Egypt Assembly 10.02.11
Zantia:
Hello and welcome to Badger Class Assembly.
William:
We would like to begin our assembly by taking you on a journey; a journey back in
time; to the land of the Ancient Egyptians!
All:
We’re Going on a Mummy Hunt.
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 1:
Uh-oh a sandstorm
A swirling, whirling sandstorm
We can’t go over it
We can’t go under it
Oh no, we’ll have to go through it!
Swish, swooo, swish, swooo, swish, swooo.
All:
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 2:
Uh-oh the Nile
The long, winding Nile
We can’t go over it
We can’t go under it
Oh no, we’ll have to swim through it!
Gulp, gasp, gulp, gasp, gulp, gasp.
All:
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 3:
Uh-oh scarab beetles
Dangerous, lethal scarab beetles
We can’t go over them
We can’t go under them
Oh no, we’ll have to go through them!
Run, pinch, run, pinch, run, pinch.
All:
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 4:
Uh-oh a pyramid
A giant, square-based pyramid
We can’t go over it
We can’t go under it
Oh no, we’ll have to go through it!
Tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe.
All:
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 5:
Uh-oh Anubis
Scary, God of the afterlife Anubis
We can’t go over him
We can’t go under him
Oh no, we’ll have to go through him!
Fight, duck, fight, duck, fight, duck!
All:
We’re going on a mummy hunt
We’re going to catch an Egyptian one
What a scorching day!
We’re not scared
Group 6:
Uh-oh a sarcophagus
A hieroglyphic-covered sarcophagus
We can’t go over it
We can’t go under it
Oh no, we’ll have to open it!
Pull, screech, pull, screech, pull, screech.
Group 7:
What’s that!
One musty, smelly bandage.
Four, gut-holding canopic jars.
Two fake onion eyes.
It’s a pharaoh!
Group 6:
Group 5:
Group 4:
Group 3:
Group 2:
Group 1:
Quick, get out of the sarcophagus; push, screech, push, screech, push, screech.
Back past Anubis; fight, duck, fight, duck, fight, duck.
Back through the pyramid; tip-toe, tip-toe, tip-toe.
Back through the scarab beetles; run, pinch, run, pinch, run, pinch.
Back through the River Nile; gulp, gasp, gulp, gasp, gulp, gasp.
Back through the sandstorm; swish, swooo, swish, swooo, swish, swooo.
Group 8:
Get to the time machine,
Open the door,
Strap on the seatbelt,
Oh-no
We forgot to shut the door!
Back to the door,
Back to the cockpit,
Set the time zone,
Press the Go button,
Hold on tight,
All:
We’re not going on a mummy hunt again!
Toby:
Now, many of you may not know, but Ancient Egyptian mummies, weren’t like our
mummies that we have today.
Titania:
In fact, most of them weren’t female at all; they were male kings, or Pharaohs as
they were called.
Stanley:
We have been looking at how a Pharaoh became a mummy and would like some help
to show you all how this was done (ask for volunteers from the audience).
Rufus:
Step 1: Take a pharaoh’s body. Top tip: make sure the body is a dead one!
Ruby:
Step 2: Next, clean the dead body and take it to Wabet, the ‘place of embalming’.
Romy:
Step 3: Get a piece of wire with a hook on the end and put it up the nose of the
dead pharaoh, give it a wiggle around and then pull the scrambled brain out. You
can throw this away!
Reggie:
Step 4: Next, get a slicer priest to make a cut down the left-hand side of the
body.
Olly:
Step 5: Take the lungs, stomach, liver and intestines out through the cut and place
in the canopic jars. You need to leave the heart inside as it is needed for the
afterlife.
Natalie:
The lungs go in Hapy, the baboon-headed canopic jar.
Lily:
The stomach goes in Duamutef, the jackal-headed canopic jar.
Lewis:
The liver goes in Imsety, the human-headed canopic jar.
Laela:
And the intestines go in Qebehseneuf, the falcon-headed canopic jar, but you need
to soak them first before they will fit in!
Katy:
Step 6: Wash the body out using palm wine and soak it in natron, a chemical that
will dry the body out.
Imogen:
You will need to soak the body and the intestines in natron for 40 days!
Holly:
Step 7: Keep turning the intestines in the natron and once they are completely dry,
you can wrap them in linen and put them into the canopic jar.
Hollie:
Step 8: Take the dry and wrinkly body to the per nefer, ‘The Beautiful House’ and
rub the skin with oil to make the skin soft.
Henry J.:
Step 9: Stuff the empty body with sawdust, rags and chaff and plump it up by
putting mud into tiny cuts in the skin.
Henry C.:
Step 10: Give your dead pharaoh some false onion eyes and some fake hair.
Finlay:
Step 11: Wrap your dead body in 20 layers of linen bandages and glue the layers
together with resin.
Eloise:
Step 12: Finally wrap the bandaged body in two special large shrouds. All this
wrapping will take you at least 15 days to do!
Echo
Step 13: Put the mummified pharaoh into a maximum of 3 coffins, placed inside
each other. Don’t forget to put the canopic chest inside with all four of the
canopic jars.
Archie:
Step 14: Paint the coffins with some Egyptian gods, some spells to protect the
body and some hieroglyphics that say how wonderful the dead pharaoh is!
Amy:
Step 15: Place the coffins into a stone sarcophagus with the pharaoh’s death mask.
Amaryllis:
Step 16: Using a boat, take the sarcophagus to the western side of The River Nile
and then pull it along on a sledge to the pharaoh’s pyramid.
Zantia:
Step 17: Make sure that there are lots of mourners to carry things that the
pharaoh will need in the afterlife.
William:
Step 18: After a total of 70 days, you have finally finished! Place the sarcophagus
and all of the pharaoh’s expensive belongings into the pyramid and give yourself a
well-deserved rest!
Toby:
Wow! After all of that mummifying I hope we have enough energy to share with
you the last part of our assembly. Let’s walk like an Egyptian!
(Walk like an Egyptian dance).
Titania, Stanley and Rufus:
We would finally like you to join us in our prayer:
Dear Lord,
Thank you for all of the journeys that we go through in our lives. These journeys can be back in
time, journeys with other people, and journeys within ourselves. It is through these journeys
that we are able to learn, grow and have wonderful experiences.
Amen.
Ruby:
Thank you for watching Badger Class’s assembly.