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.

Claims to the throne

Your task today is to research the 4 main claimants to the English Throne in 1066...

Task 1

You should explain the strengths/weaknesses to their claim. To help I have some websites here that you can use if you wish. Make sure you have written down all the information and put your research into a folder. You then need to do task 2.

http://www.chiddingstone.kent.sch.uk/homework/bt/claimants.htm

http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/theclaimants.htm

http://www.normaninvasion.info/claims-throne-england-1066.htm

Task 2

Complete your work on the below website filling in the diagram and printing it off.

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/lessons/1066_claims/

Blogging Sunday: Seasonal Demand

Hello Y10 I hope you had a fab Winter Break! Today's blogging Sunday is all about something called seasonal demand.

Demand is defined on Tutor2U as follows:

 "Demand is the quantity of a good or service that consumers are willing and able to buy at a given price in a given time period."

Below you will see a bunch of photos of some of the presents I bought for my Nieces and Nephews for Christmas. Not everyone in our class will celebrate Christmas but some may have Eid or Diwali and so on where gifts or money are exchanged.

The point is at certain points during the year there are times when the demand for certain goods or services are higher. This is known as a demand fluctuation or simply where the numbers of people willing and able to buy something change.

The winter season in the UK is an excellent example of where we might see demand for certain products go up. Today your task is the following"

Task 1

Find a definition on this website for seasonal demand

Task 2

List some of the gifts you may have received over the winter break or at other important times in the year. Why were they given at this time of year?

Task 3

Explain why demand changes depending on culture, customers or even the weather. 

Task 4

Give some examples of other products or services which will change depending upon the time of year.

Year 7 Essay Help

Hi Year 7 I have set you an Essay to work on and hand in to me before the end of term. You have an essay structure I have given to you and I also have a bunch of websites below which will help you with your research:

Excellent Romans Website

A More details website for high level students

Another high level website

Primary History Website

Games on the Romans

Why the Roman army was so successful: Will & Cameron

What did we learn last lesson?
We were learning about why the roman army was so succeseful and why they were the best and smartest army that ever fought. Als owe learnt about their equipment and what it was useful for and why their statistics were very accurate and smart.

What was todays task?
Well the first task was to write the words that describe roman soilders. The next task was to draw 2 pictures that annitate the words that you have written on your whiteboard also sir wanted us to divide our page into 2 and on 1 picture it would have a roman soilder with a perfect soilder and the other is with what he wouldn't want them to look like. (they had 10 mins) Cameron and I chose some outstanding pictures and key words that some students have produced to come out to the front and share their ideas.(they then had another 5 mins) Their next task was to talk about the roman army's tactics. They talked about why 'The tortise ' was a good tactic. (they had 4 mins)

What have students learnt?
They have learnt what a roman soilder should look like and not look like also the key words for a roman soilder.They have also learnt how to draw a proper and in-proper roman soilder.Also they have learnt how the roman army got organise and how they planned to fight in a battle.
Some of the students told me the tortise tactic was a good tactic because it protects you from the javelins and even rain or snow or the other army's archers and equipment.

Todays homework is?
Their homework set today was to write 1 page on What amkes a really good roman soilder succesful.