The Cypress Museum opened its doors today for one day only. It was wonderful to see so many parents and carers attend our annual Museum Day, where we showcase the wonderful learning and outcomes of the children’s autumn/ spring thematic topics.
Our Year 6 Cypress tour guides led parents around the Museum, signposting adults to classrooms where their children were learning.
To the right of the main corridor was the Year 4 Roman zone. Roman shields were displayed along the hallway. Colourful, symmetrical Roman shields lined the corridor and Roman purses adorned the classroom walls. Children worked with focus to design and create a mosaic. In Hawthorn class, children were sewing their Roman purses using an overstitch sewing technique. Threading the needle proved to be the trickiest part!
Back through the corridor and up the stairs took you to the Year 3 Zone: The Great Exhibition, where children have been studying the Crystal Palace and its famous Great Exhibition of 1851, heralding a new age of technology and innovation. Year 3 have also been learning about the famous Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his truss and suspension bridges, creating replicas of well-known bridges and explaining what makes their structures fit for purpose. Today, children were making stamps to create prints inspired by the art of William Morris and creating spinning top toys from cardboard and pencils. Children were taken back in time and experienced life as a Victorian child, practising their copperplate handwriting in their Victorian schoolrooms, whilst the teachers served up gruel!
Year 5 have been very busy learning about the Vikings and had a vast array of activities throughout the Year 5 Viking Zone. Visitors were presented with beautiful sketches of Viking artefacts, newspaper articles detailing battles and raids and a Viking dressing-up zone. Viking shields covered the walls and children were busying themselves, preparing and presenting sketches and descriptions of their favourite Norse god to their peers.
The Year 6s theme, ‘Walk like an Egyptian’, was apparent the moment you rounded the corner and saw golden death masks beautifully displayed along the stairs and in classrooms. The children were busy making shadufs: a hand operated device for lifting water used by Egyptians to irrigate the land.
Special thanks to our House and Vice Captains, Ivy, Berry, Maxwell, Hettie, Maya, Sophronya, Beatrice and Kitty.
Thank you to all of the children and staff who worked hard to transform the school into an immersive journey for our visitors today!
We hope you enjoyed your visit!
Mrs Carpenter and the Cypress Upper team
