CHILDREN stepped back in time to the days of the Vikings yesterday.

Pupils aged seven to nine, from Myton Park Primary School, Ingleby Barwick, near Yarm, have been studying the period. And yesterday Viking expert Tanya Bentham, of Redcar, arrived at the school dressed in full Nordic regalia.

The children also had a chance to dress as Vikings and handle a variety of artefacts which they could draw.

Headteacher Dorothy Begley said: "The children had a really wonderful morning.

"It was all part of enriching the curriculum and was an enjoyable but also educational morning. I'm sure they will remember it forever."

Deputy headteacher Lee Eason, who took the class, said: "It brought the period to life for them far more than a photograph in a book."