Ancient Greek Olympics

Last week, you all handed in some excellent homework projects about the Ancient Greek Olympics. You chose a sport from the original Olympics and presented what you had learned in different ways. Some children chose to use art to show what they had found, some used ICT and some made posters or booklets. Well done! Here are some excellent examples:

Olympic Horse Racing Aimee 
 

Aisling Trumpeting 
 

Ancient greece wrestling michael 

A New Headteacher Challenge!

 Headteacher's Challenge  

Source: bbc.co.uk Primary History

To answer this question you will need to follow the links below about the Ancient Greeks.

The question?
There was  a large statue of a goddess on the Acropolis hill in Athens;
1. Who did the statue represent?
2. What was it made of?
3. Was it bigger or smaller than the statue of 'Christ the Redeemer' in Rio de Janeiro?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/ancient_greeks/

http://greece.mrdonn.org/

http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/homework/Greece.html  

Dulwich Picture Gallery

Yesterday we had a fantastic day at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Following a lovely sunny walk through the park, we arrived at the gallery to learn about Ancient Greek art.

We looked at some beautiful paintings by Poussin, which were painted in the 17th Century, but were in the style of Roman and Ancient Greek paintings. We each chose a detail from one of the paintings to draw.

We took our drawings back to the studio, where we used egg tempera paint to complete our artwork in the style of the Ancient Greeks. Ben told us that the Ancient Greeks thought that there were 4 primary colours, can you remember what they were?

Our paintings had to be completed using only these four colours, which was quite tricky and involved lots of concentration to mix the colours we needed.

The exciting part of the morning was making our own paint! We discovered that Ancient painters found their colours in plants, rocks, rust and even burnt mummies! Some children were asked to use a pestle and mortar to crunch up charcoal into powder, then some other children spread the colour onto glass tiles. Then things got a bit slimy, as we had to break and separate eggs, so that we could pop the yolk to use to bind our paint together.

 

It was another wonderful trip to Dulwich Picture Gallery! What did you think? What did you enjoy? Can you remember what those four primary colours in Ancient Greece were?

Icarus Puppets

On Friday, we found out that Daedalus and Icarus had escaped from King Minos' palace. King Minos was furious! We wrote very persuasive letters from the King to try to persuade Daedalus to come back.

In the afternoon, we made these fabulous puppets of Icarus:

Medusa Masks

Today we worked with Mrs Cook to read the story of Medusa, then make these terrifying masks! Don't look directly into our eyes... we might turn you into stone!

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

 Table 4

Middle Table

A Taste of Ancient Greece!

We have started our new topic! We have enjoyed reading the beginning of the myth of Icarus and Daedalus.

Today we went back in time to a banquet at the palace of King Minos! We tasted some Ancient Greek food and some interesting combinations of flavours:

Bread dipped in honey

Bread dipped in wine (grape juice for us!)

Olives

Dates

After our tasting session, we each wrote a menu fit for a King's banquet:

By Sonny

 By Roderick

By Molly

Ancient Greek Shields

This week, for your homework, you have been asked to design a shield for an Ancient Greek hoplite soldier.

Here are some examples of shields (based on what historians think they would have looked like, from evidence they have found and images on Ancient Greek pottery). You can copy parts of a design from the pictures, but we would be much more impressed if you could design one of your own, to suit an Athenian or Spartan soldier!

Source: nen.gov.uk

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I look forward to seeing your terrifying and fearsome designs!