In a year-long feast of medieval life up to 1066 you will savour the age like a slow-cooked stew. Term 1 (Autumn, 12 weeks): foundations — fall of Rome, Anglo‑Saxons, early kingdoms, monastic life and the arrival of the Vikings. Lessons: lively maps, source tasting (Asnapium), and saga readings. Term 2 (Spring, 12 weeks): society and spectacle — manor economy, peasants and lords, craft, dress, liturgy, and castle architecture. Activities: build a keep model, illustrated manuscript page, and a kitchen garden experiment with period recipes. Term 3 (Summer, 12 weeks): politics and crisis — kingship, law, the Godly and the gritty, pilgrimage, and the road to 1066: Edward, Harold, and Norman pressures. Activities: mock moot court, battlefield terrain mapping, watch Time Team specials, and dramatise eye‑witness accounts. Throughout: weekly source workshops, fortnightly creative journals, and a rotating independent reading list (DK, Janega, R. W. Southern excerpts). Assessment: portfolio of projects, a 1066 multimedia presentation, timeline exam, and a reflective tasting — a short essay on how the past flavours the present. Expect curiosity, mess, and pleasure: history served warm and utterly irresistible. Bring notebooks, a taste for detail, a readiness to ask messy questions, and a spoonful of wonder, always.