Picture of Queen Boadicea and her Celts in their last stand against the Roman Invasion. Introduction from Tangiora: Last time we heard from the Spelling Queen how the Romans took their alphabet to Britain. Who were the next to invade and what did they contribute? Paquita – The Anglo-Saxons invaded next. They added some new letters to the alphabet to spell their sounds, new sounds that Romans and Celts did not use. For example, the sharp vowel sound [a] in AXE, SLASH, BASH an

Tangiora: We’re going to learn some history this morning that is centred around the alphabet which arrived in Britain many years ago, when the Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and decided to stay. We shall ask our Spelling Queen to shed some light on this subject . Paquita: The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD and stayed on. They took their alphabet with them. It only had 21 letters then but that was enough letters to spell their words, Latin words, and the local Celtic words