Anglo-Saxons and Scots End of Topic Test

Year 4 HistoryAnglo-Saxons and Scots15 pages

About this worksheet

A 24-question end-of-topic test on the Anglo-Saxons and Scots for Year 4, written for the England National Curriculum. Five sections run from the Roman withdrawal in AD 410 to the ship burial at Sutton Hoo. Pupils sort push and pull factors, name the four missing kingdoms of the Heptarchy and match place-name endings such as -ham and -ford to their meanings. Later questions set Gildas against Bede as sources, and the test ends with two extended answers. Three answer pages give mark points for every question, with guidance on what to credit in the open ones.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Anglo-Saxons and Scots

โ€œBritain's settlement by Anglo-Saxons and Scotsโ€

Questions 1 to 18 cover the Roman withdrawal, the Scots from Ireland, the seven kingdoms, village life, law and the conversion to Christianity.

What's inside this worksheet

Section A: Invasion, Migration and Kingdoms

Three multiple-choice questions on AD 410, the Scots from Ireland and the Picts. Pupils fill gaps from a word bank that includes Vortigern and Hengist, tick push or pull for four reasons in a table, and write the four kingdoms missing from Essex, Sussex and Kent.

Section B: Daily Life, Settlement and Society

Pupils match -ham, -ton, -ford and -ley to their meanings, with towns such as Nottingham and Oxford as clues. A picture of a thatched timber house leads to questions on building materials and on why settlers chose rivers and woods. Short answers on the great hall, the Witan and wergild follow, then pupils rank king, thanes, ceorls and thralls from 1 to 4.

Section C: Beliefs, Religion and Culture

Pupils explain the word pagan and match Tiw, Woden, Thunor and Frige to Tuesday to Friday. They pair St Columba, St Augustine and St Aidan with Iona, Canterbury and Lindisfarne, tick two real changes Christianity brought, and name the Anglo-Saxon runic letters.

Section D: Historical Evidence and Enquiry

An illustration of the reconstructed helmet introduces the 1939 Suffolk ship burial. Pupils name Sutton Hoo, explain why no skeleton was found, and use the gold buckle and Byzantine silver to argue against the label Dark Ages. The last question puts a summary of Gildas beside Bede and asks why their views differ.

Section E: Synthesis and Evaluation

Two extended answers. Pupils pick violent invaders or peaceful farmers and defend that statement, then argue whether settlement or the conversion to Christianity changed Britain more between AD 410 and AD 750.

Answers

Mark points for all 24 questions. The open questions list what to credit for each side, and question 20 notes that phosphate traces in the soil suggest a body without proving one.

How teachers use it

Two sittings

The questions fill 12 pages, which is a lot for Year 4 in one go. Set Sections A to C in one lesson and D and E in the next, so pupils still have energy for the long answers.

Before question 22

Remind the class who Gildas was. A British monk writing while his towns were attacked will sound very different from an Anglo-Saxon monk nearly 200 years later.

Feedback on question 23

The mark scheme credits either statement. Read out one strong answer for each side and ask pupils which pieces of evidence both writers used.

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