Pencaitland Primary Blog

 To finish off our Mary, Queen of Scots project P5 had a day out of class to visit Holyrood Palace and Edinburgh Castle.  Our first stop was the Palace.  After a short introduction, where P5 showed they had remembered a lot of what they had learnt, we started our tour.  We saw the Grand Staircase. the dining room where the current Queen eats when she is in residence, the Drawing Rooms, the Great Hall (with 97 portraits - it acts as the family tree of Mary, Queen of Scots), Mary’s bedroom, Lord Darnley’s (her second husband) bedroom and most importantly to a number of us the room where David Riccio was killed. We spent some time in the activity room, had lunch and then moved to the castle.After a talk on how the Castle fitted into Mary’s life we visited the room where her son James was born and the Great Hall, with its many weapons and Mary’s Coat of Arms. After this we went to the Education Room where we tried on costumes representative of that era. We also saw replica artifacts and had fun trying to guess what they were used for. We all thoroughly enjoyed the day (much better than Maths and Language!) and have learnt even more about Mary, Queen of Scots from seeing these things up close and personal!