The End of Roman Britain

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Writing poems in the KS2 literacy hour about the Saxon destruction of a Roman town

Children studied an artist's picture of a bustling Roman market place.

The class developed ideas about the Saxon impact upon the town by studying a contemporary Saxon poem, The Ruin, a difficult and challenging text. The poem described what had happened to a Roman town during the period of Saxon invasion and settlement. Clues in the poem suggest that it might have been written about Bath.

by Jon Nichol