If you asked Michael Wood what the Anglo-Saxons ever did for us he would give a very full and erudite answer, some of which would be beyond KS2 pupils. But in his answer he would include 8 ideas that they might be able to grasp. But what are they ? Here they come:
- They welcomed Christianity
- They gave us the idea of the English nation
- They bequeathed us spellbinding poetry
- They gave us the greatest of all Britons
- They fashioned our legal system
- They preached in the language of the people
- They wrote brilliant histories
- They shaped the England we know today