Name: Portchester Castle Discovery Visit - Big History: From Dominant Castle to Hidden Fort
Uploaded: 2020-06-08T05:21:13.000Z
Duration: 2 min 14 s
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Hello, this is Portchester Castle. It's a twelfth century castle inside a roman fort.

Our Discovery Visit is linked with the Big History; we call it Dominant Castle to Hidden Fort.

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We aim to look at how weapons and artillery changed, and how castles and forts changed

We use castles a lot in our curriculum, being a local school. So it forms part from year

R right the way up to year 6. We have the children building castles, we have them talking

about castles, we have them learning about the different elements of castles. We link

it to science and D+T where we think about how castles were built, and how they've

We dress in costume so that we give them the feeling of being the characters, it's a

bit like being part of a play. They have puzzles to solve and they can become part of the history.

My favourite part today was being on the Roman side, doing the turtle formation in our charge.

Because it's really educational and it's really fun to have a go at holding shields

I really like it here, its way more fun and I actually enjoy learning here.

I'd highly recommend it, it just brings the learning to life for the children and

they have that hands-on experience and they're the experiences that the children will remember

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Portchester Castle Discovery Visit - Big History: From Dominant Castle to Hidden Fort

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