PARENTS

Year 9 visited the Roman Baths in Bath, an important social and religious site. The Cambridge Latin Course is set in Bath and the girls enjoyed seeing curse tablets and the altar set up by a character in the course, a haruspex called Lucius Marcius Memor. A teaching session explained why Bath was such an important site and how information could be extracted from the evidence left behind. Both genuine artefacts and reconstructions could be handled, such as wall plaster, a brooch, a glass bottle for carrying olive oil and a strigil or scraper that the Romans used to clean themselves. This was followed by a fascinating audio tour of the Baths.

Mrs Baird said ‘The layout of the Roman Baths has been made more accessible and it is even easier to imagine the Baths in use almost 2000 years ago. It is very exciting that our own Mrs Dicks has been asked to prepare the new Latin Resources Pack for the Roman Baths museum. Her tombstone decoder is regularly used by Latin teachers to help pupils decipher the information found on Roman tombstones.'