Having learnt all about the gunpowder plot during our topic lessons, we attended court to find out more with lots of us taking on the roles of the main characters.
Not only is this a fun way of extending our knowledge, but it also helps us with our writing. We thought about what questions we’d like to ask the different people involved in the story and what their answers would have been at the time.
The suspects: Guy Fawkes, Robert Catesby, Thomas Percy, John Wright
The witnesses: Mary Arkwright, Arthur Coniston, Lorn Monteagle, King James I 
The prosecution and the defence
The jury
The media
At times, the prosecution really put pressure on our suspects!