Hillforts KS2 Topic Pack

A hillforts topic pack for Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 11), for the Stone Age to Iron Age unit: what a hillfort is, label-the-hillfort, living in a hillfort, put-it-in-order and Iron Age or not cut-out cards, a true-or-false quiz, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a comic strip, a roundhouse colouring page, a certificate and full answers.

What’s inside:

- Teacher page: how the pack fits KS2 history (Department for Education wording)

- Forts on the hills: four starter facts from the Atlas of Hillforts

- What is a hillfort? Reading and questions

- Label the hillfort (our own drawing)

- Living in a hillfort: reading and questions

- Put it in order: four cut-out date cards

- Iron Age or not Iron Age? Twelve cut-out sorting cards

- True or false quiz

- Crossword where every answer is a real fact

- Word search

- Comic strip to draw

- Roundhouse colouring page

- Hillfort Explorer certificate

- Answer key

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 17 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink. The KS2 order and sorting cards are meant to be cut out.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from English Heritage, the National Trust, Historic Environment Scotland, Hampshire County Council, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, the University of Edinburgh and the Department for Education (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs or copies of real objects, buildings or maps, not to scale, and not copied from any plan, print, photo or book, or from any guidebook or site plan. Not affiliated with English Heritage, the National Trust, Historic Environment Scotland, Hampshire County Council, Hampshire Cultural Trust, Pembrokeshire Coast National Park, the University of Edinburgh or the Department for Education. Their names are used only to identify the sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind hillforts.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.