Worksheets

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Mood Board

Use your mood board to plan your

story or poem.

Record words, ideas, sketches

and doodles.

Arch

Sketch the view through an archway

Shield

Scavenger Hunt

Record your special Pembroke Castle finds in the

boxes.

The Inner GateThe Inner Gate is no longer visible. Search for clues, can you see where it once stood?

Sketch what you think it would have looked like.

Inner Curtain WallImagine you were stood here many years ago. What would you have seen, smelt and heard?

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1Explore the castle and have a go at each of the activities.

What do you think you will find?

A tour of the

castle

ChapelUse all of your senses and create a list of words and ideas to describe the chapel.

Western HallInvent a new feature for this room. It could be functional, defensive or decorative. 3

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Great KeepWalk around the outside of the Great Keep and count all the windows, doorways, arrow slits and holes.5

The WoganExplore the echoes created in the cave. Make sounds using different parts of your body or sing a simple echo song.

Tally

ChanceryWrite three important rules that encourage people to take care of the castle.

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Great Hall What do you think happened in the Great Hall? Act out a scene or role play a day in it’s life. 8

Norman HallSearch for clues. Imagine a hustling and bustling Norman Hall in the past. Sketch the scene.7

Great GatehouseLook at carefully at the banquet and spot the differences. Find five things that are different from the way we eat today. Explain how they are different.

Now find five things that are the same.11

Dungeon TowerRead the panel about John Whitmore in the Dungeon Tower. Write five fascinating facts you have learnt.

If you met him today what would you ask him?10

Monkton TowerMarch along the wall-walk to the Westgate Tower and journey through time. Along the way imagine the grisly battles and sieges that took place.

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Henry VII TowerImagine the scene. Margaret is a widow aged only 13. She is far away from home and she gives birth to a son during a bitterly cold winter. What do you think she is thinking? How does she feel? Write a diary entry as Margaret on the night she gave birth to Henry. 12

28th January, 1457

Make a list of all your favourite things about your visit to Pembroke Castle.

The BarbicanInfiltrate the castle. Stealthily find a way through the barbican. You may be wounded and you need to be quick. How do you get through the solid door? How do you avoid the arrows overhead? How do you break through the portcullis?15

St Anne’s BastionStep into the role of one of the five Earls of Pembroke. You may have bumped into them as you explored the castle.

Stay in character as you explore the rest of the castle and answer any questions put to you as the Earl of Pembroke.

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