LKS2 Topic: Invaders and Settlers Block B: Settlements
Learn about life in Anglo Saxon settlements. Design settlements, make buildings, dye wool, weave
material, research food and cook recipes, play and create board games. Research place names and use
an online simulation of an archaeological dig. Share Anglo-Saxon expert knowledge with visitors to the
classroom.
Block B: Anglo-Saxons
Main outcome: History Other outcomes: English, Science, Design and
Settlements [8 sessions]
Technology, Art and Design
By the end of this block you will
have achieved the following
outcomes:
Session 1: History/Geography
A typical Anglo-Saxon village
Research the basic needs of an
Anglo-Saxon settlement and
design your own.
Session 2: History/Design and
technology
Buildings
Design and make an AngloSaxon building based on
research into the materials and
techniques they used.
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Understand how people’s lives have shaped Britain.
Understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, and cause and
consequence.
 Gain historical perspective by understanding the connections between local and
national history, and between short- and long-term timescales.
 Understand how Britain has been influenced by the wider world.
 Describe and understand key aspects of human geography, including types of
settlement and land use, and the distribution of natural resources.
 Use sketch maps to record features.
 Use maps.
 Understand some aspects of human geography including place names that
describe the settlement.
 Generate, develop and communicate their ideas through talking and drawing.
 Select from and use a wide range of materials, according to their characteristics.
 Evaluate their products against design criteria.
 Identify that animals, including humans, need the right types and amount of
nutrition, and that they cannot make their own food; they get nutrition from
what they eat.
 Construct and interpret a variety of food chains.
 Know about craft workers in history.
 Improve their art and design techniques.
 Select and use a variety of software including internet services, including
collecting, analysing, evaluating and presenting information.
 Identify the audience for and purpose of their role-play, noting and developing
ideas. Understand the value of speaking.
Children will
 List the basic needs that a new settlement should provide.
 Understand how local resources can be used by a settlement.
 Interpret and draw sketch maps.
Children will
 Describe the materials and techniques used by Anglo-Saxons for their buildings.
 Design and make a model of an Anglo-Saxon building.
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LKS2 Topic: Invaders and Settlers Block B: Settlements
Session 3: History/Science
Farming
Investigate the food and
drink of the Anglo-Saxons,
design a week’s menu and
cook some of their recipes
Session 4: History/Art and
design
Clothing
Having found out about the
way the Anglo-Saxons made
their own clothes, try your
hand at dyeing with natural
dyes and weaving some
fabric.
Session 5: History/English
Jobs and Leisure
Research the work and
leisure of the Anglo-Saxon
people, play their board
games and make up your
own.
Session 6:
History/Geography
Local history
Consolidate your
archaeological
understanding of AngloSaxon evidence and place
names. Carry out research
into the meaning of local
places names near you.
Session 7:
History/Computing
Simulation – West Mucking
Take part in an online
simulation of an
archaeological dig of an
Anglo-Saxon website.
Session 8: History/English
Visit to the class AngloSaxon Village
Review all that you have
learned about the AngloSaxon people and then
inform others through whole
class role-play.
Children will
 Describe the food and drink that the Anglo-Saxons grew, raised, hunted and
prepared.
 Explain some of the difficulties Anglo-Saxon farmers experienced.
 Discuss how healthy the diet of Anglo-Saxons was.
Children will
 Describe how Anglo-Saxons made their own clothes.
 Use natural dyes to colour materials.
 Weave some fabric.
Children will
 List and describe the typical jobs carried out by ordinary Anglo-Saxon men, women
and children.
 Describe Anglo-Saxon leisure activities.
 Write rules for and play Anglo-Saxon board games.
Children will
 Explain that most of our knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons is based on archaeological
finds.
 Understand that place names are often very old and can tell us what the area was
like many years ago.
 Research local place names.
Children will
 Describe how archaeologists carry out excavations.
 Use an online simulation to further their understanding of Anglo-Saxon village life.
 Write a report about a simulated archaeological dig.
Children will
 Explore the different daily tasks of the Anglo-Saxon people through research and
role-play.
 Gain confidence in their own knowledge by performing to others in the role of
expert.
 Express daily life in an Iron Age village through whole class role-play and
performance.
The links to the websites and the contents of the web pages associated with such links specified on this list (hereafter collectively referred to as the
‘Links’) have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best
of Hamilton Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and
conditions on the Hamilton Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such
Links may have removed such Links, changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to
verify any of the Links which you wish you use. Hamilton Trust excludes all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of
any Links.
LKS2 Topic: Invaders and Settlers Block B: Settlements
Resources
If possible arrange a trip to the West Stow site, or another Anglo-Saxon site or reconstructed village.
Session 1
Provided: Creating a Settlement: Initial Needs; History of West Stow; Settlement Cards; Map of West
Stow; Possible village sites worksheets.
You will need: Anglo-Saxon Village by Monica Stoppleman, ISBN: 9780713653670 is based on West
Stow (optional).
Session 2
Provided: Anglo-Saxon Buildings prompt; Saxon Churches resource.
You will need: Wood in the form of, e.g. dowelling, lolly sticks, match sticks, pieces of flat balsa wood
(easily cut to make shingles); Corrugated card; Thin card, (use instead of wood for shingles); Glue (not
used by Anglo-Saxons!); Glue guns (adult supervision required); Straw/reed-coloured wool or yarn or
grass stalks/straw or Art Straws; Clay to use as ‘daub’; Pliable twigs to use as ‘wattle’ (hazel or silver
birch if available) or use Art Straws; Thick card or pieces of wood to use as base for each group’s
building; Tools including hacksaw, scissors, ruler.
Session 3
Provided: Farming year simulation; Chance cards; Claim form; Anglo-Saxon names; Anglo-Saxon recipe.
You will need:
Session 4
Provided: Materials images.
You will need: Some white or pale brown wool or linen (or cotton); Ingredients: onions, lichens, red
cabbage, turmeric, blackcurrants, henna, tea bags, bracken, nettle, privet leaves, heather for use as
dyes; Kettle, saucepan & means of heating it; Aprons & disposable plastic gloves; Salt to use as a
fixative; Thick card, scissors, range of balls of fine wool (authentic colours if possible); Metal washers to
use for warp-weighted loom, Jelutong wood 10x10mm or similar, large-eyed needles or plastic
tea/coffee stirrers, hacksaw; Materials, dyes, and looms sheets.
Session 5
Provided: Taefl Board and rules; Fox and Geese board and rules; Nine Men’s Morris board and rules.
You will need: Thin card; Sets of counters of different colours; Dice; Black king chess piece if available;
Laminator.
Session 6
Provided: Place name prompt sheet.
You will need: Local ordnance survey maps & town plans; Visit to local museum (optional); Visit from
archaeologist (optional).
Session 7
Provided: Artifact Pictures.
You will need:
The links to the websites and the contents of the web pages associated with such links specified on this list (hereafter collectively referred to as the
‘Links’) have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best
of Hamilton Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and
conditions on the Hamilton Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such
Links may have removed such Links, changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to
verify any of the Links which you wish you use. Hamilton Trust excludes all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of
any Links.
LKS2 Topic: Invaders and Settlers Block B: Settlements
Session 8
Provided:
You will need: The models, maps and other learning outcomes from previous sessions; Additional card
and paint for props; Possibly material for tunics/ cloaks.
The links to the websites and the contents of the web pages associated with such links specified on this list (hereafter collectively referred to as the
‘Links’) have been checked by Hamilton Trust (being the operating name of the registered charity, William Rowan Hamilton Trust) and to the best
of Hamilton Trust’s knowledge, are correct and accurate at the time of publication. Notwithstanding the foregoing or any other terms and
conditions on the Hamilton Trust website, you acknowledge that Hamilton Trust has no control over such Links and indeed, the owners of such
Links may have removed such Links, changed such Links and/or contents associated with such Links. Therefore, it is your sole responsibility to
verify any of the Links which you wish you use. Hamilton Trust excludes all responsibility and liability for any loss or damage arising from the use of
any Links.