History Study Visits
Fishbourne Roman Palace
In November Year 3 joined Year 7 for a day at Fishbourne, nearChichester. After looking at the remains of the palace and the wonderful mosaics, they went to a workshop where they dressed up as Romans, worked as slaves in the kitchen, played Roman board games or made mosaics, practised Roman writing and had a go at building Roman arches. 
On Thursday 4th November, Years 3 and 7 went to Fishbourne Roman Palace near Chichester. When we went inside, we wandered around and saw some Roman mosaics and also a real skeleton from a later period when the palace had been abandoned. Then we went to do some workshops. Our class,
7P, learnt how Roman bridges were constructed and how they stayed strong for nearly two thousand years. Then the two classes switched workshops so now we were learning about Roman food. We ate Roman bread; some olives in a tangy sauce; what seemed to be like an apricot jam and we drank red coloured juice that tasted a lot like Ribena, which was the equivalent of sweet red wine. Then we were taken to watch a DVD which was quite interesting telling us how the palace was discovered, when it was built, who lived in it and how it was destroyed. Then we wandered around the gardens and visited the original gardener’s shed! After that we went to a building workshop and tried to identify real parts of the building and work out how they were used. Next, we were organised into groups to work on our selected projects.
Charis Hubbard
Salisbury Cathedral
On Monday 23rd May Year 7 went to Salisbury Cathedral with Mrs. Goodman, Mrs. Raumann and Mrs. Bolden. While we were there, we made gargoyles, climbed to the top of the tower and stood on the balcony at the top. When we made gargoyles I made one with a really long tongue that stuck out really far.
Max Dooley
When we arrived, we went into the nave and saw the font. The top was what looked to be glass but it wasn’t - it was the most still water I’ve ever seen. Just a week before a lady had put her handbag on it thinking that it was a solid table. Of course it sank!
Lewis Rowe
I enjoyed the walk up the tower the most. We stopped a few times on the way up and learnt a lot about the things we looked at. We first looked at how the roof was made and we were lucky to be in the bell tower as the bells went off. We then went up another two flights of stairs to find we were at the top. When we got there, we saw a Guinness Book of World Records which said Salisbury Cathedral has the tallest spire in the UK. We stood outside the tower on small balconies to look at the view. Then we were showed how they would have carried up the stone to build the Cathedral with an enormous hamster wheel. You could go higher into the spire but only by ladders, so we did not go any higher. We all got a badge that said we had reached the height of heights. Then we went to see the most well preserved of all the four existing copies of the Magna Carta.
Abi Heath