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Year 7 Storm the Battlements

13th March 2008


Following up work on famous battles and strategies in defence, Year 7 historians were asked to make castles over half term.   They fulfilled their brief with enormous enthusiasm, imagination, application and ingenuity, using a wide range of different materials and a huge variety of different approaches.


 




























             A group of Year 7 pupils stand on parade behind their castles!

The standard was so high that we decided to enter them into a competition.   Mr Colin MacNeal, former Head of History at Beaminster School, judged the entries. 

The overall standard was so good that he had great difficulty in picking out the very best castles but in the end Commendations were awarded as follows:

Emily Francis – Supreme Champion, most realistic castle, best use of combined square and round construction.
Luke Corner – Castle with best defensive measures against a ferocious battering ram.
Laura Coppard – Best use of perspective.
Poppy Denny-Higgins – Most voluptuous interior, best use of colour.
Alison Goodenough – Most cheerful castle, the castle one would most want to live in.
Hannah Rees – Most surreal castle.
Jessica Whittick – Most solidly dramatic castle, best use of material (cardboard).
Yasmin Andrews-Urvoy – Most scarily dramatic castle, strongest and most secure castle.
Philip Bridge – Most minimalist design – clean and simple lines, best use of material (wood).                            
Luca Lepuri – Most massively imaginative use of materials.
Kirby Mullis – Best use of both colour and texture.







The winners bask in sunshine! Left to right - back - Alison Goodenough, Yasmin Andrews-Urvoy, Jessica Whittick, Alison Goodenough, Hannah Rees, Kirby Mullis, Laura Coppard.  Front - Luca Lepuri, Luke Corner, Poppy Denny-Higgins, Philip Bridge.