Today's lesson we painted the castle and watched the video that Laura jex made with the help of me and baron Zena, her Hines. We made a bit of a mess on the table but we cleared it all up at the end because the first one who clears there table will get more marks. My group is third out of five.
we want to get more marks to get in second placer.

wish me luck next week,
Pancakes.

 

This is our group working on our castle

 

This is our baron

Our groups Castle Project.

Day 1 Blogging

Our group have decided to do the Bolsover castle due to it being from Derby; which is one of our group members home town. We also chose this castle because it looked very intresting to the eye. It had a lot of information about it so we thought it was a good idea to do. Aurelie is the Barron. We chose her to do this job because she is well orginised and she always makes sure everything is complete. Amy & Mieke are the knights. We all thought they would be the best at being the knights because they listen to instructions very well and they do what they have been told with no arguement. So day 1 has been good so far.
Blogger -Rosie.

Day 2 Blogging

Shooting a small video this lesson. Amy is in charge of shooting. Everything is going well. We have the front of the castle already done which is brilliant. Aurelie is taking good control of the group so everything is complete. Mieke is collecting suplies from Santosh: Glue, tape, paint etc. We have just had 16 copies made of brochures that Aurelie wrote last night which was always helpful. Shooting the video is very fun. I also think it is a very creative idea to show other people how we were acting whilst doing this project. Also making the castle is very fun to do. Mieke is in charge of making the castle and she's doing a very good job of it!
Blogger -Rosie.
 

We have now started to decorate the castle because we finished the main structure of the castle . We are     now making the roof and we will be sticking the roof onto the castle and we will finish painting the castle and  cutting the windows out. We also need to make the pillars for the castle and stick them on 

 

our group chose the Alnwick castle because its a huge tourist attraction and it was a big part of the medieval
times. Its also used for many other things like it was the castle for all the Harry Potter movies (Hogwarts).
Its also very easy to build and its a very eye catching castle.

Our group chose the Leeds castle. We chose it because of the beauty and the amazing structure of the   also  castle. Another reason we chose it is because it was easy to make and the history is magnificent also the castle was made in Maidstone, Kent, UK and Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth the first lived in these castles.

CastleKing Introduction

This is CastleKing here, for the introductory blog to our new topic of building a castle based on a real castle, and ours is the Caerlaveroeck castle originating from Scotland.

The History Feudal System

During your castle project the following rules will apply:

1. Only Barons may communicate and ask questions to the King.
2. Barons may freely discuss matters of importance with each other and assist each other if they wish to do so.
3. Knights may ask questions of their Barons.
4. Knights may not speak to knights under other Barons.
5. Knights may never ask questions of the King or else risk being beheaded...

Year 7 Castle Building Project

Greetings Year 7

This term you have been learning a great deal about castles in the middle ages, why they started being built, how they developed over time and finally why they stopped being effective in warfare and became more like expensive status symbols.

Your Task

1. In a group put together by myself you are going to create a model replica of a castle which is based upon an actual castle design that you have researched.
2. You will create a fact sheet about the background to your castle and who built it and so on and this will be done in the form of a flyer that could be handed out to visitors to your castle. You may also choose to do a video introduction to the castle which could be played in the foyer.
3. Finally you are going to take photos of how you researched, designed and finally built the castle step by step and blog this on the Year 7 History blog to show to the rest of the school.

Choose who in your team that will take photos and write down what you are doing as a group as they need this information to create the blog. Their job is to tell website readers how you chose and researched the castle and how you built the castle replica.