Class 6's Blog

Over the last few weeks in Art, Class 6 have been making canopic jars. We looked at some pictures of the ones Egyptians used. Then in the next lesson we designed our own jars- we put on thing’s that are special to us like our pets or our hobbies.In the next lesson we got the clay out and made the bottom part of our canopic jars. The lesson after that we had some round card and coloured it and that was the lid for the head to sit on.  We then made the head of the jar and left the pot to dry. The next time we painted the jar.

Here are our finished pots:

Class 6 have been working extremely hard in keyboards to get to a performance !

We learnt how to play  black notes then we tried the white notes!

We learnt note C, F, D & E.

We played Three cool mice, Merrily play three black keys, Caribbean break, Running for the bus & Have fun on a Saturday night! We started by singing yellow submarine.

Here are some videos from our concert:

In Art this half term we have been busy designing and making our own canopic jars.

These jars were originally used by the ancient Egyptians in the mummification process.  When the organs were removed from the dead body, they were put into canopic jars to keep them safe so they could be passed into the afterlife.

The children’s task was to design a 5th canopic jar.  Here are some photos of class 6 making the bottom part of their jar.  They used a coil technique to help them make the pot strong and then etched a design onto the clay to decorate them using different clay tools.

Next week, we will be making the top of the jar.  The children have designed their lids with something which is special to them.