On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, the Year 3 and 4 children went on a school trip to St Albans, or "Verulamium" as it was called in Roman times! The children visited the Verulamium Museum, where they could explore the many different Roman exhibits on display including some stunning mosaics. All of the children also took part in an artefacts workshop; during which they were able to handle a number of genuine Roman artefacts and work as archaeologists, to decide what the objects can tell us about life in Roman Verulamium. The children liked discovering what each object was for, although they were not impressed with the idea of eating snails, or with the object that the Romans used instead of toilet roll!

After eating lunch in the park in the glorious sunshine, the children walked up the hill to see one more large mosaic that has been left in situ, where you can even see the remains of the Roman hypocaust system (underfloor heating) running under the mosaic. The children were great ambassadors for the school and the museum staff were very impressed with how much the children knew about Roman Britain.