Infinity Academies Trust
History
Invasion
Vocabulary: Conquer, Invasion, Pagan, Northumbria, Mercia, Wessex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, East Anglia, Archaeologist, Excavated, Burial, Raid, Monastery, Monk, Danelaw, Alfred the Great, Guthrum, Heir, Successor, King Athelstan, Norman, Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror |
In the Invasion project, we will explore the effects of the Roman withdrawal and the chronology and geography of subsequent invasions. Next we will study the Anglo-Saxons and Vikings in detail, examining their reasons for invading, their settlements and their everyday life. We will also look at monasteries and why they were important before examining the Anglo-Saxon legacy.
Next we will consider how we know about life in this period and investigate the Sutton Hoo ship burial. Before learning about Athelstan, an Anglo-Saxon king, and what happened after his death, before ending the project by learning about the Norman invasion of 1066.
BBC were asking the public to name the reconstruction of the ship found at Sutton Hoo, so as a class we gathered ideas, merged them together, voted and sent off our suggestion of the Sutton Saxonia Success!
As part of the innovate stage of the project the children will be presented with the following information and will work together as real-life historians to investigate the evidence and present their findings!
In lessons, we have created a human timeline to help us understand the chronology of the Roman and Anglo-Saxon period and then acted out the invasion of Britain by the Saxons, Angles and Jutes. they happened)!
Year 4 enjoyed their history trip to Lincoln Castle where they got to become archaeologists and excavate some Anglo-Saxon artefacts! After our excavation, we had to convince our museum curator to put our artefacts on display in his museum. We then had a look at some Anglo-Saxon skeletons that had been dug up and were using the grave good found with them to help us work out if they were male or female bodies.
In this lesson, we became archaeologists!! We learnt about the Anglo-Saxon burial site Sutton Hoo and then excavated our own burial site to find some artefacts. As a class, we discussed what the artefacts tells us about life during the Anglo-Saxon times!
