Rachel,Milli,Ellie,Jenni and Pippa's Caldicot Castle

Our project for history is on Caldicot Castle. We chose this castle because we found it very interesting and it looked easy to make. We knew a lot about it already because I live in Caldicot and have been there many times, my house backs onto the castle grounds.

The castle is really good because it is still intact and all the rooms are furnished how they would have been when the castle was first built.

It is built in beautiful grounds with lush green grass all around with a pond inside and a cannon in the middle of the grounds.There is a moat all around the castle but has no water in it now. The castle is open daily to the public and it is in a brilliant spot for tourists because there is a park opposite where the children play and have picnics so they can just pop along after eating to look inside. The castle also holds regular banquets where you have a meal with no knives or forks and some people are picked  before the meal to be King and Queen.

In the summer they do lots of activities in the castle and also hold medieval battles.
 
The castle is said to be haunted by the ''Grey Lady'' who people have claimed to have seen.

We made our castle out of lots of cardboard, green sticky tape for the grass and sand for the paths, we painted it a mud brown colour and made a brochure and a video about the castle, it was great fun!!!!!!!!!!   
 
Here are some photos:





 

                            
                                                  









         






















 

 BY ELEANOR 7S


I TOOK THE PHOTOS!!!

 

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.