Calling Year Four's Archaeologists! 

A long-lost tomb is discovered on the side of a mountain in the Valley of the Kings. The discovery is reported to the Cairo Museum of Antiquities who dispatch a team of archaeologists to investigate the discovery, open the tomb, and catalogue what’s inside. 

As Historians, we will be learning about the Ancient Egyptian belief in the After life, their Gods and their burial practices. We will look at how the Ancient Egyptians have imapcted today's civilisation and compare how they lived to The Romans. 

As Scientists, we will be learning about States of Matter and The Water Cycle. We will be thinking about the character from The Snowman by Raymond Briggs, answering the question asked by the children last term - Shouldn't the Snowman have melted?

As Writers, we shall be using our knowledge as archaeologists to compile reports and information texts around our findings from our tomb discovery and about the burial process used by The Ancient Egyptians.  

As Design Technologists, we shall be creating our own 3D canopic jars -  these were used to store the organs of the deceased during the burial process and often depicted Egyptian Gods

As Mathematicians, we will be moving on to multiplication and division, learning new methods for these operations which will make us more efficient mathematicians, enabling us to calculate larger values!

As Artists, we shall be learning about the infamous artist Andy Warhol, using his works to inspire our own printing works based upon our Egyptian topic.