The students studied the bridges and castles of Newcastle and Morpeth in the UK. They looked at iconic industrial bridges, the materials and designs used to construct them. The children then drew and constructed their own bridges using materials like Lego bricks. They also examined older bridges in Morpeth, some of which had been damaged by flooding, and invited fathers and grandfathers to help build strong bridges. Additionally, they learned about Northumberland's stone castles which are strategically located defensive structures with a rich history, and made castles out of boxes, drawing, and adding details like drawbridges and towers.

1. Architecture in the UK
We studied the bridges of Newcastle as they an iconic
symbols of the industrial heritage of our region. We looked
at the shape of supports for the bridges and the materials
and designs used to construct the bridges and the reasons
for the bridges to be built.
The children drew their own bridges and then set about
constructing them out of a wide range of materials
available in the class from Lego bricks, from wooden
block, paper and card.

2. We looked at the bridges in Morpeth and their design. There are
several older bridges in Morpeth some of which have been dam-
aged with flooding and have been strengthened recently
The Elliot t Bridge
The Tekford Bridge built in1829 by
architect John Dobson who de-
signed buildings in Newcastle
We looked at strong bridges. We invited our dads and
granddads into school to see if they could help us to
build strong bridges.

3. Northumberland has lots of stone built castle that are occupied
and some that are ruined. The are built on sites of defensive
importance and have been known as defensive sites for hun-
dreds of years. The castles have a rich history, featuring in
English and Scottish history a great deal. The fact they still sur-
vive is an indication that they were built in the most suitable lo-
cations and are of the strongest design.
Morpeth
courthouse
building
Bamburgh Castle
on the coast of
Northumberland.

4. We made castles in variety of ways. The children built castles
using large boxes, they drew castles in the school yard and
looked at pictures of castles and tried to sketch different parts.
The looked at drawbridges and towers and added them to their
models.