Oak - Week Beginning 10th October 2022

Today we have been time travelling and transported the children back in time 100 years to 1922 - to the time when Howard Carter first discovered the treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.

The children, (in both Oak and Willow Classes), became archaeologists and in small groups were allowed the enter the sacred tomb of the infamous pharaoh. They had to crawl through the tunnels to enter the burial chamber and examine the feast of treasures on display. Their mission was to describe and draw the many different artefacts to the rest of their archaeologist colleagues with the aim to produce some detailed field sketches of what they had found. They took it in turns to explore the different chambers and select the artefacts that fascinated them the most.

After all their exploring was completed, they then took their field sketches and photographs back to their research stations and used the information gathered to make some inferences about what they had found. They were tasked to answer the following questions about a few of the artefacts:

What do you think it is?   What do you think it was used for?   What materials is it made from?   What does it tell us about life in Ancient Egypt?   Who do you think used it?   Is there a modern-day equivalent?

It was a fun way to learn all about the excavation of this ancient tomb, the children really enjoyed crawling through the mock up tunnel, using their torches to find out as much as they could in the time. Real life history detectives in action!!

Check out the gallery for some pictures of this activity and the work they produced.