Reading comprehension
Evaluation and judgement

Using a colourful visual source, pupils investigate child labour, poverty, education and working conditions before exploring how Lord Shaftesbury campaigned for change. Activities encourage observation, discussion, historical enquiry and evaluation.

✔ 2min video KS2 suitable introduction
✔ Infographic analysis activities
✔ Bloom’s Taxonomy question set and model answers
✔ Matching worksheets: vocabulary, problems and solutions
✔ Ranking plenary
✔ Creative writing and research extension/homework