Year 3 have had a great time learning about the Romans this term. To help our studies we visited the Roman Fort at Arbeia, South Shields. In the morning we learned about the Festival of Saturnalia and made cards to celebrate the day with the greeting " Io Saturnalia". This day is dedicated to the God Saturn and it was the time when the slaves and the masters swopped places.
Ikenna and Luisa were crowned as King and Queen for the day.
After lunch we had a chance to dig with correct archaeological tools and found some buried treasure and artefacts. We had a great day and really enjoyed ourselves and we thought Arbeia was a really excellent Fort.

Then we had a visitor from the Young Enterprise Organisation who taught us all about History for the day. The Topics we covered were The Romans, The Tudors and The Victorians. We did lots of lovely activities and had a smashing day.

After Christmas we are going to try to complete a project of our own choice on an aspect of the Romans.