National curriculum content
- Inspire children’s curiosity to know more about the past
- Be taught about a study of an aspect or theme in British history that extends their chronological knowledge beyond 1066
Lesson objectives
- Who were the Vikings and where did they come from?
- Understand why so many Vikings settled in Britain
- Explain the importance of the Lindisfarne raid
- Explore Viking warriors
- Write a Viking saga
What we want children to know
- What happened on Lindisfarne on June 8th 793 ad
- How the Anglo-Saxons reacted to this Viking raid
- Why the Vikings left home
- Vikings were traders as well as raiders
- Where Vikings settled in Britain
- That the Vikings themselves left very little written evidence
- That evidence is usually one-sided
- Sagas are not necessarily true in every detail
What skills we want children to develop
- Research, select, organise and communicate findings
- Understand how knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources
- Explore the significance of a key individual
- Understand how contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Vocabulary
Anglo-Saxon chronicle, Danelaw, hoard, longship, monastery, monk, Norse, Saga, Scandinavia, Vinland