BBC Teach | Castles and Knights: The Features of a Castle | History | BBC Teach @bbcteach | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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In this episode Sally shows Fatima and Harry the main features of a castle. It is a stimulus for a range of activities, in particular for showing changes beyond living memory ('What was life like for people who lived in castles?')

During the animation the characters explore a number of castles - including Warwick Castle and Edinburgh Castle - which is useful for schools in these regions wanting to teach ‘significant places in their locality’.

The castle features that Sally shows Fatima and Harry include:

- the significance of location (eg on top of a hill)
- external features - such as towers battlements, thick walls, a moat, a drawbridge, etc
- internal features - such as a well, large stores to guard against siege, a hall for everyone to socialise.

This film is relevant for teaching History at KS1 in England, Wales and Northern Ireland and 1st Level in Scotland.

This clip is from the the series Castles and Knights on BBC Teach: bbc.co.uk/teach/class-clips-video/history-ks2-castles-and-knight-home/z2w4bqt

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