Primary Theme: Anglo-saxons
Archived unit: British history 3: How hard was it to invade & settle in Britain?
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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Explain how the Britons felt when the Romans left Britain.
- Suggest reasons for the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.
- Name the key features of Anglo-Saxon settlements.
- Identify changes and continuities in settlements from prehistoric Britain.
- Make inferences about artefacts.
- Describe how Anglo-Saxon beliefs changed.
- Explain how missionaries spread Christianity.
- Explain the threat the Vikings posed to the Anglo-Saxons.
- Identify the qualities needed to be a monarch in 1066.
Suggested prior learning
British history 2: Why did the Romans invade and settle in Britain?
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and the Scots?
Lesson 2: How did the Anglo-Saxons settle in Britain?
Lesson 3: What does Sutton Hoo tell us about Anglo-Saxon life?
Lesson 4: How did Christianity arrive in Britain?
Lesson 5: Was King Alfred really great?
Lesson 6: How did Anglo-Saxon rule end?
Key skills
- Sequencing events on a timeline, referring to times studied in KS1 to see where these fit in.
- Understanding that history is divided into periods of history e.g. ancient times, middle ages and modern.
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Key knowledge
- To know that significant archaeological findings are those which change how we see the past.
- To know that ‘historically significant’ events are those which changed many people’s lives and had an impact for many years to come.
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Key vocabulary
Angles
Britons
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