Magic History of Roman Britain

Julius Caesar With suggested web-links for pupils' research

Our web downloads stats show that the Magic History is very popular, particularly part 1.
Part 3 Pax Romana is a detective story with great deal of information about everyday life in Roman Britain, plus web-links. Might you try this? - below right.

The Magic History of Roman Britain by Jon Nichol provides a great deal of information about life in Roman Britain in story form. It tells the story of Sam and Jane, two 21st century children who travel by magic to Roman Britain, and is suitable for the top end of KS2.

Here are part 1 'Caesar invades', part 2 'Conquest and rebellion' (the story of Boudicca) part 3 'Pax Romana' (a detective story about life in Roman Britain), and part 4 'Decline and fall' available as downloads from this website.

Using the material

Boudicca The text is divided into 2- or 3-page chapters, each with a summary of what it's about so they can be read individually.

The text includes web-links for further research by you and your pupils.

Printed-off readers can be used with whole class, with breaks to investigate clues on the internet. For instance you could download pictures of people or objects for the children to examine.

Children can copy and paste extra material into the story. Such on-screen reading and research is likely to be for single or paired children who need extra challenges.

What do you think of this so far?

We would be very interested to hear what you and your pupils think of this, and how you get on with the web-links. Please email Sarah Codrington.

We are grateful to our young reviewer Josh Palmer for reading and commenting on the script.

Downloads

>>Download the complete story on the right
>>Download a document with just the web-links, so you can quickly check through them, or use them as a free-standing source of information about Roman Britain.
>>Download the story with no web-links, for use as a reader.

Warning

The Nuffield Foundation is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. These external websites appeared to be suitable for pupils, but websites change and we cannot be sure that these sites do not have links to other websites or web pages which are not. Please follow your employer's rules and guidelines about allowing children to access the internet.