Class LH have been busy as part of their 'Towers, Turrets and Tunnels' topic designing and making their own castles. Following our successful trip to Framlingham Castle, we came back and talked about all the different parts of a castle and what they were used for eg battlements., portcullis, drawbridge, arrow slits, curtain and the moat. We then drew a labelled picture of a castle that we would like to live in.
We also designed our own castle on the computers using Revelation Art.
As part of the DT, we looked at a range of mechanical moving toys and worked out how to use a pulley system to open and close the drawbridge and the portcullis. We planned and designed our castles with the moving parts.
This afternoon we shared what we'd learnt with each other about the difficulties and how we overcame them. We celebrated want went well and were able to talk about each other castles and what we liked about them.
