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Soldier to Healer

Sir Walter Raleigh's Medicinal Garden at the Tower

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Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned at the Tower of London for 13 years. Under constant threat of execution, Raleigh struggled with poor mental health. Learn about Sir Walter Raleigh through the story of his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his medicinal garden.

National Curriculum links

  • Lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements
  • Be able to ask and answer simple questions about historical stories
  • Explore how to maintain physical, mental and emotional health and wellbeing

Learning objectives

  • Learn about Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Learn what Sir Walter did to help himself keep well when he was a prisoner in the Tower
  • Explore how different sensory experiences can help us increase own our sense of wellbeing

Resource Information

Key Stage

  • SEND

Subjects

  • PSHE
  • English

Topic

  • Stuarts
  • Elizabethans
  • Crime & Punishment

Type

  • Lesson ideas

Palace

  • Tower of London
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Sir Walter Raleigh was imprisoned at the Tower of London for 13 years. Under constant threat of execution, Raleigh struggled with poor mental health. Learn about Sir Walter Raleigh through the story of his imprisonment in the Tower of London and his medicinal garden.

Key Stage

  • KS2 (age 7-11)
  • KS3 (age 11-14)
  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)
  • SEND
  • Home Educators

Subject

  • History
  • PSHE

Topic

  • Stuarts
  • Elizabethans
  • Crime & Punishment

Self-guided historical enquiry designed to support GCSE students studying the Normans, in particular the AQA historic environment of Norman England.

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)
  • KS5 (age 16+)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Normans

A selection of primary and secondary image and written sources

Key Stage

  • KS4 (age 15-16)

Subject

  • History

Topic

  • Historic Environment