Life in the Roman World

Life in the Roman World is a set of teaching resources focused on

investigating everyday life in Roman Britain. There are two courses, one set

designed to be appropriate for KS2, another for KS3 pupils. The resources

include carefully chosen information, key questions, and cross-curricular

enquiry tasks, with teacher support materials, on a wide range of topics:

from Julius Caesar’s invasion to food and drink; from life in the Roman army

to analysing ancient graves and their markers. Pupils investigate the impact

of Rome’s occupation of Britain through stories, word root tasks, and structured

tasks to analyse surviving primary evidence. All the resources are based on cutting-edge,

university-led research.

KS2 teachers of both Minimus and Maximum Classics will find a wealth of material to support their teaching of primary Latin as well as the Roman topics on the National Curriculum for History. The resources also show you how to focus on your own local Roman history. All the suggested tasks can be used as entries for CfA’s Olympus Challenge scheme and the Young Historian Ancient Civilisations Award, so you can celebrate and accredit your pupils’ learning too.

The KS3 resources are ideal for teachers as a local history topic, as well as a pre-1066 enquiry. You could also use them in after-school classics clubs, working towards CfA’s Olympus Challenge.

An appendix shows how tasks can also fit into the Cambridge Latin Course and Suburani for anyone teaching Latin. Schools already using the resources say that the combination of Word Root exercises with analysis of primary sources helps to develop pupils’ vocabulary and confidence in reading longer passages, as well as their critical analysis skills, as part of an aspirational curriculum.

If you have any questions about the resources, please contact Jane at acc-cori@le.ac.uk
 

How can I access the resources?
Please fill out the appropriate form for the age group you wish to teach and send it to

acc-cori@le.ac.uk. We’ll then send over the resource pack to you, via WeTransfer.
 

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What do I get in the resource pack?

The KS2 and KS3 resource packs are different but include the same format of materials:

• a class-set of Life in the Roman World books and teacher copies of the Hoards, Hounds, and Helmets book on the key site at Hallaton

• teacher resources document, detailing key questions and cross-curricular tasks, guidance on teaching with word roots and material sources, and an appendix showing how each task meets the National Curriculum requirements and fit with topics in Latin textbooks

• a PowerPoint presentation (with notes on teaching in presenter format) for each chapter,providing key primary and secondary sources for the suggested activities and 10 words per chapter for identification of Latin word roots

• an online resources document, providing links to other useful digital resources an instructions on how to use databases of relevant primary source materi

 

Can I see some examples?

Yes, go to https://romanleicester.com/resources/resourcesforteachers

I don’t know much about Roman Britain or archaeology, can I still use the resources?

Yes! The book accompanying the resources and the PowerPoint presentations give beginner’s guides to working with material sources, as well as a framework of questions to scaffold pupils’

analysis. We can also deliver a free training session for you and your colleagues on working with primary sources, pitched appropriately for KS2 or KS3 staff. The session gives primary advice on teaching all periods of history through primary source material.

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Contact Jane at acc-cori@le.ac.uk for more details.