At the beginning of May, Year Five were very excited to explore one of England’s great archaeological sites at Westow. West Stow is the location of an early Anglo-Saxon village, occupied from AD 420-650, over 400 years before the Norman Conquest.
It was a beautiful sunny day to be
outside studying the reconstructed village of eight buildings where we were
even lucky enough to hear from an Anglo-Saxon man (although this was hampered
somewhat by the fact he only seemed to speak an ancient Anglian dialect). We
also got to see and handle real artifacts from Anglo Saxon which has really
brought our history topic in Year 5 to life!
Great fun and a great big “Ic þancie þē” (thank you in old English) to all our parent helpers who attended.
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