R & H SERVICES

Normans

 

 

Module 1 - Knight School:

 

The life and times of a knight, learn how to be a knight look at the training with all the armour, weapons and test out your bowman skills.

 

Activity: trying on armour and Archery

 

Module 2 - Daily Life:

 

Look at how Normans fed and clothed themselves, what you would need to do to survive.

 

Activity: Weaving

 

Module 3 - Food:

 

What type of food? How was it produced? What different classes ate? What you eat when?

 

Activity: Food tasting

 

Module 4 - Norman Culture:

 

Where that went, what they did, ideas and beliefs.

 

Activity: Design of the times, Clay work

 

Module 5 - Artefacts:

 

Go digging for evidence. What objects you find can tell you. who would have used them? and what for?

 

Activity: Archaeological dig

 

Module 6 - Medicine:

 

How you would have been diagnosed and treated in Norman times. What do you think of the treatment?

 

Activity: Diagnosis and treatments

 

Module 7 - Crime and punishment:

 

Look at the laws of the time and what happened if you broke them.

 

Activity: Court session