King Henry VIII’s Wives – free resources

King Henry VIII’s Wives – free resources

Here I have listed some of the free resources that are available when you are researching King Henry VIII’s Wives.

His 6 wives were Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Kathryn Howard and Katherine Parr.

There is a rhyme to help us remember how their marriages ended –

“Divorced, beheaded, died; divorced, beheaded, survived”.

An Introduction to Henry’s Wives

This is suitable for Primary school children and beyond as an introduction

http://primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/tudors/kings/wives.html

as is this –

https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/discover/history/monarchy/wives-of-henry-viii/

A Crossword and a Word Search from Primary Resources

– with answers

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/history/pdfs/Henry VIII_xwd.

pdf

PowerPoints from Primary resources

https://www.primaryresources.co.uk/history/history3.htm – there are a few here

Another introduction to the wives

– aimed at secondary but accessible for older primary

https://www.historyonthenet.com/the-tudors-the-six-wives-of-henry-viii

Horrible Histories song about the wives

– with a transcript on this page

https://multimedia-english.com/videos/esl/henry-viii-song-horrible-histories-1764

Another amusing song to help you remember the wives

– perhaps check this out before sharing with children.

Personally I love it!

It is sung to the tune of Money, Money, Money by ABBA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EGzHsye71c&feature=youtu.be

More about the six wives

– small pictures with links to much more information

https://tudorhistory.org/wives/

All on one page –

https://www.historyhit.com/the-6-wives-of-henry-viii-in-order/

Nice clear pictures on this one –

https://allthatsinteresting.com/henry-viiis-wives

Information for teachers/parents – with a word search and a matching activity

– aimed at teachers for KS2 children

http://www.englishcenter.dk/Files/Billeder/PDF/pdfoxford/Oxford Bookworms/newobwhenrysixwiveswork.pdf

Here is a word search of the six wives – you will know their names by now.

Choose the 20 by 20 grid. (Well you can choose any size but the bigger one I more likely to get all of the six wives in.)

The names are all written left to right or going downwards.

How To Play

• Choose the size of the grid that you want to play.  The larger the grid the longer the words are that can be included and more words are likely to be included.
• Look for the words. All the words can be read left to right and top to bottom.
• Click or touch the first letter of the word and the last letter of the word.
• The words will then be highlighted in different colours.
• Find all the words and you will win the game.

BTW - if you have words in the grid that you were not expecting - click on the page title to refresh.  If you just have https://tutor-your-child.com showing then the words will be drawn from all of the wordsearches on the website.

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