The Settlers

Our part of the video is going to be about how the Vikings settles in several countries, including Britain.

We decided to research four things to do with how the Vikings came to Britain:

1. Their reasons for leaving Scandinavia
2. Which countries they went to
3. How they arrived in longships
4. How they lived when they settled here

Once we had completed our research we then worked together to work out creative ways of showing what we had found out in our video.  We are going to...

• film a role-play showing a Viking wedding where the man gives his new wife the key to his house.  We are going to film this outside the willow sculpture because we think that this looks like a Viking house might have looked

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  show pictures of the Scandinavia to show that the land there was no good for farming and film a role-play to show Viking farmers in Britain sowing seeds on the field and saying how glad they are that they came to Britain because it is much easier to grow food here.  We practiced this on the field to see what it will look like

 

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  use a map projected onto the whiteboard and a cut-out ship to show how the Vikings came across the sea to Britain and other countries
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  film a model longship to show how they Vikings would push their longships right up onto the beach when they landed