​Saxon Experience​​
​Leave only Footprints

​Saxons in the Meon Valley

This program focuses on Anglo Saxons life in the Meon Valley and current practices here at the Sustainability Centre.

Your class join us in the woodland classroom, set up as a Saxon longhouse, to look at replica artifacts of the period. We discuss the domestic life, hand crafts and warrior kit of Saxon peoples. Children engage in a hands on challenge to find evidence from pottery found in archaeological sites. Pupils also have the opportunity to weave mini-hurdles with willow, while learning about coppiced woods used by Saxons to build homes and fences.

Exploring the site’s plants, herbs and ‘hedges’, a word derived from Anglo Saxon ‘haga’ meaning enclosure, we see how people then and now value biodiversity in the landscape. Finally pupils hear about the evidence left behind by Saxon settlements and consider what impact the buildings on our site have on the land and what evidence will be left for future generations.

Pre-visit Studies

• http://www.saxonsinthemeonvalley.org.uk/  
• KS2 Anglo Saxon settlements, village life, art and culture Design & Technology.
• KS2 Understanding how key events and individuals in design and technology have. helped shape the world Human and physical geography.
• KS2 Human geography, including types of settlement and land use, economic activity, trade links and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

The Saxons in your school!

For schools within a 10 mile radius of our centre we can bring the topic to you!
With a show and tell of replica artefacts of the period the focus will be on the domestic history and the crafts of the Saxons.

Pupils will carry out some hands on activities and look at how pottery is identified from archaeological sites.