If you’re looking for something new and different for an INSET day, why not invite us in for a history focused session based around the KS2 Anglo Saxons and Vikings requirement? We can offer anything from demonstration activities to curriculum advice or team building exercises with a historical theme. We can turn your classroom into a longhouse! We can throw your teachers in the deep end and have them remember what it’s like to learn new skills from scratch!
Team building examples
- Light a fire with flint and steel, cook a meal
- Produce an Anglo Saxon clay pot
- Make ink from scratch, write a manuscript
- Storytelling: legends from Viking times
- Spin and weave wool to make fabric
- Grind flour, make bread, churn butter
- Learn battle formations and strategies
Curriculum examples
- Society and citizenship through history
- Diversity and equality
- Timelines and the concept of time
- Creative development through art & literature
- Codebreaking and foreign languages
- Research and sources
- Using external visitors
Activity examples
- Drama: myths & legends
- PE: Viking Games & sports
- How do we know about…?
- Archaeological methods
- Make your own museum
- Literacy and numeracy in Viking times
- Trade and economics
- Geography and travel