Lesson video

Hello, and welcome to today's lesson about the reformation.

It's Mrs. Goullee again, ready to teach you more about Morebath Church.

I hope you've been enjoying the topics so far and that you're ready to find out what happens next to your character and the people of Morebath.

For today's lesson, all you'll need is a pen and paper or something to write on or with.

If you're able to please take a moment now to clear away any distractions.

If you can, turn off the notifications on any apps you've got running, and find a quiet place where you can complete this lesson.

So once you're ready and I've got my PowerPoint open, we'll begin.

So now I've got my PowerPoint open.

I've minimised my webcam.

So it's easier to focus on what is on my slides.

And my first slide, like the last couple of lessons has our big question on it.

In what ways did the reformation matter to ordinary people? Because that is the big question we are trying to answer.

We are kind of, we are trying to find out how this time of the reformation, this time when England went from Catholic to Protestant and back.

And we're trying to find out how that affected ordinary people.

How it affected their lives.

And we trying to answer that question.

Aren't we? By focusing in on one ordinary church: Morebath Church.

And we're focusing in on the story about one ordinary Church.

And the stories of those ordinary people who lived in that village, and we went to that church.

And we're focusing in on how this reformation, how this time of religious change effected them.

So far we found out, what Morebath church was like at the beginning.

How it was a beautiful decorated church with lots of statues and lots of candles.

And we found out how the villagers worked together as a community to raise money, to decorate their church.

In our last lesson, we found out about King Edward's orders.

And how his orders completely changed Morebath church.

So if you think back in our lesson, I wonder if you can figure out, which of these pictures shows Morebath Church in Edwards reign.

Which of these two pictures shows Morebath Church after Edward had made all his changes.

So just press pause on the video and have a think.

And once you've got the answer, press play.

It is of course the picture on the right.

Because Edward made lots of changes to Morebath Church.

He forced them to get rid of a lot of their special objects.

Because actually the picture on the left, shows what Morebath Church was like at the start.

Doesn't it? We've got all those beautiful statues there.

The statue of Saint Sidwell, Saint George and Saint Mary.

We've got lots of lovely candles lit in front of the statues.

We've got that beautiful giant crucifix hanging from the ceiling.

The one that William Popple carved by himself.

Okay.

When I say it was how Morebath Church was like at the start, it does show the few little changes that Henry made to the church.

That's why we've got the Bibles at the front part.

Those two books at the front of the alter, that table.

But overall Henry didn't change too much to Morebath Church.

Edward though changed it greatly, didn't he? After Edward's reign Morebath Church was left bare.

The crucifix that William Popple had carved was gone.

All of the beautiful statues were gone.

Some like Saint Sidwell were destroyed.

Much to Anna Nicole's distress.

And on top of that, the candles had gone as well.

And they had even been forced to buy some new Protestant things.

They'd been forced by a locked box to raise money for the poor.

And they had been forced to buy the new Protestant Prayer Book.

Remember the Protestant Prayer Book that made the villagers join in rebellion.

And so Edward's reign had completely changed, what Morebath Church was like.

Their beautiful decorations had gone.

And their way of life was completely, or I say completely was massively changed.

But remember, remember the villagers of Morebath was sneaky.

They had hidden two of their most special objects: the statue of Saint Mary, and their new vestments to keep them safe.

Remember those vestments.

The special fancy robes for Sir Christopher to wear.

There's a picture to show what they might have looked like on the slide.

Remember their villagers had spent 20 years saving up for them.

And then they got them just as Edward became king, and they had to put them in hiding again.

But the people of Morebath were very clever.

They hid a few of their most special things.

They knew they had to destroy some of them or Edwards men would get suspicious.

They put some special objects in hiding.

And then in 1553, they got some very important news.

That was a new Monarch.

King Edward the sick had died, aged just 15.

And his older sister Mary, His oldest sister Mary, the daughter of Henry VIII and his first wife, Catherine of Aragon had now become Queen Mary I.

So King Edward had died and his oldest sister Mary, who you can see on the side, now became Queen Mary I.

And Mary was a strict Catholic.

And this would be music to the ears of the villagers of Morebath.

I can imagine your character right now.

I can imagine they'd have been very excited when they got this news.

And even more excited, even more joyful, even more delighted, when they heard what Mary's orders were for the church.

Listen up to Mary's orders.

One, the church is now Catholic, not Protestant.

Two, the Pope not the Queen is the head of the church again.

Three, images and statues are allowed in the church again.

Four churches can have as many candles as they would like.

Five, you can raise money for your church and statues again.

Wow! I bet the villagers of Morebath were excited.

Statues back, candles back, raising money for their church again.

So how would these orders affect Morebath Church.

What will they be able to get back? Is there anything they won't be able to get back? At least not straight away.

So just pause the video, and have a think about those two questions.

Second one, slightly trickier.

So why, if you're not sure, what will Morebath get back? Is there anything they won't be able to get back? Well, I'm sure you figured out that statues and candles can come back.

And they can also have a crucifix again.

But misses the answer to the trickier question.

They can actually only get some of their special objects back.

Because some of the statues and the crucifix were destroyed an Edward's reign.

Which is why, even though they were allowed to get back all their statues and there crucifix and all their candles, they can't get them all back, straight away.

After all the statue of Saint Sidwell was destroyed.

The beautiful golden crucifix carved by William Popple , that was destroyed.

The villagers of Morebath can't just get them back straight away.

I mean, William Popple spend years carving that crucifix.

So not everything can come back straight away.

And that is why for now, for now only, I've kept this picture up.

The picture of how Morebath church looked in Edward's reign.

Because we don't yet know, do we? Which objects come back and which objects can't come back.

All we know is that we're allowed to have everything back, but we can't get everything back at once.

And I'm afraid I've got a little bit more bad news as well.

People Morebath rushed soon as they heard the news to get their statue of Saint Mary and their vestments out of hiding.

However, the vestments went missing whilst being passed around the village.

Try as they might, the villagers simply couldn't find Sir Christopher's vestment.

So the villagers of Morebath had spent 20 years saving up for these vestments, these special robes for Sir Christopher, 20 years.

Then as soon as they got them, Edward gave the orders, but they couldn't have them.

And so they had to put them into hiding.

And they hit them for five years.

But then when Edward died and Mary was queen and they were allowed to have their vestments back, they couldn't find them anywhere.

They couldn't find them at all.

And I'm not joking about this.

This is actually what happened.

The people literally couldn't find their vestments.

What a palaver.

Wow! Probably more than a palaver.

I have a feeling that Sir Christopher would have been devastated.

Oh, if not devastated, at least very disappointed.

He was really looking forward to wearing these.

I can imagine Thomas Norman and the four men, must've been very frustrated as well.

It's been spent 20 years helping the church save up for these one, well, they're missing.

Before we find out anymore, what do we know so far? What changed in Mary's reign? Choose the two correct answers.

So, just press pause, and figure out which of these two answers are correct.

What changed in Mary's reign? Great work.

Option one and option three are the two correct answers.

The church became Catholic again.

It didn't stay Protestant because Mary was a Catholic.

And so she made the church Catholic again.

And option three is correct.

Because more about, could only get back some of their special objects.

Not all of them, because even though they were allowed to have all of their objects back, some of them like the crucifix, like Saint Sidwell had been destroyed.

So with that in mind, All I'd like you to do is record what we have learned so far.

And I'd like you to finish this sentence.

Queen Mary made the church Catholic or Protestant.

Pick which of those is correct.

And Morebath Church, Did they get back everything? Did they get back some of their special things? Just what do we know so far? I know we don't know everything.

Let's just pause and write down what we know so far.

So pause the video and finish that sentence.

Great work.

As I'm sure you've written down, Queen Mary made the church Catholic and Morebath Church got back some of their special objects.

But we really need to find out exactly what came back.

Don't we? We still don't really know.

How far did Morebath Church return to how it had been before.

Did it return completely to how it was before? Probably not, but how far did Morebath Church return to how it had been before.

How far did it go back to what it had been before Edward was king? Well, that's what we're going to think about now.

How far did Morebath Church go back to how it had been before.

To how it had been at the beginning.

To how it had been with all the beautiful decorations, and the candles, and all of the villagers raising money for their church.

Well, you are now going to find out exactly how Morebath church changed in Mary's reign.

You are going to find out what was the same as before, and what was different to before.

And as you read the information, you were just going to answer those two questions.

What was the same as before? What was the same as it had been before Edward was king? What was the same as it has been in the beginning of our story of Morebath.

And two, what was different to before? What was different to how it have been before Edward was King? What was different to how Morebath Church had been at the start of our story? And just to illustrate what I mean with a couple of examples.

So if read that the statue of Saint Mary came back and the statue of Saint George came back, well, that's the same as before, isn't it? Because the people are Morebath had those statues at the start, until Edward made them get rid of them.

So I put that in my, the same as before.

That would answer the question, What was the same as before? I would read something about things being different, like for example, the statue of Saint Sidwell not being there or the Crucifix perhaps not being there.

Then I'd put that in my, what was different to before? Then, I would use that to answer my, what was different to before, question.

Because that would be different to how it had been at the start.

Because there had been a statue of Saint Sidwell, but now that had been destroyed.

And for each question you should aim to write about three to five bullet points.

So aim is three points, and if you're able to get more, that's great.

So you're going to ask those two questions.

What was the same as before? What was the same as it always been? And what was different to before? What was different to how it had always been? So now you know what you need to do.

You're going to pause the video.

You're going to read the slides on the next page, and answer those two questions.

Pause the video now, go on to the slide on the next page and answer the two questions.

Fantastic work, everyone.

Well done.

Welcome back.

Time to go through the answers.

Now I'm sure you've got most of these points ready.

So I'm just going to go through them.

So make sure that we're all on the same page.

Now it might be that I've worded things slightly differently to how you've worded them, andd that's absolutely fine.

You've still, obviously you got the point right, you've just written it in a slightly different way.

It might be though, that I thought of some things that you haven't got.

If that's the case, just pause the video, and write anything that you have missed out.

So, as I go through the answer, have your answers in front of you.

Check that you've include what I've mentioned.

If you've realised you've missed something, don't worry about it, just press pause and add it in.

So what was the same as before? Our first question.

First, the statues of Saint Mary and Saint George came back.

Villagers got some of their statues back.

Two, the candles came back.

They could have as many candles as they wanted.

Next one, the rosary beads were allowed again.

The villagers could pray with rosary beads once more.

Next, the Protestant Prayer Book, the English Bible, and the locked box had gone.

Now, remember this isn't about Morebath Church, getting back objects that it had at the start.

But this is about them getting rid of the things that Edward had and also Henry had made them buy.

So it's still the church going back to how it had been before, because they got rid of the Protestant things, they'd been forced to buy.

Protestant things, which they didn't have at the start.

They could also decorate the church like before.

I know that's not an object they've got back, but it's an activity they can do again.

And certainly Marjorie Lake and the other young women, and John Timon and the other young men, were certainly happy that they could go around and raise money to decorate the church, like they had before.

The Ales were back as well.

These village feasts where the villagers drank Ales together.

And then John Timon was particularly pleased, because he didn't rather enjoy organising these festivals, and encouraging the villagers to drink their Ale.

What was different to before then? Some statues were still missing like Saint Sidwell.

That one must've been particularly hard for Ellen and Nicole.

She'd loved Saint Sidwell, hadn't she? She prayed to her.

She gave her her wedding ring to make into a little tiny shoe for Saint Sidwell's foot.

Think she found it hard that Saint Sidwell wasn't there.

Maybe she could have hoped that there might be a statue of Saint Sidwell again.

Next point.

There was now a simple crucifix rather than a proper one.

That was a simple plain makeshift crucifix, rather than the beautiful golden decorated one.

And the villagers had decided that is best to have a simple crucifix put up quickly, whilst they paid William Popple to carve a better one.

So William Popple was probably kept very busy carving his nice, new, golden crucifix.

Next, the vestments were missing.

I thought that really frustrated Sir Christopher.

And lastly, most stores never returned.

Remember these stores were pots of money, that had been used to raise money for the candles.

And even though they just could get their candles back and their statues back, most of the stores didn't return.

It must have a changed and so massive that these organisations didn't come back straight away.

What changed Mary's reign then? Now we know the full picture.

I wonder if you can figure out which of these objects do we need to get rid of? Which objects did they get back? And what objects were still missing.

So just pause the video and see if you can figure out, which objects are going to go and which are coming back.

Well, they got rid of, I'm sure you figured it out, the Protestant Books.

They got rid of the Protestant Prayer Book and the English Bible.

They also got rid of the locked box to raise money for the poor.

And this get ready for it.

This is what Morebath Church look liked in Mary's reign.

Is that any bit different? Isn't it? I mean, they've got back their statue of Saint Mary and Saint George.

They might have got back some other some statues too.

We don't know.

But we do know they definitely didn't get back Saint Sidwell, because that had been destroyed and Edwards reign.

They got back their candles as well.

They now have candles in front of the statues like before.

They also got back their altar clothes, that's the sort of cloth that's over the altar or the table at the front of the church.

And they got a new, simple makeshift crucifix.

I think you'll agree with me that it definitely doesn't look quite as good as the one that William Popple carved.

And certainly simple, there's no beautiful gold decoration.

But I guess at least it was something.

Maybe Morebath Church was on the way to being like it had before.

So, how then did Mary's reign affect Morebath Church? Which of these statements do you agree with? Morebath Church was exactly the same as before.

It was as though things have never changed.

Morebath Church was mostly the same as before, even though some things were different.

Morebath Church was returning to how it was before, even though it was still a long way off.

I'd like you pause the video now, and decide which of those you agree with? Well, you've probably not picked number one.

Because number one, isn't right.

Is it? Morebath Church was not exactly the same as before.

Things were different.

They were missing some of their precious objects.

They didn't have all their statues, and they didn't have their golden crucifix.

So it wasn't exactly the same.

And then I think you could picked either two, and you'd have been right.

It's just quite depends on your opinion.

I mean, Morebath Church was mostly the same as before.

And even though some things were different, they'd got back their statues and their candles.

Though they hadn't got back all of their statutes.

Or you might have said, Morebath Church before turning to how it was before, even though still a long way off.

I guess if you've picked that one, you've just got a slightly different way of feeling what we've learnt in our lesson today.

You're kind of thinking, well, actually I wouldn't say mostly the same as at before, but you think it's returning to how it was? It's going back there.

So, now we've talked about these statements.

I would like you to write down the statement you agree with.

And then give an example or two back it up.

Let me just show you what I mean.

If you agree with the second one, Morebath Church was mostly the same as before, even though some things were different.

Then you would write that down.

And then you'd write, for example, like we can see at the bottom, for example, they got back their statue of Saint Mary and Saint George, their candles and rosary beads.

However, they were still missing there statue of Saint Sidwell, and that golden crucifix carved by William Popple.

So you can see that I've given an example to show how things were loosely the same, and to also show how some things were different.

I've shown what was the same and what was different in my examples.

So, pause the video now, this is the last thing I'm going to ask you to do today.

Write down the statement you agree with, or if you want, feel free to write your own or tweak or change the one that's there, and then give an example or two to back it up.

Oh, fantastic work, everyone.

So we can see currently, that in Mary's reign things did start to go back to how they were before.

And the villagers were very happy about this.

Sir Christopher even wrote in his book about how wonderful Mary's reign was.

He wrote how wonderful it was.

So many things were restored and brought back to the church.

But then as he was writing those words, things were about to change again.

Things were about to change again.

To be continued.

Because next lesson, we will find out how things changed once more.

In order to answer our question.

In what ways did the reformation matter to ordinary people? Wow, that brings us to the end of today's lesson.

Well done for all your hard work.

You really have done a fantastic job.

If you're able to, please take a picture of your work from today and ask your parent or carer to share it with your teacher, so they can see all the brilliant work you have done.

Please also complete the quiz at the end of the lesson, to show off all that you have learned.

Well, all that's left for me to say is, well done, again.

Take care.

Thank you.

And I look forward to my next history lesson with you.

Where we'll find out the final part of our story of Morebath Church.