Awesome Egyptians - Launcelot Primary School

Launcelot Primary School
Awesome Egyptians
Diary recounts as different
characters from Ancient
Egypt.
Making a papyrus picture.
Journalism: writing reports
based on archaeological
discoveries.
Making a cartouche
Designing and making
Egyptian necklaces.
Myths: writing traditional
adventure stories based on
Egyptian mythology.
Art
Design and Technology
Design and make a Shaduf
- Find out what Shadufs
were used for.
- How they work
Follow recipes to make Egyptian
flat bread
- Taste a range of Egyptian
foods.
- Investigating ways of
adding ingredients to a
basic recipe.
Computing
We are Bloggers!
Blog as an Egyptian about their
daily life.
Create databases on Egyptian
Pharaohs.
Use the internet to research
information about Ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics ~ lines and colours
Handmade paper
Geography
Where is Egypt?
Find Egypt on different maps.
Identifying continents.
Identify surrounding countries/seas
Labelling a map including Egyptians
cities
What are the geographical features of
Egypt?
What is Egypt like?
Find out facts about climate, population
and location.
What would a holiday in Egypt be like?
History
Find out how society was organised
in Ancient Egypt.
Find out about the Pharaohs and
why they were important.
Find out about Egyptian Gods and
Goddesses.
Find out about the pyramids and
their uses.
Find out about Ancient Egyptian
inventions and achievements.
Use hieroglyphics to solve codes and
write messages.
Compare ancient and modern Egypt.
-use secondary sources to describe
attractions in Egypt.
Water cycle (geography)
Mummification of tomato (observation
of changing of materials)
Levers
Forces an objects of different shapes
(plasticine)
Making and testing chariots (DT)
1. Christianity, human and
divine. Inc Moses
2.Judaism
What is the River Nile like?
Investigate: transport, locations, uses,
water cycle
Timeline problems
Pyramid nets [3D shapes]
read and write decimal
numbers as fractions
multiply proper fractions
and mixed numbers by
whole numbers
identify, name and write
equivalent fractions of a
given fraction
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PE and Dance
Games:
Racket games, passing, fielding,
attacking, defending, pass, dribble,
shoot.
What do you know about Egyptian
music and dance?
Looking at Egyptian paintings to
study body shapes and movement.
Choreographing dances to Egyptian
music.
Spanish
Foods and their origin.
Music
Steel pans
PATH PLUS
Science
Egyptian number sentences
RE
- Create brochures and adverts to
promote tourism in Egypt.
PSHE/Citizenship/R.E
Maths
English
Egyptian music
Harvest Assembly focus on
music performance.
Trips
Freshwater theatre workshop [visit to the school]
Horniman Museum
Celebration Day
Dressing up in Egyptian costume, traditional food tasting, hieroglyphic
code messages, sarcophagus making, Egyptian Jewellery making.