Welcome to Wagtails

Terms 3-4

Let’s travel back 5000 years to the dusty realms of ancient Egypt.

Cruise the Nile, entering a world of mysteries and curses, mummies and pharaohs.

Find out about life on the river’s fertile banks, discovering Egypt and its fascinating culture.

Unravel the secrets of ancient tombs, using historical sources and age-old artefacts. Find out about powerful pharaohs and grandiose gods and prepare a body for its journey to the afterlife.

Key Questions:

Archaeologists or Tomb-Raiders?

What do we know about life and death in ancient Egypt?

Why is Egypt known as Gift of the Nile?

Important Information 

• Tuesdays and Wednesdays  are our PE days this term. Please make sure that you have you PE kit in school.
• Homework tasks this term will need to be completed on google classroom. We will be using Revision Guides to practise our maths and literacy skills. The pages will be set weekly and a feedback quiz will allow you to show me how you managed each task.
• All year sixes are expected to learn their weekly spellings and practise their tables so that they can do them with lightning speed and accuracy. The spellingshed and timestables rockstars apps will support this.
• Children are expected to spend around 30 minutes per day reading their home reading book. This will be recorded via google classroom.

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