A missionary is a person sent on a religious mission, especially one sent to promote Christianity in a foreign country

Picts were a tribe of people who lived in what is now eastern and northeastern Scotland

Gaul was an ancient region of Western Europe which included France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and parts of Switzerland, the Netherlands, Germany, and Northern Italy

Irish missionaries

History

Roman Christianity in Britain

The impact of the Romans' withdrawal on religion

St Patrick and Christianity in Ireland

The growth of Irish monasteries

How Christianity survived the Romans' departure

In ‘Britain after the Romans: how did Christianity survive in the British Isles?’ pupils explore the evidence of where Christianity survived in Britain. In ‘Early Islamic civilisation: how did Baghdad become the ‘City of Peace'?’ pupils look at the emergence of another religion: Islam.

In 'The Romans: what is the story of Christianity's rise?' pupils built on their knowledge of the Roman Empire by studying an overview of Christianity's spread across the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Near East. In ‘Britain after the Romans: how did Christianity survive in the British Isles?’ pupils explore the evidence of where Christianity survived in Britain.

In this unit, pupils develop their causal understanding by learning how Christianity survived in the British Isles following the departure of the Romans. They learn about how religion changed after the Romans left and the importance of Irish Christianity in this period.

Britain after the Romans: how did Christianity survive in the British Isles?

a tribe of people who lived in what is now northeastern Scotland

the support given by a person to another person, organisation or cause

a building lived in by a community of monks who follow religious vows

a member of a community of men living under religious vows

Clonmacnoise and Glendalough are the names of two... 

What were monasteries important centres for?

Why were the monasteries large and full of valuable objects?

Irish missionaries

Lesson outcome