Trip and events
Budding Egyptologists
by P5 teacher Carmen Markes and P5 students
For the space of a morning, the P5s became budding historians as they undertook an eagerly awaited field trip to the Grand Louvre Museum. They listened very attentively as their English-speaking guide explained some highlights of life in ancient Egypt – the scribes, with their peculiar writing systems, the gods, the special treatment the pharaohs got when they died: mummification, their way of thinking about the after-life…
By the time we got back to Sèvres, everyone was tired, hungry, but really glad they had been able to go exploring a distant culture. (C.M.)
Inside the musuem the architecture was all modern and shaped like pyramids, but behind was a beautiful ancient mansion. We went in one of the pyramids and met an English guide who taught us a lot such as the scirbes’ life, the mummies, Cleopatra, legends and their thoughts. (Ana Nico)
Scribes were very happy men. They were given crops by the pharaoh. Scribes were the only men who knew how to write in all Egypt.
I saw a scribe’s tablet that is an example of what they studied at school. School children copied extracts. This text was written in black and punctuated in red. It took the schoolboy eighteen days to copy it.
A scribe’s palette was made of wood but sometimes in ivory. They were used to hold colors like red and black. (Antoine)
I was amazed to discover that a body could be kept a long time just by being mummified…. Egyptians played games that still exist today. For example: chess. (Clara)
What I liked best were the beautiful statues I saw. I also saw a mummy, a real one, it was impressive with bandages and other things. I saw coffins with beautiful heads drawn on the coffins. The pharaohs had huge coffins with lots of description on them. (Chloé Vais)
In the pharaohs’ room I learned the story of Osiris. It talked about a god that had a mean brother. His brother was jealous about his brother’s power on the world so he invents evil plans to kill him.
We had to find a music box in the instrument room…. I saw that Egyptians played harp, drums. The next room was the jewelry room. We needed to draw jewelry and find a makeup spoon. (Alexine)
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