EASTERSIDE ACADEMY Year 3 and 4 – Who wants to live forever? (5) Memorable Experience Visit to Hancock Museum National Curriculum PoS – History Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world. National Curriculum PoS – Art
To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas about great artists, architects and designers in history. To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay].
Connect Explicitly connect to key concept revisited.
Previous periods-of-time within history already taught (KS1/Year 3/4) – timeline – link to Ancient Greece. Link to Romans.
Key Concepts Investigate and interpret the past (History) / Master techniques (Art) Declarative Knowledge – History
There was never one country called ‘ancient Greece’. Instead, Greece was divided up into small city-states, like Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Olympia. Greeks were great thinkers, warriors, writers, actors, athletes, artists, architects and politicians. Greeks called themselves Hellenes and their land was Hellas. The name ‘Greeks’ was given to the people of Greece later by the Romans. The earliest settlers mostly lived a simple hunter-gatherer or farming lifestyle. The Minoans were the first great Greek civilisation. They didn't live on mainland Greece but on the nearby island of Crete, between 2200BC and 1450BC. They were known as the Minoans after their legendary king, Minos. After the Minoans came the Mycenaean civilisation, from mainland Greece. They were fine builders and traders, but they were also great soldiers. They famously fought in the battle of Troy. After the Mycenaean age ended in about 1100BC, Greece entered a Dark Age. It is known as a dark age because nobody knows much about what happened - all written language and art disappeared. In 800BC, almost 300 years after the Dark Age began, Greek civilisation slowly emerged again.
Outcome: Riddles – KS1 Newspapers
Declarative Knowledge – Art
Made of terracotta (fired clay), ancient Greek pots and cups, or “vases” as they are normally called, were fashioned into a variety of shapes and sizes (see above), and very often a vessel's form correlates with its intended function. ... Or, the vase known as a hydria was used for collecting, carrying, and pouring water.
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Most of the pots were made of clay on a potters’ wheel and built up in sections. Sometimes moulds shaped like animals heads or peoples heads were used. The enormous storage jars were probably constructed by coiling the clay at first, then smoothing out. To decorate the pots, Greeks used special methods called black-figure and red-figure painting.
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