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Castle Design Through the Ages

Your child can say how castles changed over time, from wooden mounds to strong stone keeps. They can name rooms inside a castle and what each was for.

In curriculum terms

How castles were built and evolved: from wooden motte-and-bailey to stone keeps to concentric castles; rooms and their uses; how castle design responded to new attack methods

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Could your child explain how castles changed over time and describe what different rooms inside a castle were used for?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
What Is a Castle?ages 5–7Must have basic castle knowledge before studying castle evolution and architecture
Battle of Hastings and 1066ages 7–9Norman Conquest triggered major castle-building programme in England
Castle Design Through the Agesthis skill · ages 7–9
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Siege Warfareages 7–9Must understand castle structure before studying how castles were attacked and defended
Art & Architectureages 9–11Castle architecture provides comparison to cathedral architecture

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Curriculum alignment

Where this fits in the official school curriculum — our best automated guess, not yet checked by a person.

This skill sits outside the F–6 Australian Curriculum — no candidate code matched (v0.1). No NSW K–6 outcome code matched (v0.1). No Victorian Curriculum 2.0 code matched (v0.1).

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