Ancient Greece History Workshop

On Monday 18th November, the children of Year 4, 5 and 6 enjoyed our ‘Ancient Greece Experience Workshop’. In the morning, they had a chance to hear about Athens on the day of the famous Battle of Marathon. They began by taking part in several different activities. They learned to make Greek writing tablets from wax, created mosaics, learned how to extract olive oil and make lamps – they even had the chance to act as doctors using different herbs and fruits to create various medicines to cure ill patients!

In the afternoon, they received an update from the Spartans (they wouldn’t help out at the battle!) and took part in getting to grips with different aspects of Greek culture. They practised and performed tales including Greek heroes like Agamemnon, Odysseus and even took part in a dramatic Greek dance. The children even experienced how democracy works and began to understand that only certain people had the power to vote for their government.

Finally, they enjoyed a feast celebrating Dionysus. There was bread, cheese, ‘wine’, apples grapes and olives to devour. Phidippedes ran all the way from Marathon to tell us the Athenians had triumphed over the Persian army.

It was an excellent day and really helped underpin different aspects of our History learning for lots of different ages and cultures – not just Ancient Greece!