This week, we concluded our detailed study of Pompeii and the Bay of Naples by carrying out a carousel of different research activities linked to the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in AD79. Children used a variety of different resources - including the eyewitness reports of Pliny, different reference books, maps and paintings, and photographs of modern Pompeii to piece together a timeline of events beginning in August AD79, passing through the discovery of the buried city in the 1700s, to the more recent eruption of Vesuvius in the 1940s, and finally culminating in Pompeii's position today as a centre for archaeological research and tourism.
The children really enjoyed the opportunity to find out information for themselves about this fascinating Roman city that is forever 'frozen in time.'
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