Motte and Bailey Castles

Learning objective: How did William use castles to keep control of England?

The starter task is to do a back to back drawing of a Motte and Bailey castle using the image on the worksheet.

The main task is to describe the castle and there is level criteria which can be amended and example answers and sentence starters.

The end task is to consider how the castles would help William to keep control and then to suggest improvements that could be made to the Motte and Bailey castle with explanations for these.