Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify and describe reasons for and the effect of the Roman invasion of Britain and a template to write a letter in character about the reasons as to why the Romans invaded Britain in the past.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to write diary entries to describe how the Romans invaded and settled in Britain.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate some of the reasons for the growth of the Roman Empire in the past and why the Romans invaded ancient Britain. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.