Roman Day

Roman Day

Class 2 spent a day at Farway School for the Roman Roadshow and a magnificent Roman feast. The day started with a range of activities run by the Seaton Hoard group: an archaeological dig where the children hunted for Roman artefacts; a closer look at the Seaton Down hoard coins; meeting a Roman soldier and a range of Roman games to try.

At lunch time we paused for a quick change of costume and settled down for the Roman feast. Each school in the federation had prepared different dishes which looked great. The children were brave and tried a range of new foods whilst lying down to eat, just like the Romans did!

The afternoon saw the children getting in to Roman life by writing on clay tablets with Miss Moss from Branscombe; building aqueducts, to provide Rome with water with Mrs Redding; and practising army drills, including tortoise formation, with Mr Smith from Farway. 

Thank you very much for the support of you parents for kitting out our young Romans so spectacularly and for the fantastic shields that they came armed with; I think they all learnt a lot from the experience and will remember the day for quite some time.