Italy Project today!

See us at work on our Italy Project today!!


Here we are doing a quiz on Ancient Rome and working on the blog!!



See our busy classroom


We are also building the Colosseum.


This is us working on a volcanic seisometer and trapdoors for the gladiators to come through in the Colosseum.

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Roman soldiers by Giggles

This Legionary is armed with the standard equipment given to all Roman soldiers at the time of the Empire. He is wearing a helmet with cheek guards, a shoulder strap or baldric guard, a sword in a scabbard, tunic made of wool, a groin guard, a segmented breastplate or cuirass, a shield and belts made of leather (but soldiers often decorated them)
By Giggles and B612

The New Zealand eruption

In June 10th 1886,shortly after midnight earhquakes are felt in Te Warioa and Rotorua in New-Zealand.At around 1:30am there is a violent earthquakes followed by the sound of an explosion.Sleepy reisidents look in terror across the lake to see Tarawera Wahanga dome,exploding into life.the eruption cloud was about 9.5km high and easily visible ,being lit up by the mountain`s continuing eruption and accompaning lighting storm. I got this info from www.Anheizen.com
By Smiley and Bubbles

What is a seisometer?

A seisometer is a machine that you put on a volcano.It measures its sound so you know when it it going to erupt.Mt.Vesuvius has a seisometer.It needs one because there are over one and a half million people living in the "danger zone" in Pompeii. Volcanoes are either:active,extinct or dormat.
By Smiley



Ocean-bottom Seisometer (OBS)
An Ocean-Bottom Seisometer is a aluminium sphere of about 17 inches and are often bright orange or yellow in colour.Generally found on the seabed,but sometimes can break free from their anchorings and can drift ashore,but they pose no danger to the public or wildlife in the area.The seisometer is commonly used as a geoghysical instrument and are used in the Irish sea to measure movements in the oceanic plates.
By Smiley