Curriculum

These are bounded opportunities, not learner attainment. Partial and blocked source requirements remain so.

• partial: 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

  Bounded objective and prepared task only; all examples, universal claims and real-world behaviour are not established. Ordinary bread/pottage/ale diet, great-hall feast comparison and surprising table manners remain partial or blocked pending region/date-specific evidence. Do not teach blanket no-forks, shared-cups or floor-throwing rules. No cooking, alcohol or food purchases required.

• partial: Describe what ordinary people ate most days (bread, pottage, vegetables, ale)

  One royal recipe is not evidence of ordinary people's most-days diet.

• partial: Explain how a feast in a great hall was different from everyday meals

  Task identifies the missing comparison evidence rather than inventing a feast.

• blocked: Name one surprising table manner from medieval times (no forks, shared cups, food thrown on the floor)

  No verified table-manners example obtained; canonical examples are not repeated as fact.

• partial: If {{name}} went to a medieval banquet, could they describe what food would be served and which table manners would surprise them?

  Prepared adapted check is not a complete equivalent to all source contexts, images or genuine independent habits. Ordinary bread/pottage/ale diet, great-hall feast comparison and surprising table manners remain partial or blocked pending region/date-specific evidence. Do not teach blanket no-forks, shared-cups or floor-throwing rules. No cooking, alcohol or food purchases required.

• Ordinary bread/pottage/ale diet, great-hall feast comparison and surprising table manners remain partial or blocked pending region/date-specific evidence. Do not teach blanket no-forks, shared-cups or floor-throwing rules. No cooking, alcohol or food purchases required.