Martello Towers KS2 Topic Pack

A Martello towers topic pack for Key Stage 2 (ages 7 to 11): the tower at Mortella that beat two warships, label a slice through a tower, rooms, stores and the big gun, put-it-in-order and before-or-after-1810 cut-out cards, a true-or-false quiz, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a comic strip, a colouring page, a certificate and full answers.

What’s inside:

- Teacher page: how the pack fits KS2 history (Department for Education wording)

- Towers by the sea: four starter facts

- The tower that beat two warships: reading and questions (our own drawing)

- Label the Martello tower: a slice through a tower (our own drawing)

- Inside a tower: rooms, stores and a big gun, reading and questions

- Put it in order: four cut-out date cards

- Before 1810 or 1810 or later? Twelve cut-out sorting cards

- True or false quiz

- Crossword where every answer is a real fact

- Word search

- Comic strip to draw

- Gun colouring page

- Martello Tower Explorer certificate

- Answer key

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 17 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink. The KS2 order and sorting cards are meant to be cut out.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, Royal Museums Greenwich, Parks Canada, the James Joyce Tower and the Department for Education (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs, not reconstructions of any real tower, not to scale, and not copied from any site plan, map, guidebook, print, photo or book. Not affiliated with English Heritage, Historic England, Historic Environment Scotland, Royal Museums Greenwich, Parks Canada, UNESCO, the James Joyce Tower, Dublin UNESCO City of Literature, the Landmark Trust, the Friends of Martello24, the Wish Tower Friends, the Seaford Museum and Heritage Society, the UK government or any museum. Their names, and the names of the places they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind martello-towers.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.