Roman Sunset

The Roman legions marched to fight distant wars. People, abandoned by the military, tried to live as before but their enemies saw weakness and invaded, attacked towns and cities, stole cattle, set fire to crops, slaughtered young and old alike and took the rest as slaves. Small groups survived, but with dwindling food supplies they faced death from starvation in the coming winter. Retired soldiers and their families find safety in an old cavalry fort. Refugees join them, including a village headman and a brewer and his daughter.
The soldiers want to maintain the Empire's rules until the legions return; the village chief has lost all confidence in the protection of Rome and seeks safety in a new settlement in the hills. The brewer's daughter cannot consider a future while her boyfriend remains a slave in a remote land.
They know the raiders will return. To survive, they must resolve their differences, work together and fight back against their enemies.

Elizabeth has been working with SEN pupils in primary and secondary settings since graduating from the University ofSussex with an English Language BA in 2014. She has spent many an hour helping SEN pupils in English Literature lessons asa teaching assistant, and figured out along the way that simple, engaging visual retellings of stories across the GSCE Englishcurriculum prove effective in helping the pupils to understand what they are reading. Currently she works as Deputy SENCoat an Outstanding-graded London school, where she also delivers speech and language interventions, and always tries tomake learning as visual and engaging as possible.