Miss Henderson and Mr Whitton's 2nd year pupils in the
English Department are currently involved in the creation of a DVD about
the Romans and their influence upon local people around the Kinnneil
area. The target audience for this project will be primary 4 pupils.
The pupils will be able to access the DVD whenever they visit Kinneil
where the Roman Fort stood and learn something about how the Romans
lived and worked in an entertaining way through a series of monologues
and drama scripts written and performed by Bo'ness Academy pupils themselves.
When Roman soldiers went on the march they carried shields
and were trained to go into "tortoise" formation on the shout
of "Testudo" to prevent being hit and injured by enemy attack.
Testudo means tortoise which is the shape seen when the call went out.
Pupils practised putting the shields into the correct shape then were
marched round the rugby pitch by Centurian Gillespie who made them practice
the routine until perfect
