This week, in History, we have been asking ‘What did the Ancient Egyptians believe?’ We learned all about the mummification process. Ancient Egyptians used to remove all the organs except the heart, clean and wrap the body. They did this because they believed people who died would need their bodies in the afterlife in a place called the Field of Reeds. However, you could only go to that place if you went to the Hall of Truth for judgement and weighed your heart on a pair of scales against a feather in front of the Gods Anubis and Osiris. In Art, we used mixed media of charcoal, crayon and chalk pastel to create shading using the hatching, cross-hatching, stippling and gradient techniques. In Science, we were asking, “What is inside our bodies?” We learned all about the skeleton and the organs inside our bodies. We have 206 bones, but when you’re a baby you have around 300. We don’t lose bones, but bones fuse together and get stronger as we grow. We learned the femur is the strongest bone in our body and our bones jobs are to protect important organs, such as: brain, lungs and heart. We were also visited by the NHS Foundation Trust to do a kindness workshop. We had a challenge to drew one of our peers and think about things we like about ourselves and the people in our lives we trust.

Next week, we will be asking, in History, ‘What did the Ancient Egyptians develop?’ and learning more about our skeleton in Science.

Our Flashback 4 questions this week were:

1.What is autocracy?

2.Whatfood group do we need to eat the most of to stay healthy?

3.What is not part of the Trinity?

4.What does a network switch do?

Our spelling rule next week is “l‘’ sounding words: knowledge, library, particular, popular, allowed, aloud, example, typical, dental, label, steel, steal