History: pyramids

Thursday 19 November 2020

Why did the Ancient Egyptians build pyramids? Y6 know!

After researching some cool facts (check them out below), we made and decorated our pyramids with our information and even some hieroglyphics.

One of our History words is the Rosetta Stone

Albie said, “The Rosetta Stone was found in a fort near Rosetta, Egypt. It has three different languages on it: cursive Egyptian, Greek and hieroglyphics. Scholars knew Greek and cursive Egyptian so they used it to work out what the hieroglyphics meant.”

Rayn said, “It’s now located in the British museum and it was found by a soldier!”

Leo said, “It was found by a captain called Pierre in 1799 and in 1801 it was transported to the British museum. In 1802, they managed to find out what the hieroglyphics meant!”

 

Safiya-Mishal said, “I found this task easy and hard. Finding facts was easy but when we came to actually sticking the pyramid together, mine kept falling apart but I had help from Yusayrah!”

Hifza shared, “I found it challenging because you had to fold every part carefully and use the glue to put it together. Finding out the facts was interesting because there was lots of things I hadn’t learnt before.”

Moortown Primary School, Leeds
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