Medieval Food & Feasts
Your child can say what people ate long ago: bread and soup for most, grand feasts for the rich. They know people ate with their hands, as there were no forks.
In curriculum terms
What people ate in medieval times: bread and pottage for ordinary people, grand feasts for the rich; no forks, eating with hands; the great hall as the centre of castle life
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If your child went to a medieval banquet, could they describe what food would be served and which table manners would surprise them?
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Curriculum alignment
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This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).