On Wednesday 3rd February primary four visited Edinburgh Castle to find out more about castle life and Mary Queen of Scots for their castle topic. Although it was very chilly at the castle we had a super time and learned lots from our tour guide Calum. As we were visiting the castle in the afternoon we were lucky enough to hear the one o’clock gun!
We had fun learning about the castle’s defences and got to try lifting some of Mons Megs’ cannonballs, but as you can imagine they were far too heavy! We saw the Great Hall where big banquets would have taken place and also the dungeons where prisoners of war were kept. We even learned how people went to the toilet back in medieval times and it wasn’t very nice, we can assure you! We were able to spot various plaques on the castle walls that told us that Edinburgh Castle was a royal castle. We even found a plaque that comemorated the year that Mary Queen of Scots and her husband Henry Stuart had their son James in the castle.
Before we left we got to see some chainmail, armour and swords that soldiers would have used in battle and we even dressed up as different people that would have lived in or worked for the castle in medieval times. Don’t we all look lovely? We hope you enjoy the photographs of our trip.
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Oh My Goodness! That looks like so much fun!!
What a great trip! Love the outfits – you make a really impressive looking knight Thea!
P4 – you look great!
What a lot of fun you must have had.
And well done to Miss Allan for doing such a good job of putting it all on the blog for everyone to see.
We learnt how they did the toilet in those days and it wasn’t pretty!
I loved it when we got to dress up and learned what the people that we were dressed up as done in a castle.
The one clock gun was cool. I learnt about Mary Queen of Scots.
I had a lot of fun at Edinburugh castle especialy at the devils
hole where prisoners tried to escape.
I thought it was very very good even though there was lots of waking . I learnd a lot about castle for e.g there was a moat around the castle in the medieval days so the enames of the castle could not get in . It was really chilly on wenesday .We got to see the one o’clock gun.
My favorite part about Edinburgh Castle was dressing up as a maid with Abbie McNee.I also liked the room we had our lunch in.
By Katie Walshe p4
I realy liked when the one oclock gun went off!!!
I loved dressing up in all the armour even though I did look a bit silly.
I really enjoyed going into the ‘Devils Elbow’ and getting dresed up as a queen!
I also enjoyed watching the 1 o’clock gun go off.
I learned about Mary Queen of Scots & Mons Meg.
IT WAS SO FUN AT EDINBURGH CASTLE!!!!!
I loved the Devil’s Elbow.
I had a lot of fun at Edinbrugh Castle . I liked the one o’clock gun it was cool . I liked the devil’s elbow.
I liked the one o’clock gun, it was loud.
The one oclock gun was cool.It was funny when Calum dressed Thea as a knight.
I liked the one o’clock gun. I liked the hole the prisoners made to try and escape.
I learnt that every family castle has a royal bage.I liked when I
seen the great hall and the hole that the prisoers hole that
they made to escape.I liked being at Edinbrugh Castle!
see thea giting in dresing up and to see the toilets and . I loved it .
I enjoyed being at Edinburgh castle. I liked going down to the dungens.I also enjoyed learning about mary queen of scots.
I think that edinbrugh castle was so much fun that I want to go back on da again .Calum was a great tour gide he was like a book about castles .We got to see the one o’clock gun go of it was very loud . We went to see the dungons I think if I was in the dungons in madieval days I would not cop one little bit .It was very chilly out side on wednasday the 3rd of february. Then we all went to the great hall it was hot in the great hall and that was were all the party’s got holded in . Now it is got sords and wepons in it for desiplay . There was a balken for the band it was called minstrels .Then we went to devils elbow and up there was the tolits and an eascap hole for prisoners to eascap but they just fell down the cliff and then we went to a room were the was grifet on the fire place what is still there after a wiel we dressed up in dress , jokers , minstrels and lots lots more . Then it wass time to go back to school and everyone enjoyed it . It was a wounder full trip and i thought is great fun going to edinbrugh castle and really want to go back . Thank you miss allen for tacking us to edinbrugh castle .
Thea is looking cool with the armare on (:
I really enjoyed it and i loved seeing the hole where the prisoners dug when they tryed to escape.