Location – YOUR SCHOOL

Duration:

Session: 2 hours of delivery.

Booking and Prices: This session allows 25 pupils (minimum) to 35 pupils (maximum). 

Standard Learning Session is £7.50 + VAT per pupil.

Our outreach sessions have an additional charge of 40p per mile for our facilitators travel costs to your school from our museums site.

Key Stage: Key Stage 2

TO BOOK: Fill Out Our Booking Form or email us at learn@derbymuseums.org.

Session Description: Hear the fascinating story of a scribe called Ramose and learn what life was like for him and his family in Ancient Egypt over 3000 years ago. The class will be split into groups where they will learn more about some Ancient Egyptian artefacts called Shabtis and have a go at being scribes. The children will then discover the process of mummification using replica objects.

This session’s Make and Take Activity: Replica clay ‘Shabti’!

FAQ’s about our outreach sessions. 

National Curriculum Links Include:

• Aims to ensure that pupils: “Know and understand significant aspects of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations: the expansion and dissolution of empires: characteristics of non-European societies; achievements and follies of mankind…pupils should be taught about the achievements of the earliest civilisations”, (including Ancient Egypt).