St. Cuthbert's
Catholic Primary School & Nursery
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Viking Day at Croxteth Hall |
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In June, Year 3 and 4, Miss Walsh and Miss O'Callaghan teamed up with the same year children at St Sebastian's and headed to Croxteth Hall for a Viking Day. This is what it was about…
All the participants had to dress in appropriate costume. The children were divided into smaller groups each led by one of the living history team.
It is 999 AD. Welcome to Krok's steath, or Krok's Farm. The Vikings, with their reputation for trading and raiding well founded, have established a settlement near to the banks of the River Alt. They are farming the land and have built themselves a long-house to live in. They are always on the lookout for trouble from the local Saxons but are now mostly peacefully engaged in farming the land they have acquired, and the animals on it.
The word is out that strangers are in the vicinity and the visiting groups (children) have to show that they have no ill intent towards the occupiers of the settlement.
Some Vikings might be staying temporarily here before moving on to Jorvik or York, as it was to become known in later times. As keen traders the Vikings showed the visitors how they live and will encourage the young ones to participate in many aspects of daily life and work of the settlement - simple food preparation and cooking, animal husbandry, spinning and weaving, leechcraft (medicines), wood turning or basket and hurdle making.
The rich history of sagas, as told by a 'scald lady', helped bring the past to life. The day was an exciting and authentically detailed programme full of the sights, sounds and smells of a Viking settlement, which provided a dramatic and profound learning experience.
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