In the news this week from Beech Class…

On Monday, Beech Class and Chestnut Class went to the Ashmolean Museum. Even though we looked at landscapes in the morning, we were lucky enough to visit the Egyptian gallery in the afternoon. We saw some hieroglyphs and a mummy. The lid of the sarcophagus had hieroglyphs on the outside and the inside! There were also model boats and old pottery for storing food and water. Annabelle, Theo, Teddy, Joshua.

In the middle of Egyptian gallery was a chamber, which was covered in hieroglyphs and pictures. We also learnt how a mummy was formed. First, they took out the organs. Then they covered the mummy in salt and left it for forty days before covering it in soot. Finally, they wrapped the mummy in bandages. Robyn, Darcey, Orlaith, Ethan

We saw a photograph of the Rosetta Stone which had a lot of information next to it. We have learnt about the Rosetta Stone in our history lessons. People learnt what hieroglyphs meant from the Rosetta Stone because it has Greek writing on it as well. Charlie and Joseph

The Hunt in the Forest is one of the first pictures in the world to use the vanishing point. We got to dress up like some of the characters in the picture and make a soundscape. Rebecca and Rosie

We made postcards of non-finished oil paintings. The artists who made these oil paintings just wanted to see what they could do and to practise. Mollie and Sienna

June Landscape, by John Piper, was an abstract painting that we found out about. It is very colourful, like paint has been splashed on it. Fleur, Layla, Amy

The swords (Katanas) in the Chinese section were my favourite artefacts in that gallery. Finlay

My favourite artefact in the Chinese gallery was the cloak with beautiful flower patterns. I liked it because it was quite relaxing to look at. Luca

My favourite artefact was the Chinese sword made with coins. It was a good luck charm that people put over their beds when sleeping. Rafferty