Last week, while the Year 5 students were away at camp, the Year 6 students studied Egypt. Here are some of their highlights.

While the year 5’s were at camp we had to learn about Egypt.

We had booklets that had little puzzles and games that we worked through over the period of time that the year 5’s were at camp. We also had math booklets where we had to do the numbers in Egyptian hieroglyphics.

We did art where we had a side on picture of our head and then we drew with pastels an Egyptian headdress on our heads. I enjoyed this art because it was different from what we usually do. - Nate

When all the year fives went to camp, the year sixes did some art work with our names in hieroglyphics. It was lots of fun. We also got to do some research about something in Egypt that we wanted to learn about. We also got to do some Egyptian math, it was so fun. - Ruby 

When the year fives went to camp we did a new topic all about Egypt. We all got a booklet that had a bunch of activities. We wrote some facts about Egypt on google docs and then made them into a poster. We also did art where we had to take a picture of our face then draw a hat with pastels. We also learnt how to spell our name in hieroglyphics, it was really fun. - Alise

While the year 5’s were at camp we researched about Egypt. I chose to research Cleopatra, here are some facts about her:

• She died on August 10th or 12th 30 BC

• She was a Goddess, a Queen

• Cleopatra was a bookworm

• Born in Alexandria, Egypt

• Her honeymoon with Mark Anthony lasted 6 months

• She bathed in milk

• Cleopatra's Mum may have been Greek

• She died at 39 years old - Emma J-L

Education in Ancient Egypt:

At the age of five, pupils entered the writing school and continued their studies in reading and writing until the age of sixteen or seventeen. Egyptians started education in three-thousand B.C.

People who could afford it sent their boys to be educated at the temple school called The House of Life. Those who could not afford it taught their boys at home. Girls, although they were equal under the law, did not go to school, even if their parents could afford it. - Claudia