Year 7 trip to Warwick Castle

Accounts written by: Preet and Grace in year 7

An account of attacking Warwick Castle by Preet E

Dear Diary,

Today is my 10th birthday and my village is joining with the other Anglo-Saxon villages to attack the Normans; I am extremely excited; I have been training three hours a day, But I am sad to be leaving my mother and sister to fight but I am going with my Dad and I will be supporting my village. I am now geared up in my amour. I have sharpened my arrows and packed an extra bow. Now we are heading to the castle. It will be a 3 hour walk but I get to fight at the end. We have finally arrived at the tall walls of the enemy castle. I am exhausted but I must go fight them; Norman’s are already firing arrows. Now that we have arrived, the nerves are getting to me. I was called to the nearest Mantlet, I got as close to the arow slit as I could, then drew back my arrow and let go, it hit one of the solders atop the first wall, they fell to the ground I felt overjoyed, but it did not last long pushing the Mantlet was a young boy around my age but he got hit I felt so sad as he fell then I hit the soldier whom killed the young boy. I dropped my bow and ran to the handle I push the mantlet as near to the wall as I could I graded my spare bow and began to shoot I hit almost all of the row on the top wall, but they just kept coming though, just kept shooting. Soon a small group of Saxons got to the top of the wall they began taking out. I tried to help, but it was hard to avoid my team, so I helped to pull the ladder over and climbed to the very top wall instead. So, the whole bottom row of Normas was killed but only 1 Saxon.

I’m exhausted dirty and bloody but alive!

Yours Gorg C.

An account by Grace L, about defending the castle in 1068.

Dear Diary,

Today at Warwick Castle, we were attacked and we had to defend our castle. We did this by preparing our arrows and loading up the trebuchet. Since our castle walls are so high and thick, they found it impossible to break in. In addition, we had the moat which they would not want to get stuck in because it would be hard to get out and full of poo! So, if they got stuck in it, they would smell! To be extra careful we fired our arrows and pushed the siege ladders down. Some of them managed to get through but we poured burning hot oil and sand through the murder holes on to them and we made sure that our portcullis was safely down. This way we could defend and keep our precious belongings and castle safe so no one could destroy or attack it and our soldiers and people who couldn’t fight were all safe!

Speak again soon

Gaston (Norman Soldier)