Year 4 – Ancient Egypt Assembly
Rahul
James
ALL
Khian
ALL
Layla
Harry
Amelia
Malika
Good Morning and welcome to our class assembly.
This term we have been learning all about a box!
OOOOooooOOOOO!
But not just any box… no no no…a BROWN box!
WOOOOooooOOOO
Exciting I know and I’m sure you cannot wait any
longer to find out about our brown box.
You are getting distracted now! It wasn’t just the
box we were learning about, it was more about the
items inside the box and where they were from.
I’m sure you’re all thinking this, so I’ll ask the
question for you
“Why is this box so important?”
Well first of all, on the outside of the box was a
very important address
The British museum,
Great Russell Street
London
Parmeet
Abdul
Robbie
Jacob
Sammi
Miya
But it was accidentally delivered to our classroom.
HERE IT IS! Inside we found a feather, some
bandages, a death mask, a scarab beetle, some
canopic jars and hieroglyphics. Obviously some of
the items are only pictures as the real items were
returned to the British Museum.
We tried to guess who the box belonged to.
I thought it belonged to a cave man because it had
feathers and they hunt birds.
I thought it belonged to an archaeologist as he may
have found all of the items.
After many minutes of extensive research, we
discovered that the items within the box belonged
to the boy king. Tutankhamun.
Who was Tutankhamun?
Olivia
Sukhjeet
Holly
Agyapal
Kasia
Keira
Freya
Jasmine
Kara
All
Navraj
All
Khian
Jacob
Jasmine
Kasia
Layla
Sammi
Adi
Robbie
Keira
Tutankhamun was a very famous Egyptian Pharoah.
He rose to fame when his tomb was discovered in
the Valley of the Kings by Howard Carter in 1922
with many of his treasures left intact.
This was rare because most tombs have been broken
into and robbed by grave robbers.
Tutankhamun was born in the year 1341 BC and died
in the year 1323 around the age of nineteen.
Unfortunately, at the age of 7 his father died and
Tutankhamun became pharaoh a few years later.
People aren’t quite sure how he died but scientists
discovered that the leg of his skeleton was broken
and badly infected before his death. It is likely this
is how he died.
Where is Egypt?
It’s in the North of Africa.
Shall we take King Tut his box back?
YEAAAAH
To the imagination station to catch the plane!
ZEEEEOOOOOOM SCREEECH!
Oh it’s hot here!
That’s because we’re in Egypt, we’re very close to
the equator so it’s super-hot here!
So off we went to return the box.
During our travels we saw some amazing things.
The saw the pyramids at Giza when the sun was
setting
(show silhouette paintings)
To create this affect we started by drawing a white
circle on the page, this became our sun.
Then we mixed the colour red a little bit at a time
into the white so it became darker and drew circles
around the sun.
When we got all the way to the end we used a clean
brush to blend the sky.
Once our background was complete, we made our
silhouette from black card which includes pyramids
Abdul
Rahul
Amelia
Sukhjeet
Jayden
James
Holly
Harry
Malika
Miya
Jayden
Adi
Layla
Agyapal
Jacob
Keira
Sammi
Sukjeet
and sand and stuck it onto our backgrounds when
they were dry.
How did the Egyptians create pyramids?
This was a long and tiring task.
Lots of people from villages were needed for the
project
They needed to level the floor to make the floor
flat
They needed to get large boulders from quarries to
make the pyramids.
They used chisels to shape the stone into large
cuboids.
To move the stones, they slid the stone along the
floor using poles like railways
To make sure the pyramid was aligned correctly the
Egyptians used the circumpolar stars as a guide.
And, to make sure the pyramid was straight, a plum
bob was used.
What was kept inside the pyramids?
The pyramids were used as tombs for rich and
important people such as pharaohs. So inside you
would find their bodies and their treasures and
belongings.
We made our very own Egyptian treasures like those
found in tombs.
(children show amulets and treasures)
We made them using salt dough to create our
desired shape and painted them when they were
dry.
What happened to the bodies that were put in
tombs?
When people died they were either mummified or
simply buried in the sand.
It was usually that the rich people were mummified
(because it was expensive) and the poor people were
buried in the sand.
Why were the bodies mummified?
The bodies were mummified to preserve them, this
Khian
Parmeet
Freya
Harry
Abdul
Adi
Jayden
Jasmine
Malika
Miya
Jacob
Freya
Robbie
Kasia
Kara
means that they will last longer.
We created instructional posters showing you how
to mummify someone or something, just in case.
(show poster – Layla)
How did they mummify the bodies?
First, you need some things.
You will need:
 A dead person
 A chief embalmer (___________ waves)
 A knife
 Canopic jars
 A hook
 Bandages
 Salt
First, you have to wash the body with water from
the river Nile
Then, the chief embalmer cuts the body on its left
hand side
After that, he removes the organs and places them
into canopic jars for safe keeping.
A hook is then used to remove the brain through
the nostrils
They then dried the body with salt and stuffed it
(but not with the same sort of stuff you have with
your Sunday roast)
The body is then left for 40 days
Okay, so you better come back in 40 days then…
only joking we’ll skip that bit.
Finally, the body is rubbed with oils and wrapped in
bandages. Mummification complete!
If you would like to have a go yourself, we are
bringing round some instructional leaflets. (Khian +
Jacob)
Don’t worry though; these instructions are about
how to mummify fruit, not the family pet.
What did the Egyptians believe happened to them
after death?
Olivia
ALL
Like many religions, they believed in an afterlife
where they travelled with their belongings
(Someone to read their story about the afterlife.)
Thanks for coming to see our assembly!