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Thorgil the Viking
Grab your sword and join us on a hammer-hurling historical voyage in this KS2 Viking workshop!
You’ll meet a real-life Viking (we promise Vikings did exist, this is our facilitator in role), then travel from Denmark to England on a ship (queue lots of heave-hoeing!), before you retell the gripping story of ‘Thor’s Hammer.’
There is a high yuck-factor with this drama workshop. Get ready to smear walls with animal dung, learn about Viking crimes and punishments, and brandish the ‘Bloodspillar’ sword; We know you will delight in and be, totally grossed out by, the Vikings.
You will travel to our baer using your lodestone and stay in a longhouse made with wattle and daub. But don’t get caught in a holmgang on the way! What do you mean you don’t speak Old Norse?
Come and learn the meaning of these words and more in our KS2 Viking workshop!
Why choose Freshwater?
Our sessions:
- Are highly interactive, offering hands-on learning, which allow all your pupils to access the topic.
- Add depth and richness to the curriculum and stimulate further learning.
- Use carefully chosen drama techniques, so that children feel a personal involvement in the topic which helps to embed subject knowledge.
- Allow the teacher an opportunity to observe pupils’ progress from a different perspective.
- Are led by experienced drama facilitators who immerse the children in an imaginative world, helping to make learning fun!
Looking for something on the Anglo Saxons? Check out our KS2 Beowulf and the Anglo Saxons workshop. Or explore our entire range of history sessions.
The children were fully engaged throughout the whole session. The facilitator had excellent behaviour management so all children enjoyed the workshop.
Lucy Kelsall, Hillcross Primary School, Morden
Details
Length of session: 60 minutes
Price: One session costs £148 + VAT
Number of Children: up to 30
Extra children are negotiable
All facilitators are DBS checked
Curriculum Link
The Viking and Anglo-Saxon struggle for the Kingdom of England to the time of Edward the Confessor
Key Areas
Journey and settlement
Viking communities - family, work and homelife
The 'thing' - court of law meeting
Fortune telling with runes
The Theft of Thor's Hammer
