Years 3 and 4 were lucky enough to have an expert visitor, Mrs Horne, share rare Egyptian artefacts that had been found in Egyptian tombs. They had been brought to England by members of her family in the early 1900s after working alongside Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon.

We carefully examined the artefacts which were very valuable, and some of us tried on jewellery and beads that we think would have once belonged to an Egyptian pharaoh. We looked at photographs of the sphinx from a long time ago and compared them to more recent photos that showed how the sphinx had been repaired.

One of our favourite artefacts was the shabti, a model of a servant, that would have been put in a tomb to help the pharaoh in the afterlife. The shabti was decorated with hieroglyphics.

We would like to thank Mrs Horne for giving up her time and sharing her priceless objects.