Year 4s trip to the castle
On Wednesday the 6 of January, year 4 went to Norwich castle to find
out about the Egyptians and Romans. The class was very excited to see
the Roman and Egyptian things. Jenni was our guide. We went with Miss
Maibaum and Mrs Diaper, Mrs Fiddy (Sonny’s nanny), Mrs Newton
(Marshall’s mum).
EGYPTIANS
In the Egyptian handling session, we handled shabi, beaded necklaces,
rings, animal amulets, god/goddess amulets, canopic jars, clay coffin
pieces, earrings, scarabs, bandage from a mummy, a makeup pot,
protection beads, face cream pots and wood from a coffin. It was fun
handling the objects (and scary to). We also went into the Egyptian
Gallery and saw a real mummy. It was a girl but she was in the wrong
Mummy case so they did not know much about her. The mummies were
over 2000 years old (wow).
ROMANS
We had a Roman handling session. We had an Egyptian handling session
too. In the Roman handling session we handled mosaic tiles, wax tablet,
Mortarium, roof tiles, poo stick, stylus, sandals, samian pottery, oil
scraper, Hypocaust tiles and wall plaster. The class’ favourite Roman
object was the poo stick (it was very funny).
Iceni
In the Iceni gallery there was a house that was covered in poo but didn’t
smell. In the Iceni gallery some of us dressed up as Romans also there was
a chariot ride in there too, lots of us had a go. There was coin rubbing as
well.
We had a lovey day at the castle with Jenni and busy day too. It was
amazing (thank you teachers).