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Searching for the Saxons
Description

Investigate the everyday lives of the first Anglo-Saxon peoples and learn how archaeology is used to build a picture of the past.

The facilitated Searching for the Saxons (Anglo-Saxon Life) workshop uses the extensive museum collection of real and replica artefacts to provide pupils with the opportunity to handle and investigate archaeological evidence to learn about everyday life in the past This workshop focuses on the early Anglo-Saxon period (5th to 7th centuries CE) before the widespread availability of written sources.

Pupils will have the opportunity to 

  • To understand how artefacts and archaeology can inform us about life before written sources (pagan Anglo-Saxon England) and how our knowledge of the past comes from a range of sources.
  • To investigate objects or artefacts, asking and answering questions, and understand how they can be used to make inferences about people’s lives in the past.
  • To learn about everyday life in early Anglo-Saxon period and identify similarities / differences between ways of life then and now.
  • To understand the use of different materials in the past, interpretation of artefacts and survival in the archaeological / historical record
  • To be introduced to the Anglo-Saxon impact on today and their locality
Location Northampton Museum and Art Gallery
Age Key Stage 2
Focus

History, Science, Design / Technology

 
Length 1 hour
Capacity 35 children plus supervising adults
KS2 Links Pupils should be taught about:
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons; local history.
know and understand the history of these islands as a coherent, chronological narrative, from the earliest times to the present day: how people’s lives have shaped this nation and how Britain has influenced and been influenced by the wider world
know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world.
understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance, and use them to make connections, draw contrasts, analyse trends,
understand the methods of historical (archaeological) enquiry, including how evidence is used rigorously to make historical claims, and discern how and why contrasting arguments and interpretations of the past have been constructed.
Supervision We ask schools to follow NSPCC guidelines as outlined in our terms and conditions.
Resources Background notes and details of the workshop are sent to schools on booking along with information about the museum's gallery displays relating to the period and suggestions for pupil activities.
Extension - we also offer a hands-on workshop (60 minutes) for pupils to investigate Anglo Saxon art - with pupils able to design and make Anglo-saxon style brooches to take home with them.
Please add details in the Special Requirements box of the online booking form if you would like to book an extension workshop.
Cost £150 (Extension workshop charged at £100)

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