Ferndown First School – Topic Overview
KS2 – AWSOME EGYPTIANS
How was society organised in
Ancient Egypt?
Enquiry Questions
Why was the River Nile so important?
How were the pyramids built?
National Curriculum
As historians, we will be learning how to use different artefacts and
sources of evidence to find out about life in Ancient Egypt. They will be
focusing on how Egyptians lived, why the River Nile was so important
and why they believed in so many different gods.
As designers, we will be designing, making and evaluating a structure
based on an Ancient Egyptian building or temple. In order to achieve this
they will be researching the type of building they want to build before
putting together a strong structure with a right angle join. They will also
be learning how to saw wood for their structure.
As scientists, we will be exploring movement and forces, comparing how
things move on different surfaces. As part of this unit the children will be
learning how to improve the way they record the results of their
investigations.
As musicians, we will be finding out about what is known about music in
Ancient Egypt. Our musical focus will be rhythm and duration of sounds.
To embed this, we will be composing a piece of music that could be
used to represent one of the Egyptian gods. As part of this the children
will be creating ‘ostinato’ which means repeating patterns with tuned and
percussion instruments.
School Essentials
Our Values
Possibilities
Global Diversity
Spiritual/Moral
Through our Jigsaw unit ‘Being
We will be focusing on the value We will be finding out
We will be learning about how
in my World’ we have been
of respect during this topic, from about all the possible jobs
different the ‘belief system’ was
looking at artefacts to
that are linked to an
that the Ancient Egyptians had
creating our class charter and
respecting and celebrating the
interest in history, including and how the Egyptian culture is
thinking about the right choices
achievements of people from
museum curators and
different from ours.
we can make in and out of
Ancient Egypt.
archaeologists.
school.
AWSOME EGYPTIANS – HOME LEARNING MENU
Home Learning should build your skills and confidence. It should also support you to practise the skills which you need to improve
and develop your understanding of the topics you are learning about in school. We want you to love learning and we look forward to
seeing how you tackle at least one of these tasks each week.
Verbal
I enjoy reading,
writing &
speaking.
Mathematical
I enjoy working
with numbers &
science.
Visual
I enjoy painting,
drawing &
visualising.
Kinaesthetic
I enjoy doing
hands-on
activities.
Musical and Dance
I enjoy making and listening
to music.
Re-tell the story of
‘The Scarab’s
Secret’.
Find out 5 facts
about the
Egyptian gods.
Write the
alphabet in
hieroglyphics.
Write a diary entry
from Howard
Carter’s point of
view.
Make up your own
story about the life of a
pharaoh.
Find out about
Egyptian numbers
and write some
number
sentences.
Tell somebody
what you have
learnt about
coding.
Pick a 3 digit
number. How
many different
ways can you
partition it?
Experiment how
two different
objects move on
different surfaces.
Make a list of
everything in your
house that is magnetic.
Paint and/or draw
yourself as a
pharaoh.
Design your own
Egyptian god.
Remember your
favourite part of
‘The Scarab’s
Secret’ story and
paint/draw a
picture of it.
Paint a picture Make a poster of
of a different
your favourite
ending of ‘The
Egyptian god.
Scarab’s Secret’
story.
Make a model of
a pyramid.
Create and
collage a scene
of the river Nile.
Make a model of
a scarab beetle.
Make your own
Egyptian mummy
and take a photo of
it.
Make a statue of one
of the Egyptian gods
and find out about why
they were worshipped.
Remember and
record the
instruments
traditionally found
in Egyptian music.
Research and
listen to some
Egyptian music.
Make your own
Egyptian dance.
Create a musical
instrument similar
to one from ancient
Egypt.
Write a rap about an
Egyptian god.