Year 5 Egyptian Day

When I first entered the hall, I met a red-haired jolly, funny lady – her name was Doc. She told us [a lot of information] about ancient Egypt. Then she gave us our first activity. It was a quiz! There were eight boards with information about ancient Egypt on them. There were four questions per board, and the boards had the correct answers to the questions.

After break, we played a board game. You must be thinking “how fun, a board game!” But this was no ordinary board game, it was ancient Egyptian! It was called ‘Hounds and Jackals’. One player was ‘hounds’ and the other, ’jackals’. It was like snakes and ladders however, instead of dice, there were five pieces of wood and on each piece one side was black and the other wood-colour. You had to throw the pieces of wood onto a surface and count the black pieces. That was the times you moved your counter.

Next was Egyptian maths where we decoded hieroglyphs first. The hieroglyphs gave us three tasks: measure things in the classroom measuring with one cubit, palm or finger. After lunch, we saw Doc mummifying a body which was a plastic human called Jeff and she took his brain from his nose [eek]! Afterwards we played a game which involved six card board animals and each animal had different amounts of points. You had to throw beanbags at the animals to try and hit them.

Lastly we heard a story and Doc, who was funny, made it really exciting. Only half of it was written, so we made up the rest! I loved this day!

By Aadya Aggarwal

Hello and welcome to my first news. It was a cold frosty Wednesday morning when I entered Vincent hall. There was a tall lady dressed in a hikers outfit standing there at the front of the hall. I was already intrigued from the way she dressed and she has a certain awe about her. I couldn’t wait to take part in the Egyptian workshop!

Once all of my year had sat down, the lady said she would like us to call her Doc. Doc began by telling us a little about Upper and Lower Egypt. Then we did comprehension all
about Egypt. What made it more fun than the usual way we do comprehensions is that we had to find information on the boards.

After break we did some maths. We learnt that one cubit was the same as the length of my arm. That was the unit used in Egypytain days for measurements. My favourite part of the workshop was when Doc showed us the method of mummification. I learnt that you have to scramble the brain up before you pull it out of your nose. The thought of that made me squeal. She asked two of my friends to help her. They helped wrap the mummy. Doc got wrapped up along with the mummy, which I thought was extremely funny. I couldn’t stop laughing. This was the best day ever and I wished it could last forever.

Thank you for listening to my first news!

By Dhara Patel