Sutton Hoo

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Invaders and Settlers: Anglo-Saxons Kings and Laws

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Objectives

History

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.

English

Discuss and record ideas.
Compose and rehearse sentences orally.
Organise paragraphs around a theme.
In non-narrative material, use simple organisational devices, e.g. headings & sub-headings.

Lesson Planning

Children will explain the importance of the Sutton Hoo excavations and learn what the finds tell us about the people of the time.

Teaching Outcomes:

To appreciate the importance of Sutton Hoo and discuss what the items buried in the grave tell us about the person.
To create a captioned diagram and description of a Sutton Hoo burial artefact, OR to write a newspaper article about the Sutton Hoo site and visitor centre.

Children will:

Explain the importance of the Sutton Hoo excavations.
Describe some of the Sutton Hoo finds.
Explain what the finds tell us about the person who was buried there.

Planning

Provided Resources

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You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

Weblinks

The Sutton Hoo finds from artsandculture.google.com
Descriptions of the finds in each mound from wikipedia.org
The discoveries at the Sutton Hoo site from khanacademy.org
Archaeology activity from classroommultimedia.com