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Resources and Visits
This term’s project encompasses all aspects
of the National Curriculum, particularly geography and science.
Thames Foreshore
We visited the Thames Foreshore under Cannon Street Station, with an
archaeologist from The Museum of London. We collected many artefacts
from the riverbed that the current had uncovered,
the earliest being a fragment of Roman pottery. After the fieldwork
we analysed our finds back at the museum.
National Maritime Museum
We took a boat from Bankside Pier to Greenwich, spotting wildlife along
the way (cormorants, herons, ducks, geese, swans, and of course pigeons!)
A curator of the museum had put on display especially for us an oil
painting that isn’t on public view, ‘The Thames and Greenwich
Hospital by Moonlight’ by Henry Pether.
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Mapledurham Watermill
There has been a watermill at Mapledurham from before the time of
the Domesday Book, and it is the last working corn grist mill on the
Thames. We each bought a bag of freshly milled flour which we later
made into bread at school.
Thames Barrier Learning Centre
The children played The River of Life Game and went on a river walk.
Extract from a child’s
Thames Foreshore trip report
We walked to the Museum of London. Mike the archaeologist showed us
how to be an archaeologist. We sorted materials, bone, rock, tile,
plastic. He said there is a lot of bones there because butchers used
to always be by the river because they could wash the blood away.
We went to the foreshore and I found a bone [and] crockery saying
‘…rom…’ like that. On the way there we went
past a tributary the Romans put in pipes. On the foreshore I found
a pig’s shoulder bone. I found three freshwater shrimps (water
vacuum cleaners). We found crabs and tubifex worms. I found some clay
pipes. I also found a lot of Victorian pottery. It was blue and white.
We didn’t find any Roman coins
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