As ‘Montessorians’ we built our own Roman Arch machine. This allows a student to build her or his own arch – remove the ‘centring’ or falsework that supports the arch during construction and… actually pass under their own Roman Arch!

The voussoirs are already in position

Work starts on the abutments...

and continues

The building work is complete

Next the excitement of removing the supporting structure and seeing if our arch worked!

Result! Our own functioning Roman Arch.