Y3 - Fossils

Year 3 and Year 4 had a really enjoyable visit from the Hertford Museum team on Wednesday.

Year 3 children had the opportunity to see and touch a variety of different igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks during their 'Fossils Rock' workshop. The children were particularly interested in the Hertfordshire pudding stone and told Tina all about it at lunchtime so she very kindly brought us our very own sample that her husband had ploughed up from the local fields!  They were also able to handle several different fossils, such as ammonites, coral, ferns, a section of tree trunk and bark, sea creatures and even some fossilised poo, which we discovered has its very own fossil name - coprolite! The  most spectacular fossil we saw was a megalodon's tooth - it was huge and very, very old! The children learnt such a lot from being able to handle these objects and observe them so closely.