On Tuesday 21st October, Y5 were lucky enough to be visited by Richard (That History Bloke). First, we listened to a Viking saga called ‘Ragnar Hairylegs’ and we noticed some similarities between that and the British legend of The Lambton Worm. Richard brought loads of Viking artefacts for us to explore and ask questions about – we couldn’t believe how clever the Vikings were and that they actually invented travel mugs made from horns! We held swords, shields, combs, necklaces, hair pins and brooches. After that, we had a go at writing our names in runes on wax tablets and to end, we played tretavel an actual Viking game of strategy! We loved our workshop and it definitely brought our Viking history topic to an exciting end.
