Year 7 went storming Norwich Castle

Over the last week year 7 have all been out to Norwich Castle to learn more about the time when it was stormed in 1216 by rebels who wanted to overthrown King John. As well as learning about history year 7 also got the chance to show off their maths skills over the course of the day.

Over the course of the day students took part in four sessions as follows

Siege Life

Year 7 got to investigate the water supply in the well and calculate how much water was available to those defending the castle.

 They got to handle and assess a variety of medieval objects

They also played medieval strategic games;

Siege weapons

Students got to handle, measure and assess weapons used to attack and defend a castle;

 Siege financing 

 Students planned and calculated a budget for the siege

 
They got to strike their own coins

measuring the keep
 The students learnt about medieval measurements and used them to measured the keep to calculate its scale.

All in all we had a brilliant day. Thank you to Norwich Castle and their wonderful staff for organising everything for us and running such brilliant sessions. A huge thanks too for our lovely finance department for booking everything and sorting paperwork so we could go out.