Year 7 shields

All of Year 7 have been set their shields homework in preparation for marching around the tennis courts and taking part in some real Roman drill. My classes have the instructions for making the shields glued into their planners with the date they are due (6th Nov for 7H2 and 8th November for 7S1). 

Some pictures of good shields from last year:

And a couple of tips:
- poster paint works just as well as any other kind of paint

- a thick coat of hairspray works the same as varnish (it's just to stop the paint from running if it rains on their way to school)

- people last year got unwanted cardboard from supermarkets and electrical shops, hoover and fridge boxes are good

- when the shields come to school, they can't go to lessons so need to be brought to their usual history classroom before the start of the school day (even 7H2 who I'm teaching first period)

- they really need their names and forms on the back somewhere, all of Y7 are doing it at the same time and all the shields look incredibly similar!!

Good luck, any problems see/phone me in the history department. 

Miss Webster's adventures

For those who have done our Year 8 Elizabeth topic, I saw this armour at the National Armoury in Leeds. It's what Dudley (the one who may have killed his wife) had made specially for the night he met Elizabeth I.