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Egyptian Workshop

on 11/01/2019

Today we had another visit from Catherine Hammond to get our new History Topic, Ancient Egypt, off to a flying start. We observed and researched artefacts:

We then presented our findings:

And drew conclusions to work out who was buried in the tomb:

Catherine really had us thinking like archaeologists!


21 Responses to “Egyptian Workshop”

  1. Joshua says:

    Today we had another visit from Catherine. She spoke to us about the Ancient Egyptians.
    First of all, we were given objects from the pyramids. These included scarab beetles, necklaces and a pot which had different animal lids that represented gods. I had a scarab beetle. A scarab beetle was put on a mummy in a tomb to help the body go to the afterlife. When the scarab beetles are born , they crack out of the dung and the Ancient Egytians thought that this was a symbol of new life. We presented our objects to the rest of the class and spoke about what they were, what they were used for a who wore them.
    Catherine wrote all of our objects on the white board with headings of man, woman, boy and girl. She then told us who had the objects and some of the items were worn by more than one person. Catherine put a tick in the column depending on who wore or used the jewellery, pots or comb. In the end, the women column had the most ticks and they were buried with the majority of the objects we all spoke about as a class, in their tomb.
    I really enjoyed Catherine’s visit and hope she returns next term too!

  2. Oliver says:

    Egyptian Workshop By Oliver G

    Today we had Catherine return to tell us about Ancient Egypt. I found it really interesting, especially when we got to feel the ancient objects!

    I was really surprised that my object was a hair curler; I thought Egyptians had straight hair!! I didn’t realise that Scarab beetles were a good luck charm as I thought that they were harmful! When Catharine told us that Matthews’ object really was a make-up brush I assumed it was only for woman but I was wrong – as men wore make up too! Connor and I had to guess who owned the object and we thought it would be a Queen.

    I really liked this particular workshop and I will keep loving it. I would like to go to Egypt one day.

    Thank you Catherine.

  3. Luca M says:

    Egyptian Work Shop

    Today Catherine came to visit year 4 to talk about the history of Eygptian artefacts discovered from the tombs. She talked about the Egyptologist and told us how they discovered artefacts and treasure. She told us about how the tombs were robbed of there artefacts and treasure and how the Egyptologist found this out and were unable to retrieve the artefacts.

    Noah ,Shay and myself were given one pot and 4 lids. Noah found out one lid had a bit of gold and I did too. Shay found out that on the pot there were hieroglyphics. When Josh came with his object he saw the hieroglyphics were the same on both object’s.

    Then we researched about the object’s, we found out that they put organs inside of the pots. For example, liver and lungs were put inside because they believed they would use them in the afterlife.

    Jenson and Adnan got a comb, Josh and Cian got servant statues and Oliver and Connor got a curler knife.

    Learning about the Egyptian artefacts was really fun and I hope Catherine enjoyed listening to our discoveries in class.

  4. Max M says:

    On Friday we had a workshop on the Egyptians. It was really interesting to learn so many fun facts about the Egyptians. I learnt how all the mummies were buried with all their treasure and gold. My favourite part was when we got to examine all the replicas. Catherine gave all of us one item and then we had to decide if it belonged to a boy or girl. Valentino and I were given a necklace with lots of little clay balls and metal chains. At first I thought it was a boy then I changed my mind to a girl. In the end it turned out to be a girl. I really enjoyed the workshop and I hope Catherine comes back.

  5. Zachary F says:

    Today we had an Egyptian workshop. Catherine came from the museum with a model of an Egyptian pyramid with objects inside.
    First Catherine gave out the objects that were replicas of ancient artefacts. Catherine let us guess what our object was and what is was used for. Ishaan and I had a small statue of a cat and we found out it was called a Bastet. This is a goddess who protects women. We made a chart and we were thinking like archaeologists to find if the tomb belonged to a boy, a girl, a man or a woman. We were given a sheet that said what our object was and what it was used for. Then we got to present our object to the class. We listened to everyone talk about their object and finally discovered the tomb belonged to a woman.
    My favourite object was the canopic jar because they were used to put the organs in when they mummified the body and that sounded very strange!

  6. Oluwadara says:

    The Egyptian workshop
    Catherine Hammond came to our school again but this time to do a workshop on the Egyptians. The archaeologists who are in Egypt are called Egyptologists. Mrs Hammond gave out the objects. We were trying to figure out who was buried in the pyramid. Max P and I got the replica of the Anubis statue. Anubis was a jackal (a jackal is a sort of dog) and the Egyptians thought that jackals appeared in graveyards so Anubis was helping the people get to the afterlife. The most surprising thing for me was that men wore makeup! If you were a child you would shave your head but you would leave a ponytail. This was called the lock of youth. The person who was buried in the pyramid was…a woman! I really enjoyed the workshop and I can’t wait to find out more about the Egyptians.

  7. Alec says:

    EGYPTIAN WORKSHOP
    On Friday Catherine came to Lochinver to teach us about Ancient Egypt. We got to hold and see lots of objects and artefacts from Ancient Egyptian times. Many of the objects were copies as I suppose the original ones would just crumble to dust in our hands and anyway Catherine said her museum didn’t have any so they had to borrow some.
    I got to hold a menat that is a kind of pendant made of metal to hold a necklace around the neck. They were mostly worn by rich people because they were heavy necklaces and only the rich and royals could afford expensive jewellery.
    We were pretending to be archaeologists and it was fun detective work trying to work out who the objects would belong to.
    All the objects would be put in the tomb with the dead Egyptian to make it better from them in the afterlife.
    I really enjoyed this workshop and I would give Catherine a free pass to a good afterlife!
    My favorite fact was when Catherine told us that if you were an Egyptologist doing detective work on Ancient Egypt you would be there all your life as there are so many things to discover.
    Thank you Catherine it was really good fun and you share so many things with us about so many times in history. I wonder what is your favorite time in history and what you will show us next time.

  8. Ishaan says:

    Today Catherine Hammond came and talked to us about Egyptians. She showed us a pyramid model which had replica treasures such as a comb, make up knife, hair curler, canopic jars and a Bastet cat statue inside it. We had to work out whether a boy, girl, man or woman was buried using clues from the treasures inside the pyramid.
    We were then put into pairs; each pair were given some pieces of treasures. Me and Zachary’s treasure was a Bastet Cat. She was the ancient Egyptian goddess of protection, and cats. She was the daughter of Ra, the sun god, protecting and defending the pharaoh. A statue of a Bastet cat was put in the tomb to protect the woman in the afterlife. We finally presented what we learnt to the rest of the class.
    My highlight from this workshop was learning about the different Egyptian Treasures such as Bastet Cat and Canopic Jar which were very interesting artefacts. I was surprised to learn that men, boys and girls wore make up and children were bold with one strip of lock of hair called the ‘Lock of youth’ in the Egyptian times.
    I am very eager to understand more about living during the Ancient Egyptian time. I hope Catherine comes again

  9. Yuri says:

    On Friday the 11th of January 2019 Catherine Hammond came again to teach us about the Egyptians. Catherine brought a model pyramid with treasures in it like a necklace, menat, comb, make up knife and a doll and lots more things, but nothing was real. We were in pairs or a group of three and we each had objects. We had to do a good guess of what it was or what it was used for. We had to guess what it was and what it was for, we had to do this so we could find out whether a man, woman a boy or a girl were buried in the model pyramid. We took turns to talk about other Egyptian objects we were given to help us decide. Most of the objects were the ones that would be used by a woman, so we knew it was a woman who was buried in a model pyramid. The Egyptian cat protected women from evil, so this was another clue that it was a woman because there was Bastet-cat in that pyramid.
    There was also a doll in the pyramid – it was buried with the person so that in afterlife, they could use it to turn them into a child if they died of an illness or old age.
    I look forward to seeing Catherine again so she can teach us more interesting things about other cultures.

  10. Jenson says:

    Yesterday we had another visit from Catherine, this time it was about the Ancient Egyptians. At first we were all given an object from the Ancient Egyptian times between two, Adnan and I got a comb. We had a look at the comb and saw it had three ducks on it. When we got the sheet that described the comb we saw that the ducks represented the sun.
    From a previous lesson with Catherine we learnt that in the Tudor period they wore more clothes to show how wealthy they were but it would be too hot for the Egyptians so they showed wealth by wearing lots of jewellery.
    The main part of the session was set around us being archaeologists. Catherine was telling us about how archaeologists made assumptions but this was the wrong thing to do. They should have observed the objects, then tried to think what the object could be and then finally research what they think the object was.
    Thank you Catherine for coming in. I can’t wait until Catherine comes back next time !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  11. samuel says:

    Today Catherine gave out objects and she gave me and Raphael the wooden toys and 2 scrabbed beetle bugs. We had to work out what they were, and who was the missing tomb.
    The toys were played with by women and girls, they were wooden snakes and a wooden lady.
    Being a Egyptologist sounds dangerous, because you travel a long way and there might be dangerous creatures when you arrive in Egypt.
    The job includes finding precious jewellery and diamonds and they give it to the museum for us all to enjoy and learn more about Egyptians.

    Catherine brought us one special jar with four heads (canopic jars). In each jar an organ would be placed, such as stomach, intestines, liver and lungs. The heads would be a jackal, monkey, bird and a human.

    There was a tomb in a pyramid with many items that have been found. Catherine did a chart for us all to work out who it all belonged to. It was a lady.

    The pyramids was fascinating because it would take approx. 20 years to build, using over 2 million stone blocks and thousands of workers. The stone at very top is called the capstone.

  12. connor says:

    Egyptian Workshop

    On Friday we had an Egyptian workshop at School with Catherine. She works at the Epping Museum and tells people about the stuff that has been found and dug up out of the ground near to the Museum.

    Catherine told us about the objects in people’s homes. They didn’t have homes like us, they lived in shacks and mud huts on hills near to the river.

    She showed us jars. The Egyptian people put the organ from the dead bodies into the jars, They covered the organs in something to stop them rotting. Each organ was put into a separate jar.

    Egyptologists are the archeologists who in live and study in egypt.

    Hieroglyphs is the language the egyptian people wrote in. Thank you Catherine for the workshop. I really enjoyed it.

  13. Raphael says:

    Egyptian Workshop

    This term our topic is on the Ancient Egyptians. On Friday, Catherine came to Lochinver to talk about the ancient Egyptians. Catherine works for a museum so knows lots about the Egyptians. She brought a mini pyramid with lots of Egyptian artefacts inside. But there was no person! Our task was to research the objects and find out who the person was.

    Everyone was in groups. My group was Samuel and me. Each group was given an object. We had two. Our objects had special patterns on them. My object was dark blue on the outside and white on the inside. Samuel’s object was brown and had beads on strings at the top. We thought they were musical instruments because we banged them together and they made a sound. We found out what they were by looking at a paper with facts of the objects on it. My object turned out to be a Scarab Beetle. Samuel’s object was a Wooden Toy. A Scarab Beetle is a lucky charm. They lay their eggs in animal dung. When the eggs hatch the Egyptians think that it is showing that life can be produced from the wastelands. They also rolled their eggs around to show the sun turning into the moon.

    We presented our objects to the class as a table. Joshua and Cian’s group presented their objects with us. The most interesting object was the canopic jars. The canopic jars were used to store the organs of the body.

    We worked out that the person who was supposed to be in the tomb must have been a woman because all the objects in the tomb were used by women in Ancient Egypt.

    Overall, I loved it.

  14. Adnan says:

    On Friday Catherine visited us, she came in to talk about Ancient Egyptians. Catherine had brought a pyramid with her and she talked about Important people like pharos and what would have been buried with them. Then she said that we could all be archaeologists.

    She opened the pyramid and showed us what things would have been buried with pharos. Some of the items were a make up knife, hair curler, doll, some jars and a comb. We had to find out if a woman, man, boy or girl was buried in the pyramid.
    Catharine gave me and Jenson the comb to look at which also had 3 ducks on it. We were given information to help us find out what the object was. We learnt that the 3 ducks were the sign of the sun.

    I learnt that archaeologists in Egypt are called Egyptologists.

    My favourite bit of Catharine’s work shop was learning who used all the objects, what they were and why they were used. Thank you Catherine I really enjoyed the work shop.

  15. Zach says:

    On Friday Catherine came to visit us again this time to tell us all about the Ancient Egyptians. At the start she gave each pair an object to look at. We were given an Egyptian make-up knife. We were given an information card about our object, which told us some important facts about it. We had to tell the rest of the class all about our object. In Egyption times both men and women wore dark eye make up. They did this to protect their skin from the hot sun. They also wore it to give themselves a better appearance. They believed that makeup would stop the flies and give them protection from infection. I was very surprised that both men and women wore make up and that they wore so much of it.

    Egyptian children were bald and they had one lock of hair called a Lock of youth. I thought that the Egyptians had straight hair but they didn’t always. They used special hair curlers to curl their wigs at night. They used wigs because it was easier than trying to curl their own hair.

    The Egyptians believed in life after death and that it was very important to preserve the human body. When people died their organs were scooped out and put in canopic jars to preserve them. They didn’t remove the heart. They weighed the organs. Heavier organs meant that your after life would not be as good.

    Only rich Egyptians were buried in expensive pyramid tombs, poor ones were buried in the sand.

  16. Shay says:

    Egyptian Workshop

    Today, Catherine Hammond came to talk about the Ancient Egyptians to us. She brought a model pyramid that had lots of replica things inside.

    Firstly, Catherine talked about how the pyramids were robbed and could even be cursed! Then we got to look at some Ancient Egyptian artefacts which are objects. I was grouped with Luca and Noah and we were given canopic jars. Canopic jars are jars that were used to put human organs in. There were four jars and four lids for four different organs which were the stomach, intestines, liver and lungs. The heart was taken out and dried. Then they wrapped the heart up and put it back in the body. They thought that if you did this the jars would protect the organs so you can use them in the afterlife.

    We were asked to look at the jars and make a short presentation about them. We all got fact sheets to help us. We had to find clues to work out whether it was a man, woman, boy or girl buried in the pyramid.

    I learnt lots of interesting facts about the Ancient Egyptians. For example, Egyptian men and women were bald and they wore wigs! Children had one long bit of hair and they cut it off when they were grown up.

    In our presentation we spoke a little bit each. Noah held the box which the lids were in and Luca held the jar while I put the lids on the jars.

    My highlight of the day was getting to hold, touch and feel the artefacts. Thank you Catherine for another exciting, amazing and interesting workshop!

  17. Matthew says:

    I quite liked the Egyptians workshop ,I liked the bit where you had to guess what object it was and my one was really tricky to guess it and supprisingly my one was a makeup knife and men and women they wore make-up for two reasons one to protect their skin from the sun and two to look good ,I also liked the bit where we had to guess who was in the coffin out of a man a lady a boy or a girl and it was a lady.

  18. Valentino says:

    EGYPTIAN WORKSHOP
    Catherine told about the Egyptians. She handed out some objects in a pyramid and I got a necklace that men and women wore.
    Catherine made a cardboard pyramid with an Egyptian mummy inside. She gave us different objects, like the necklace I had, for working out if the mummy was a man or a woman. Everyone got to talk about their object and we all thought it was a woman.
    The Egyptians had an interesting belief of the afterlife. There were statues of cats and Jackals that represented the afterlife.
    I loved Catherine’s presentation about Egyptians and I can’t wait till she comes again!

  19. Cian says:

    In the Egyptian workshop I learnt all about the Egyptians. The lady that told us about it was called Catherine. Firstly, we opened a tomb to see Egyptian treasure. Secondly, we all got a replica of an Egyptian object. So, what we had to do is take the objects and try to identify what they were and what they were used for. Me and Josh got four mummified bodies and a small little beetle like shape. Then we identified them. First, we thought the bodies were a family, but we were not quite sure what the other one was. After that we got a sheet of what they were. The thing that we were not sure of turned out to be a scarab beetle, which gave you good luck. But the other objects were ushabti. They were servants that were mummified and put in tombs to help someone in the afterlife. Then we found out what gender used what object. I was really shocked when I saw what Egyptians wore! I really enjoyed the Egyptian workshop and all the amazing facts I learnt!

  20. Noah says:

    Catherine came Friday to talk to us about the Egyptians. I found it very interesting. I enjoyed learning about the pot and how they would put your organs in it when you die. Each lid was in the shape of a god to protect the organs for the after life, which the Egyptians believed in. The Egyptians also wore makeup to look rich and to also protect them from the sun. They cut their hair and used wigs, taking them off at night to stay cool. They also curled their wigs. I really enjoyed learning about the Egyptians, I found them fascinating.

  21. max p says:

    On Friday Catherine came to talk about the Egyptians.I found something very interesting and very disgusting,it was about the pot and that they put the insides of a person when they die in the pot.They would try to take the brain out they would get some kind of hook and take it out from the nose.Most people would put on make up to protect them self from the sun.They would also shave off all of their hair and wear wigs.I really enjoyed learning about the Egyptians and I am looking forward for the next one.

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