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History // Medieval Times
Village LifeDaily life for ordinary people in a medieval village: thatched houses, farming, baking bread, fetching water; how different life was from today
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Kings & QueensWhat medieval kings and queens did: ruling the land, making laws, collecting taxes; the crown and throne as symbols of power; the Tower of London
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Knights & ArmourWhat knights were: trained warriors who served a lord; armour, shields, swords, and lances; the code of chivalry as rules for how knights should behave
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The VikingsWho the Vikings were: seafaring warriors and traders from Scandinavia; longships; Viking raids on Britain; that Vikings also settled and farmed
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Robin Hood & King ArthurThe legends of Robin Hood (Sherwood Forest, stealing from the rich, Merry Men) and King Arthur (Round Table, Excalibur, Camelot); that these are stories, not…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval ClothingWhat people wore in medieval times: peasant clothes (wool, linen) vs noble clothes (silk, fur, bright colours); no zippers or buttons; how clothes showed your…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Food & FeastsWhat people ate in medieval times: bread and pottage for ordinary people, grand feasts for the rich; no forks, eating with hands; the great hall as the centre…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Battle of Hastings and 1066The events of 1066: the death of Edward the Confessor, three claimants to the throne, the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror, and the Bayeux Tapestry as…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Medieval Pyramid of PowerHow medieval society was organised: king at the top, then lords, then knights, then peasants/serfs; who owed what to whom; the pyramid of power and mutual…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Medieval ChurchThe enormous power of the medieval Church: monasteries and the daily life of monks and nuns; building great cathedrals; pilgrimage as a religious journey; the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The CrusadesA simplified account of the Crusades: why Europeans travelled to the Holy Land, what they found there, the cultural exchange between Christian Europe and the…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Castle Design Through the AgesHow castles were built and evolved: from wooden motte-and-bailey to stone keeps to concentric castles; rooms and their uses; how castle design responded to new…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Anglo-Saxon BritainWho the Anglo-Saxons were: Germanic peoples who settled in Britain after the Romans left; their kingdoms, villages, place names, art, and eventual conversion to…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Siege WarfareHow castles were attacked and defended: siege weapons (trebuchets, battering rams, siege towers), boiling liquids, arrow slits, murder holes; the drama of a…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
The Black DeathThe Black Death of 1348-49: what the plague was, how it spread, its devastating death toll; how it changed society by giving surviving workers more power and…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptHistory // Medieval Times
Vikings vs Anglo-SaxonsThe conflict between Vikings and Anglo-Saxons for control of England: Viking raids, Alfred the Great's resistance, the Danelaw, Athelstan as first king of all…
Ages 7 to 9ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Computers in Everyday LifeIdentifying computers in everyday life — not just laptops but phones, tablets, smart speakers, traffic lights, washing machines; what makes something a computer
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
AI in Daily LifeSpotting AI in daily life: face unlock on a phone, video recommendations, spelling auto-correct, automatic doors that detect people; technology that seems to…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Voice Assistants and How They WorkWhat happens when you talk to Alexa, Siri, or Google Assistant; they listen, try to understand, look up answers; sometimes they get it wrong; they are tools…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Smart Versus Not-Smart DevicesSorting objects into 'smart' (can sense and respond) and 'not smart' (just sits there); a toaster vs a smart speaker; introduction to the idea that some…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Step-by-Step InstructionsStep-by-step instructions for everyday tasks (making a sandwich, brushing teeth); that if instructions are wrong or missing, things go wrong; computers follow…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Real-World RobotsWhat a robot really is — not the sci-fi version; robots in factories, robot vacuum cleaners, robot arms in surgery; that robots follow instructions given by…
Ages 5 to 7ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Data and Information for ComputersWhat data is: information that computers use — numbers, words, pictures, sounds; everything a computer knows comes from data that people give it
Ages 7 to 9ConceptComputing // Artificial Intelligence
Patterns and ClassificationHumans are great at spotting patterns; computers can learn to spot patterns too, but they need lots of examples; sorting and classification activities as the…
Ages 7 to 9Concept