Year 1/2
Homework Menu Summer 1: Conquests and Castles
Due date: Thursday 21st May
Children should complete at least one activity a week. The suggested homework is in bold writing. Otherwise the children can of course complete as many
of the homework choices as they like!
What do I know and
understand?
Look at pictures of castles in
books or on the internet.
Can I apply and show what
I know?
Tell someone in your family
what you know about castles.
What can I question, compare
and analyse?
Prepare a set of questions you
might ask someone who lived in
a castle a long time ago.
I enjoy working
with numbers
Draw a castle with 6 turrets.
Draw a range of castles. Can
you make them all different?
Research different sorts of
castles.
I enjoy being
scientific
Talk about what I know about
castles.
Give reasons as to why a castle
might have high walls.
Follow the design for your flag
and make it using fabric.
I enjoy painting,
drawing and
visualising
I enjoy being
active and doing
hands-on
activities
Look at a range of flags. How
are they different?
Design and colour a flag.
Look at 2 different castles.
How are they different? Make
a list to compare them.
Design and make a shield.
Go to the library and borrow a
book about castles.
Imagine that you are a knight.
What would you wear? What
would you do?
Research the castles that the
Queen owns. What are they
called? Where are they? How
many rooms are there? How
are they different to each
other?
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Create and colour your own
your own jester.
I enjoy reading,
writing and
speaking
Points per
activity
2
4
What can I create?
Write a story about a King or
Queen that live in a castle.
Include what they might do in a
day.
Create a picture of a castle
using different 2D shapes.
Use junk modelling to create a
castle.
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Can I evaluate and make
judgements?
Find out about Nottingham
castle. Why was it built? Who
lived there? What is it used for
today?
Find out how many people may
have worked in a castle.
Investigate the different sorts
of jobs there may have been in
a castle.
Make a castle with a moving
drawbridge.
Choose a castle that you have
researched and describe in
detail how you could improve
it.
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