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INVADERS AND SETTLERS

Truth to Teach

• To introduce History as ‘His (God’s) Story’

Acts 17::26 ‘From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the

whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact
places where they should live.’

• To show the children that God is sovereign over the people of every nation

• To introduce the project on King Alfred and the Vikings

• To give chronological understanding by looking at invaders and settlers from

100BC until 1100 AD

• To introduce the concept of a time-line

Way to Work

1. Ask the children if they know what History really means then introduce it as ‘His
Story’, God’s plan for the world he created.

2. Put a plate of burnt cakes, a candle, school prospectus, a Viking sail and a Bible on a
tray and ask if the children know how these items are connected.

• Alfred, according to legend, burnt the cakes. He had hidden, disguised, in a

swineherd’s house and she asked him to look after her cakes in the oven but he
let them burn. She beat him but realised afterwards who he was and
apologised.
• Alfred was a Christian who invented the candle clock and started the first

Christian school.
• Alfred fought the Vikings who sailed in boats with red and white striped sails

3. If possible, have a time-line on the wall with various biblical characters on it. Talk
about the Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Picts and Scots invading Britain before the Vikings.

Discuss why so many wanted to invade our land (good farmland, climate, etc).

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