Mayflower 400: Legend and Legacy: The Words we choose to use

This glossary of words and terms connected to the Mayflower story supports teachers wanting to explore this complex and sensitive history with their class.

You can download this PDF resource to use independently and with your class, to support your teaching of the history and events connected to the voyage of the Mayflower in 1620.

Key Stages:: Key Stage 2,; Key Stage 3,; Key Stage 4

Curriculum:: History

Topic:: Mayflower

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Part of the Mayflower 400 commemorations

School visits

Mayflower: Legend & Legacy: Schools Workshop

Discover the story of the Mayflower exploring the people and events that led to the historic voyage across the Atlantic and its impact and legacy today.

Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada

Step into Elizabethan England, summer 1588. Plymouth is in a state of busy preparation, arming itself against the feared Spanish Armada. Put on your detective hat as we explore what role Sir Francis Drake played in defending Plymouth from the Armada and consider how he should be remembered.

SENsational workshops

Our SENsational workshops for students with special educational needs and disabilities, including those with profound and multiple disabilities and ASC, are open to visits from a range of educational settings.

Museum Gallery Archive

Part of the Mayflower 400 commemorations

School visits

Mayflower: Legend & Legacy: Schools Workshop

Sir Francis Drake and the Spanish Armada

SENsational workshops