On Monday, we all took a trip out to ‘Segedunum’ to find out more about our hot topic ‘Romans’. At first we watched a short video to find out about Hadrian’s Wall, a real roman wall! (Fun fact: Our school is named after Emperor Hadrian! Lillie was amazed!)

After that we got to go and explore the museum, it was great fun dressing like Romans, building our own Hadrian’s wall and reading all about life as a Roman.  There were lots of interesting things to look at, old roman pots, roman money and even Roman shields and swords!

We then ventured outside to see what once was a Roman village! We loved walking around the Roman ruins and reading all the signs about what used to be there. After lunch we had a roman workshop, all about Hadrian’s Wall. We learnt all about how it was built and even try ourselves! The Romans used to have long lines of people and pass each individual brick to each other until it got to the wall, so we did the same thing to build our own! Our acting skills came into play during this activity, as we pretended to be VERY tired Romans with VERY heavy bricks. We had lots of laughs. To finish off we found out about how the Romans used to make baskets, weaving each individual piece of willow between sticks.

To end our day we all went up the observation tower and admired the roman ruins from a far, we each got a pencil and some paper and drew what we could see.

Have a great weekend everyone!