This week, Year 4 had an exciting visitor … Erik Erikkson, a real-life Viking!

He taught us all about Viking life, including the clothing they wore, the weapons they used and law and punishment. We also got to look at lots of different artefacts including real Viking armour! All of this will help us immensely with our History topic this half term, which is called Vikings: Were they Traders or Invaders?

Here are some quotes from the children about the fun facts they learnt:

“He told us that Saxon’s thought washing was unhealthy, so they only had one bath a year!” – Faith H

“They drank beer because it was cleaner than drinking the water.” – Sophie D

“The Saxons and Vikings took their parents name so if my name was Grayson and my dads name was Kyle, my name would be Grayson Kyleson, which tells people I am Kyle’s son.” – Grayson J

“He told us Vikings would typically only live to be 30 years old, so they got married at 11 and had lots of children early. Did you know, the dads also got to pick who they married.” – Lillie A

“There was no letter J in the alphabet so if your name was Jack, you would say it like Yack.” – Tyler P