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Planning the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
Pupil outcome: I can make a plan for writing a diary entry as Florence Nightingale. Key learning points: - Perspective is the way someone thinks, feels or sees something. - Florence Nightingale went to the Crimean War to help the wounded...
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Writing the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
Pupil outcome: I can write the first entry of Florence Nightingale's diary. Key learning points: - Perspective is the way someone thinks, feels or sees something. - Writing in a diary will mostly be in the past tense. - A diary entry...
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Planning to write a section about Mary Seacole in a non-chronological report
Pupil outcome: I can make a plan for writing about Mary Seacole in a non-chronological report. Key learning points: - A non-chronological report is a type of non-fiction text. - A non-chronological report provides information on a...
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Delivering a presentation of a report on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
Pupil outcome: I can present a non-chronological report on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Key learning points: - Presentations can be spoken aloud to an audience. - Presentations are effective ways to share information. -...
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Identifying the features of a diary entry
Pupil outcome: I can identify the different features of a diary entry. Key learning points: - A diary is a personal book where you write about your thoughts, feelings and experiences. - Features are distinctive qualities or...
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Planning the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
Pupil outcome: I can make a plan for writing a diary entry as Florence Nightingale. Key learning points: - Writing in a diary will mostly be in the past tense. - Past tense tells the reader something happened before now. - Notes are used...
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Exploring and engaging with themes in 'Coming To England’
Pupil outcome: I can identify and reflect on the key themes in 'Coming to England'. Key learning points: - ‘Coming to England’ highlights Floella’s resilience and advocacy against racism. - The text has themes of determination,...
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Generating knowledge of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole for a report
Pupil outcome: I can generate knowledge of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole to use in a non-chronological report. Key learning points: - Florence Nightingale was a nurse during the Crimean War. - Florence Nightingale helped to train...
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Writing the conclusion of a report on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole
Pupil outcome: I can write the conclusion of a non-chronological report on Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole. Key learning points: - Comparing means looking at how things are the same and contrasting means looking at how things are...
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Writing a section about Florence Nightingale in a non chronological report
Pupil outcome: I can write a section about Florence Nightingale in a non-chronological report. Key learning points: - A viewpoint is how you see or feel about something. - Viewpoint fronted adverbials are sentence starters that share the...
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Writing the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary
Pupil outcome: I can write the second entry of Florence Nightingale's diary. Key learning points: - A diary is an informal piece of writing. - One of the features of informal writing is contracted words. - When writing informally, we use...
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Nightingale's Diagram
How Florence Nightingale's design of the pie chart saved millions of lives by demonstrating statistics in a simple, visual way. Maths - Statistics And Probability A Twig Math Film. Reinforce and extend the learning required by the...
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Civil War Hospitals
The medical hospitals established during the American Civil War helped save thousands of lives – and change how the US military cares for troops to this day.
60 Second Histories
Florence Nightingale - after the Crimea
In the final clip of this series, Florence describes her life after the Crimea War, the report she published on her experiences there and the establishment of St Thomas' Hospital and the Nightingale Training school for nurses.
60 Second Histories
Florence Nightingale - training
In part 2 of this series, Florence explains what training she undertook to become a nurse and the first hospital she worked in.
60 Second Histories
Florence Nightingale - the early years
Part 1 of a series on Florence Nightingale where she describes her early life, and what she felt it was like to be born in an age dominated by men.
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Florence Nightingale - Scutari Hospital part 1
In part 4 of this series, Florence talks about her arrival at Scutari Hospital and her dismay at the sanitary conditions there..
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Florence Nightingale - the Crimea
In part 3 of this series, Florence explains why she recruited a team of nurses and travelling out to the Crimea.
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Mary Seacole; travels to Crimea
In part 4 of this series Mary describes her travel to and arrival in the Crimea.
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Five Facts - Florence Nightingale
This video explores five fun facts about Florence Nightingale.
Red Rock Films
Women's History Activator: Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing
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Florence Nightingale - Scutari Hospital part 2
In part 5 of this series, Florence describes the time she spent at Scutari hospital and the practices she introduced there.
British Library
British Library: Gender in 19th Century Britain
Kathryn Hughes explores the repressive and often contradictory expectations of women in middle-class Victorian society while examining how women such as Florence Nightingale and Elizabeth Barrett-Browning managed to challenge those...