History Off the Page, with up to 90 children, will recreate life in ancient Egypt in your school. History Off the Page provides valuable learning opportunities to the pupils through a combination of role-play, practical activities and hands on experience with facsimile artefacts. The hall will become market place of Thebes, participants will be traders, craftsmen etc. who will be busy at their tasks while sharing all the latest gossip.

Setting

1347 BC: Preparations for the festival of the Nile, at the court of (either) Nefertiti or Akhenaten (depending on the leader) are made during the morning, while celebrations take place during the afternoon.

Workshops

History off the Page will bring all the equipment and materials needed to set up workshops in your hall. The school needs to provide tables and adult supervisors. The atmosphere will be created by using drama and role-play, facsimile items and the sort of materials which were used by the Egyptians. The tables will be covered to protect them. The workshops normally include:

• Tomb painting
• Testing Lamps
• Scribes' table
• Making clay charms
• Making canopic jars
• Games of senet
• Scarab carving
• Archaeological dig
• Mummification
• Bread making

Banquet

During the afternoon session the pupils will celebrate the Egyptian Festival of the Nile. The afternoon is divided into the two sessions:

• Preparing for the banquet
• The banquet (Food will be served by slaves. Other pupils will take the roles of fan-bearing slaves, performances by actors, dancers and soldier-athletes. The school will need to provide simple food.)

Details of this and further information about the day are included in a booklet which is sent out prior to a booking.

Costumes are available to order from Off the Peg.

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