Scientific & Technological
Understanding
Understanding the Arts
Computing: Digital Media -Create simple
stop motion animations.-Apply more
complex effects to photographs using a
computer.
Music: - Set musical tasks that involve different uses of the voice.
Ask the pupils to compose poems, raps or chants relating the
Vikings. Pupils to explore, select and combine a range of untuned and tuned instruments to create contrasting moods and
atmospheres. E.g. A Viking raid, the arrival of the Vikings; the
actual raid; and the celebratory return home.
Inspiration Day:
Guthrum the Viking Warrior
DT: Textiles/Weaving ‘Abstract’ collage
combining different knotting, plaiting,
weaving, threading around or through 2d
shapes.
Literacy & Language
Book Stimulus: Grim Gruesome Viking Villain –
The Cursed Sword
Small scale weaving project using wool
Recount: Use descriptions in The Cursed Sword,
and the information above for a class discussion
about Viking houses.Get children to each make
a list of the differences between a Viking house
and a modern home, then compare and discuss.
Understanding physical
development , health and
well-being
Large scale weaving project using a range
of fabrics/materials.
RE ‘Ideas
About God’
PSHE: Changes Yellow Set Y3
(Positive Changes; Change is
Normal; Make a Plan to Bring
About Change)
PSHE Association- Theme: Living
in the Wider World – Enterprise
(Class 4 Enterprise Scheme)
PSHE Association Theme: Health
& Well-Being
SRE (YEAR B) Changes; Male &
Female/Puberty; Relationship &
Love; Human Reproduction;
contraception
Historical, Geographical and Social Understanding
Poetry: Get the children to imagine they are
Bjarni and compose a short poem in praise of
his cursed sword. This should mention: a name
for the sword reflecting its victories in battle
Britain’s settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scots
Scots invasions from Ireland to north Britain (now Scotland), Anglo-Saxon
invasions, settlements and kingdoms: place names and village life,
Anglo-Saxon art and culture; Christian conversion – Canterbury, Iona and
Lindisfarne
Recount: Find pictures of reconstructed Viking
ships on the internet. Using these and the
descriptions in The Cursed Sword, get children
to imagine they are a Viking child sailing on a
ship for the first time.
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of
Edward the Confessor
Viking raids and invasion
Resistance by Alfred the Great and Athelstan, first king of England
Further Viking invasions/Danegeld
Anglo-Saxon laws & justice
Edward the Confessor and his death in 1066
Adventure Story: Complete a series of writing
tasks inspired by the book ‘There’s a Viking in
my Bed’ e.g. setting description, describing
modern day objects to a Viking, character
description/missing person poster for Sigurd.
Write a sequel about Sigurd entitled ‘there’s a
Viking in my School’.Story Writing: Create a
comic strip using ICT, re-telling a Viking Saga in
own words.