Year 4
In full stride
Butser Ancient Farm
Year 4 explored life in the Anglo-Saxon times during our visit to Butser Ancient Farm. We learnt about cooking, weaving, fence
building, farm work and daily customs. We were able to step back in time and explore an Anglo Saxon house as if we were really
living and working during those times. The children then undertook a creative writing task imagining that they had suddenly
awoken in the Anglo Saxon times.
I awoke in an Anglo-Saxon house dazed and confused. I wasn’t back home in my warm, cosy bed! Instead I was lying on an animal
skin with a blazing fire in front of me. I needed to move, to work this out. I walked through the door and looked around. I was in a
village of some sort. All the houses were rectangular and there seemed to be farmland for each and every house. I saw a man
coming towards me and he shouted at me in a foreign language. That’s when I realised what had happened - I had somehow been
transported to the Anglo-Saxon times. We had studied this at school and I’d even seen it first hand at Butser Ancient Farm but
could I survive long enough to find my way home? George
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I awoke in an Anglo-Saxon house dazed and confused. My head
ached and everything was blurry. Finally, when my eyes had
cleared I saw animal skins on the floor, I smelt smoke all around
me and I heard animals. In fact, I could see animals. They were
sleeping in the same room as me! It hit me that I was in an
Anglo Saxon house. I was so shocked, almost as if I’d seen a
ghost. I headed towards the door and noticed the strange
triangular shape carved on it. I had learnt about this when I had
gone to Butser Ancient Farm with my class. The Anglo-Saxon’s
believed House Elves could enter their houses through these
triangles and they would help them finish any incomplete house
work. I think all houses should have house elves. As scared as I
was at being in a different time, I was quite excited as well. Bria