This week, Year 3 children went on a trip to Dorchester Museum and a Roman Townhouse as part of our Romans topic. Once we arrived at the museum, we were invited into the great hall, where the children were greeted by Roman experts. They discussed the impact the Romans had on Dorchester and the whole of Britain before the children were set the task of excavating Roman artefacts from a ‘burial site’.
The children found jewellery, tesserae, roof tiles, and coins during their archaeological dig and used these artefacts to determine what type of person they might have belonged to. After this, the children explored the museum to find out more about Dorchester and learned that the Romans founded the town in 70 AD!
Once they finished exploring the museum the children headed to the entrance hall and learnt about what life was like in the Roman times for different people. The children even had the opportunity to dress up! As you can see they really enjoyed this, each class had children dressed up as Roman soldiers, an emperor, consuls, plebs, farmers and married women.
After we left the museum the children headed to a nearby roman townhouse, whilst at the townhouse they learnt this is the only standing Roman townhouse left in the United Kingdom! Whilst at the townhouse they discovered the Romans invented underfloor heating and decorated their houses with beautiful mosaics.
The children thoroughly enjoyed their trip and constantly asked the experts interesting and challenging questions derived from their hard work in their Roman topic. A huge thank you to all the parent volunteers that came onto the trip with the Year 3 classes this week.
