Our Summer project is called ‘Walk like an Egyptian’. In this topic, the children will immerse themselves in the Egyptians, their culture and learn all about some of the famous pharaoh’s and rituals that they had. Our classroom environment will be blue and gold voile and fabric from corners and across ceiling. Large Tutankhamun mask on the wall. Table top display with canopic jars, hieroglyphics and examples of hieroglyphics. Pyramid backdrop on the wall and hieroglyph backdrop on the wall. Science / cooking display with key vocab linked to digestion, teeth, healthy lifestyle and digestion. We will be lucky enough to have a trip to Abington park museum to look at the Egyptians.  Some of our key texts – Ancient Egypt, Egypt magnified, Secrets of a sun god, The time travelling cat. In Science, we will look at; nutrition and the digestive system in animals and humans, the human skeleton and muscular system, identifying different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions. During history lessons, we will be exploring the achievements of the earliest civilization of Ancient Egypt, giving an overview of where and when this civilization appeared and an in-depth study of Ancient Egypt. Including: Howard Carter, Tutankhamun, hieroglyphics, mummification, the sphinx, the eye of Horus and pyramids. Music – understanding and appreciating a wide range of live and recorded music drawn from different traditions and from great composers and musicians. Listening to and appreciating Folkloric music. Egyptian folk music, including the traditional Sufi dhikr rituals in Egypt, the closest contemporary music genre to ancient Egyptian music, having preserved many of its features, rhythms, and instruments. Including the composer - Mohamed el Sayed. Art – Clay – designing and creating canopic jars. Ensuring that the skills of joining and slip pots are involved. Print making, we will look at the techniques for print making (impressed and relief). We will look at the works of famous artists who used pattern in their work e.g. Pollock, Kandinsky, Mondrian. In geography, we will focus on the tropic of cancer and capricorn as well as the location of the equator in relation to the UK and Egypt. We will discuss time zones (GMT) and we will conduct an in-depth study of Egypt and neighbouring countries. Our computing lessons will involve filming and editing Howard Carter interviews in a discovery channel style and using visual effects to edit and sequence our films. We will also have internet safety lessons (1 per half term). RE days. Day 1 – Islam – studying the Islamic sacred texts, discussions about what a Hajj is, and where Muslims go for theirs and why. Day 2 – Big questions – looking at: how stories of faith guide people's lives, how different religions believe the world was created and what different religions believe happen to us after we die.

Our Superb starter – Trip to Abington Park museum for the Egypt experience.

Mix it up middle – Clay week. Designing and creating clay canopic jars.

Enthralling ending – Cooking and nutrition day – preparing some Egyptian style food to try.