Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe clothing and tools used by a knight when defending a castle in the past, shared reading texts to describe some of the performed in a castle in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants and a template to record some of the clothing and pieces of equipment used by a knight in the past to provide protection to the inhabitants.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore some of the different ways that a castle could be protected from an attack in the past.

This lesson is part of a history scheme of work to get the children to identify, describe and record some of the special ways that castles were built and inhabited by different groups of people in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.