Reasoning behind my work

1 
The things that inspired my final solutions and choices are:

A subject that could be linked through three documents to tell a story. I feel this is important as it allows a fuller picture of a period in time and a different viewpoint.

A subject or person that children may not have heard of before instead of regurgitating the obvious historical events. Important because re-running the same things can become boring and limiting for children's knowledge.

Allow children to see a different side of WW1 period, as views are very blinkered towards fighting in the physical sense. Learning about espionage gives a real sense of what else happens in war.


2 
I feel that my final designs for this brief are effective because I have kept the pages relatively simple. Included interesting questions and activities for the children to research and complete. I have given them opportunity to use their historical enquiry skills to put the pieces of each worksheet together like a jigsaw. I believe they will want to find out more about Mata Hari after this, because I haven't given them an ending to her story. I have done this on purpose so that they want to do more research on her. 
I have used bright but not off putting colours and text boxes to make the layout more useable, the brush and line illustrations add interest and help tell her story.

3 
Going from the verbal feedback I have received from some of the 9-10yr olds in my daughter's year group. They like the colours and the activities/questions of the worksheets. I hope that it will be well received from other Key stage 2/3 audiences.