3 minutes Pupils to read page about Elizabeth's early life. 3 minutes They then complete a quiz to check their understanding. 4 minutes Pupils move on to an explanation about why Elizabeth had portraits of herself painted at intervals during her reign. They are also told why the portraits had to impress her subjects. 6 minutes Eight portraits of Elizabeth, painted at intervals during her reign, are displayed.
Pupils have to match the captions underneath the paintings to the correct picture.
The next page shows the paintings with the correct captions underneath. The next page gives a description of what Elizabeth really looked like and an artists impression of what she may have looked like. 4 minutes Pupils are now shown an enlarged version of the Armada Portrait. A multi choice quiz is used to help pupils work out what the picture is saying. Some of the answers are intentionally obvious to allow all pupils to succeed.