Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe how to lay siege to a castle, a set of cards to sequence a set of instructions to show the correct ways of laying siege to a castle and a template to select and record what might be said by different figures during the siege of a castle in the past.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore and record a set of instructions for an army to follow about how to lay siege to a castle in the past.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to investigate and record different ways that castles were constructed and located in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants and local community. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.