Cross-curricular Ideas
Cross-curricular Ideas
sentence using words from the list, e.g. ‘Drools
of sickening, slimy saliva splattered on to my
shield when the fearsome monster opened his
cavernous mouth and gave a deafening roar.’
Draw the outline of a huge dragon and get
everyone to write their sentences in
the dragon with coloured pens.
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Saxonos
Food
Technology
Make bread without
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Create an archaeosalond and buried
ion with
using a sensory stat
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photos of Anglo-Saxo
items, or laminated
ry etc.
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Make a class
list of adjectives, verbs
and adverbs to describe a scary
dragon. Create a really good descriptive
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archaeological repo
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using yeast. Shape it into simple
‘cakes’ and bake – mind they don’t
burn!
. The AngloSaxons kept bees and loved honey
because they didn’t have sugar.
Check out their beehives.
Try eating them
with honey
Loo
of the Bakyat pictures
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copper wash
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the story o
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f the last A
nglo-Saxo
battle aga
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inst the No
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out for Kin
1066. Look
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eye and stu
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dy the cloth
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are worn.
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copying pa
rt of the ta
pestry.
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make a co
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a piece of
jewellery.
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oups and using a
instruments such as horns, ha
ade? Then divide into gr
m
of instruments be easily
.
Can any of these types
ate your own music poem
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variety of instruments (in
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the Beowulf instru
four instrumental tracks
to accompany each of the
presentation.
ideas). Use these in your
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for
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Listen to
percussion instruments
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