CURRICULUM SUMMARY –Spring Term (January – March) 2016
SUBJECT: History
YEAR GROUP: Year 5
Week Learning objectives - Students learn:
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VIKINGS
 to relate their own experience to the concept of settlement;
 to recognize that people have been moving between different
areas for a long time, and that some reasons for moving in the
past were the same as those of people alive today.
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Activities (in brief)
On the move
Why do people move away from where they were born?
collect and collate information about their own class community.
SKI CAMP – ALTERNATIVE ACTIVITIES
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 to use the terms ‘invade’ and ‘settle’;
 to place the Viking period in a chronological framework.
4
 about the Viking homelands;
 the places that the Vikings visited;
 where the Vikings settled when they came to Britain.
 to use a range of sources to find out about Viking longships;
 to make inferences about the Viking way of life.
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TEACHER: Luke Jez
Invaders and Settlers
Did the Vikings invade or settle?
Carry out dictionary and word definition work;
Do a time line activity.
Where did they come from and where did they go?
Where did the Vikings come from and where did they settle?
Do map work and investigate place name evidence.
Longships
What is a Viking longship?
Carry out research using a variety of sources;
Record information through drawing.
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 to order Viking raids on Britain chronologically;
 where and when the Vikings raided in Britain;
 that accounts of Viking raids are Anglo-Saxon interpretations
of the events.
When did the Vikings arrive?
When did the Vikings invade and settle in Britain?
Sequence events on a time line.
HALF–TERM
 about the Vikings’ own beliefs;
 about the monastic way of life in Anglo-Saxon times;
 to describe and explain the reasons why the Vikings chose to
raid monasteries.
 what a runic alphabet looked like;
 to make their own interpretation of an illuminated letter.
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 to ask and answer questions from archaeological and picture
evidence;
 to find out about the Vikings’ settlement of Britain.
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 about the way of life of the Vikings;
 to draw on a variety of sources and present appropriately
what they have learned about everyday life in Viking times.
BREAK
The riches of the monasteries
Why did the Vikings raid the monasteries?
Complete a newspaper article.
Illuminated letters and runes
What were the different types of writing in Viking times?
Mark runes into clay;
Write an illuminated letter.
Viking artifacts
What can we find out about the everyday life of Vikings through looking
at artefacts?
Use photographic evidence to investigate artefacts.
Everyday Viking life
What can we learn about the everyday life of Vikings in Britain?
Carry out independent research, using a variety of sources.