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KS1-3 (age 3-13 years) | KS4 (age 14-16 years) | KS5 (age 16-18 years)

The resources listed on this website are available for inclusion within your teaching, LA websites, school websites or learning platforms and other external services with reference to the author and a link to the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. For further information see the permitted use section.

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Key Stage 1-3 

Download 'KS1/2: Remembrance (Powerpoint)'

KS1 & 2:This resource pack is designed to assist teachers to introduce specific themes into the classroom. Although primarily aimed at the History curriculum, it can also be used to support literacy and aspects of Citizenship, PSHE and RE. Geography and Maths activities are included.

Download 'KS3: Trusting Source Material Resource Pack'

KS3: Trusting Source Material Resource Pack.
Contains a PowerPoint and sets of images, films, and audio to guide students through questions about trusting and analysing sources.
Type: Resource Pack
Subject: History
Author: Dr Stuart Lee, University of Oxford

Key Stage 4

Download 'How Poetry Works'

This course pack brings together resources from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Great War Archive websites produced by the University of Oxford for teachers of Key Stage 3 English.
Type: Resource Pack
Subject: English Literature
Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford

Download 'Imperial Troops Resource Pack'

This resource pack brings together materials on some of the Imperial Troops that served in the First World War.
Type: Resource Pack
Subject: History
Author: Huw Jones, History Faculty, Magdalen College School, Oxford

Download 'Women and the First World War resource pack'

Contains a PowerPoint and sets of images and films to explore the role of women in the First World War, as well as the feminist movement.
Type: Resource Pack
Subject: History
Author: Kate Lindsay, University of Oxford

Watch the 'Women and the First World War' Film

British propaganda film of the contribution of some women to the war effort, contrasted with the extravagance of others, 1918.

Key Stage 5

View War Poets Mindmap

This mindmap helps students explore the relationships between the poets, how they were connected, and who they knew.
Type: Mind Map
Subject: English
Author: Stuart Lee, University of Oxford

Download 'Who's to Blame? (Powerpoint)'

ntroduces pupils to various sources that explore the theme of culpability. Suitable for A2 English Literature Synoptic (AQA Unit 6).
Type: PowerPoint
Subject: A2 English Literature Synoptic
Author: Hannah Spencer, Bradfield College

Download 'Perhaps (Powerpoint)'

Focusing on the poems 'Perhaps' by Vera Brittain and 'Lamplight' by Mary West-Cannon Cannan, this PowerPoint explores the theme of loss in First World War Literature. Suitable for A2 English Literature Synoptic (AQA Unit 6).
Type: PowerPoint
Subject: A2 English Literature Synoptic
Author: Hannah Spencer, Bradfield College

Download 'Welsh Poet Hedd Wynn (Powerpoint)'

These resources provides context for those studying the craft of the film-maker (for the film 'Hedd Wyn' - a set work for study at the Welsh Second Language exam at AS level). Contains teacher powerpoints, notes, images, essay questions, and student workbooks.
Type: Resource Pack
Subject: Welsh Second Language
Author: Alun Edwards, University of Oxford

Download 'Exploring Polish Literature Resource Pack'

Aimed at A Level English Language & Literature teachers looking for alternative ways to explore how language can be shaped by the technology we use and how different modes can influence the power of a message under communication. By using Polish World War One literature and history as a focal point, this pack includes a set of student worksheets, teachers' notes, open source images, and archival postcards. More info