Key Stage One : History : Castle Life : Lesson Three – Castle Jobs


This history teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to identify, record and describe different jobs and activities that took place in a castle in the past. The class can write a diary entry as a castle cook describing their roles and responsibilities when working in a castle.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify, record and describe different jobs and activities that took place in a castle in the past

Learning Objectives

Identify differences between ways of life at different times. Recall and present historical information.

Learning Outcomes

I can say how people worked in the past is the same or different as today. I can write in character to say what happened in the past.

Castle Jobs

Teaching sequence to help the children identify, record and describe different jobs and activities that took place in a castle in the past

Army Captain

Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children describe a job that was performed in a castle in the past

Court Jester

Shared reading text for whole class discussion to help the children describe a job that was performed in a castle in the past

Castle Diary Word Bank

Vocabulary word bank to help the children write a diary to describe a type of job that was performed in a castle in the past

Castle Cook (support)

Template to help the children structure and format a diary entry to describe a type of job that was performed in a castle in the past

Castle Jobs

Interactive activity to help the children identify, record and describe different jobs and activities that took place in a castle in the past

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to identify, record and describe different jobs and activities that took place in a castle in the past

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