Children started the topic by exploring people's misconceptions about the Stone Age. We also learnt about the word anachronism which we now know is when something does not belong to a particular place or time in the past.

Children then learnt about the famous Happisburgh footprints. We now know that these footprints, excavated by archeologists, belonged to Stone Age people who were possibly gathering food and were the oldest footprints found in Europe! 

We then became archeologists ourselves and explored artefacts from the Old Stone Age and New Stone Age. We found many differences in the way of life from both of these times.

We learnt about Summer and Winter camps which is where the Stone Age people stayed during different times of the year and reasons for this. Children then had the opportunity to draw both the outside and inside of a winter dwelling, labelling the main features such as a fire so light and warmth.

We started by looking at a variety of hill forts across Britain. We were amazed to discover that these hill forts were still present more than 2000 years later! We also learnt some new vocabulary...

In this lesson, we found out that, even though we can still see the landscape of a hill fort, it would have looked very different during the Iron Age period. 

Today, we had to work out why life during the Iron Age wasn't as peaceful as life during the Stone Age. We used different artefacts that included, a map from the Iron Age, a chart showing the rising number of people and different images. We found out that a lot of Britain was becoming over populated and a lot of the land was already occupied. For this reason, different tribes would fight for ownership of weapons and land. It was vital for their tribes survival. 

Then, we had to imagine that we found our very own hoard of staters buried underneath the Eastfield playground! We then got to design our very own staters thinking about the tribe that would have been closet to us! Finally, we wrote our own newsreports about our imaginary hoard! Take a look below...  

Many Iron Age artefacts were discovered underwater... these included... 

The main purpose of these items was to offer them to their gods by placing many of them in rivers, lakes and even wells.

This is called making a votive offering.

Why water? 

Water in general, and particularly moving water, was seen as a pathway to the gods and the route to the Otherworld, to which, they believed, everyone would move to when they died. 

Facts about the Romans...