Roman Britain

Roman Britain is a familiar topic on the primary curriculum and links chronologically to the Stone Age to Iron Age topic as well as the Saxons and Vikings.  The focus is upon invasion, conquest, rebellion and Romanisation.

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  • Questions and questioning exemplar: Roman Britain

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    Using key questionsThe Romans in Britain was a lesson introducing Roman Britain to a Year 5 class.We started with the key question: 'What was Roman Britain like?' We had prepared group sets of pictures of aspects of Roman Britain. The images showed a range of scenes, e.g. cooking in a...

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  • Roman Baths

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    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. The account tells how we recreated a Roman bath house in the Reception/Year 1 classroom during a ten-week unit learning about...

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  • Roman market (KS1 or KS2)

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    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. Shopping in a Roman townPart of 'The way of life of people who lived in the more distant past in Britain'....

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  • Podcast: Roman Britain

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    An HA Podcasted History of Roman Britain featuring Guy de la Bédoyère.

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  • The End of Roman Britain

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    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. Writing poems in the KS2 literacy hour about the Saxon destruction of a Roman town. (These resources are attached below) Children...

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  • The Roman army: Spy!

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    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. The year 5/6 class visited Julius Caesar's camp before he invaded Britain in 55 BC. I wanted the children to get...

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  • Caesar lands

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    Please note: this lesson was produced as part of the Nuffield Primary History project (1991-2009) and pre-dates the 2014 National Curriculum. It is part of a full sequence of lessons available here. The class had a clear objective - an understanding of Julius Caesar's landing in Britain, using Caesar's own account in translation...

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  • Dramatising Boudicca and the Celts

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    Please note: this article pre-dates the current National Curriculum and some content and links are outdated. The story of Boudicca lends itself equally well to both history and drama. As a key part of work on ‘The Romans', it is an example of how history and drama when used together can contribute to...

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  • Citizenship: The Romans in Britain study unit

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    The english government has identified History in the national curriculum as one of the main vehicles for citizenship education. However, even if various issues in History exemplify citizenship concepts, learning about them during history lessons will not be sufficient to make the learning ‘citizenship education’. We have to move on...

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  • Primary History 45

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    04 Editorial 05 2006-2007 Historical Association History and ICT project — Alf Wilkinson 08 Citizenship: Citizenship through the English National Curriculum’s The Romans In Britain Study Unit — Hilary Claire 10 In my view: consigning history to the history books — Denis Hayes 11 Introducing history into the KS1 curriculum...

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  • Working with Boudicca texts - contemporary, juvenile and scholarly

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    Please note: this article was written before the the 2014 National Curriculum and some content may now be outdated. Robert Guyver describes a model for teaching Boudicca’s rebellion to pupils aged 7 to 13. Drawing on the tradition of critical source evaluation, he nonetheless shuns aspects of that tradition in favour of...

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