Neptune class, alongside the rest of the school, had a fantastic trip out to Conkers in Leicestershire.  The coach journey was definitely worth it.

We enjoyed an outside 'seed workshop', going on a train, playing in the adventure area, the 4D cinema experience and so much more!

As part of our topic on Eco Warriors, Neptune enjoyed cooking vegetable soup this week. We thought about the positive impact on the environment when we buy local and consider where our food comes from. This also links with our science as  we have been learning about balanced, nutritional diets. 

We practiced our chopping and peeling skills and followed the recipe. Then we had a little taste. It got a big thumbs up from most of us!

In art we have been thinking about trees and how important they are to our environment

We were inspired by the cubist style of art of Pablo Picasso.

We worked with complete independence and are very proud of our results!

In PSHE we have been learning about how to cooperate and work together.  We have used these skills to complete some challenges - having much fun along the way!

In Neptune we have really enjoyed designing and now making our own clay cartouches.  We learned how to shape the clay and how to use the tools (rolling pins, knives and cocktail sticks) to create the hieroglyphs.  We also learned how much clay likes to weld itself to the table covers or clay boards!
It looked like so much fun that Miss McNeil came and joined in with us.

Once the clay has dried out, we are going to paint the cartouches.

Here are the finished versions of our Egyptian cats, inspired by the images of Bastet the cat goddess.

We used a range of sewing stitches: running stitch, back stitch and even some cross stitch.

We worked out and problem solved how to create the cats' faces - we think we did a pretty good job :-)

Some of tte children were naturals!

We had an amazing day today on our WOW day.

The day started with some embalming and mummificiation - as it does!  The children were very keen to share their existing knowledge on this aspect of Egyptian culture.

We then learned how to write like an Egyptian scribe.  We used papyrus paper and reed pens to write in hieroglyphs. 

Our next activity was exmining artefacts and answering questions about their importance.  We liked having to research our answers and felt like proper historians.

One of our next jobs was to build a city!  Oh the power!

We finished our activites by playing Senet and Mancala which are both traditional games from Ancient Egypt.

What a busy and interesting day!!  The pictures below give you a snap shot of the exciting things we have done.

In Neptune class we have enjoyed sewing this term: learning about Ancient Egypt through art.

We learned about how important cats were to the Ancient Egyptians and how it was believed they were magical creatures!  We found out that there were temples dedicated to Bastet - the cat goddess.

We were very lucky and were able to welcome some parent and grandparent helpers into class.  This made our sewing afternoons very successful :-)

Here are some pictures of the work in progress - pictures of the final versions to follow.

We learned about the different crowns that were worn in Ancient Egypt.

We then looked at the iconic bust of Queen Nefertit and used collage to bring our designs to life.