No prep needed. This complete castles unit gives you six pupil booklets, an assessment and a teacher guide with every answer. Print, hand out, teach. Pupils label an original motte and bailey diagram, design a castle to a brief, and find out why King John needed forty fat pigs.

What’s included
• Lesson 1: William’s Castle Builders (why the Normans built over 500 castles)
• Lesson 2: Motte and Bailey (labelling, strengths and weaknesses)
• Lesson 3: From Wood to Stone (keeps, walls, barbicans, concentric castles)
• Lesson 4: Who’s the King of the Castle? (rooms, people and a builder’s brief)
• Lesson 5: Under Siege: Rochester 1215 (weapons, undermining, the pigs)
• Lesson 6: Review and Assessment (30 marks, with mark schemes)
• Teacher guide: answers, level mark schemes, model answers, feedback bank, picture guide

Why teachers love it
• Self-contained lessons: ideal for non-specialists and cover
• ★ ★★ ★★★ tasks, sentence starters and word banks for mixed ability
• Builds source and extended-writing skills ready for GCSE
• Original diagrams, sources and activities: nothing copied from a textbook
• A perfect partner for a castle visit
• Editable Word documents