Planning the Anglo Saxons topic effectively ensures meaningful, engaging learning that builds pupils’ knowledge and thinking skills. These top tips offer practical guidance to help you design coherent, rich studies that spark curiosity, deepen understanding of the past, and support progression across the key stage. Make your history planning purposeful and powerful.
- Most schools will have taught the Anglo-Saxons before, but usually only as part of a brief overview. It has now got to be more detailed, but there are ways of teaching some of the Saxons material alongside the Vikings to save time and make it more coherent. Don’t worry about spending too much time on Scotland… unless you want to
- It’s useful to make links with the Romans and to compare their motivation for invading.
- Make sure you give full weight to the arrival of Christianity and the work of monks in monasteries – which is picked up
