Vikings Fact File

Year 5 Vikings Fact File Template – History Resource

Bring your Vikings topic to life with this engaging Year 5 Viking Fact File Template! This resource provides pupils with the opportunity to consolidate their learning, demonstrate their historical knowledge and present key facts about Viking life in a clear, structured format.

Designed to support learning within a KS2 History unit on the Vikings, this template encourages pupils to retrieve, organise and communicate information they have learnt throughout the topic.

What can pupils include in their Viking fact file?

• Viking Origins:Where the Vikings came from and the countries they originated from.
• Viking Settlements: Where the Vikings travelled, settled and established communities.
• Daily Viking Life: What everyday life was like for Viking men, women and children.
• Viking Jobs and Occupations:The different roles Vikings carried out, including farming, trading, crafting and exploring.
• Viking Burial Artefacts: Explore the objects and artefacts discovered in Viking graves, including what a Viking was buried with and how these archaeological finds help historians understand Viking life, beliefs, customs and society.

Why use this resource?

• Provides a structured framework for pupils to organise their historical knowledge.
• Encourages independent learning, retrieval practice and the consolidation of key facts.
• Supports the development of historical writing and information-sharing skills.
• Offers an opportunity for pupils to present their learning creatively.
• Can be used as a plenary activity, end-of-unit assessment, independent task or topic review.

Perfect for: Year 5 pupils studying the Vikings as part of the KS2 History curriculum.

This fact file template is a simple and effective way for pupils to showcase what they have learnt about Viking life, origins, settlements and occupations while creating their own informative piece of historical work.