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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
How have children’s lives changed?
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Teacher video: What changed in Britain after the Anglo-Saxon invasion?
Lessons
Lesson 1: Who were the Anglo-Saxons and the Scots?
Lesson 2: What did Anglo-Saxon settlements look like?
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
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Key knowledge
- To know that significant
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Key vocabulary
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Knowledge organiser – History Y4: What changed in Britain after the Anglo-Saxon invasion?
Aimed at pupils, a double page document that gives key facts and definitions from the unit 'What changed in Britain…
Vocabulary display – History Y4: What changed in Britain after the Anglo-Saxon invasion?
A display version of the key vocabulary from the 'How hard was it to invade and settle in Britain?' unit.
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