Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?

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The title of this lesson is “Who is buried at Sutton Hoo?”

The lesson begins with a starter activity where students view some pictures of modern day Sutton Hoo and there are directed questions to introduce the burial mounds. They then sift through a range of evidence from the British Museum to decide if they feel the Anglo-Saxon King buried here is Raedwald or Siegebert. Background information on both is provided. It leads to excellent and reasoned discussion as well as thoughtful judgements and can be used as preparation for an assessed piece of work. One has a child so the discovery of silver spoons (often given as a Christening present may allude to him etc). Students vote in the plenary to arrive at a class judgement. It is a lesson I designed when I lived in the East of England so it means a lot to share this history mystery with fellow teachers. Sometimes I like to bring in sirt and get the students to actually dig out the evidence! I hope your students enjoy it as much as mine and I’d love to hear who they think (!) is buried there in your review.

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Wishing you a terrific day.