Roman Britain - Attack!

A lesson developed through staff collaboration using Lesson Study. Look for the other similarly named lessons.

- Fully resourced
- Fun and interactive
- Designed for all abilities (including SEN)
- Pair/Group work focused
I delivered the lesson as follows:
Starter: Inference Picture Task. Get pupils to try and suggest what may be happening in the picture (e.g. The White Cliffs of Dover suggests it’s in Britain etc)
Main Tasks: Quick question video clip in which pupils watch the film and write down some basic answers. This is used to set the scene.
Group Work: Get pupils into groups of 3. Prior to the lesson stick on one side of sugar/A3 paper the resources I have included (sources for invasion). Also pupils should read the 'Instruction sheet legionnaire' to gain an understanding of the task. Then give the pupils 15 minutes to plan. After this use the PP to bring up the scenario slides which may put a spanner in their planning. I do this every 5 minutes.
Plenary/Consolidation: Pupils are to use the sentence starters to write an extended piece of writing about the invasion of Britain. Also, use the link to the BBC to see how accurate the pupils were in their exercises.
** The 'I believe' statement cards were used to try and get some of the quieter pupils to explain their thoughts orally.