Ancient Greece at BMAG!

This week, a very excited Y3 visited Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of their Gods & Mortals topic - on arriving, they carefully made their way to the top floor to observe and sketch some of the artefacts in the Ancient Greek gallery and made notes of how old items were and where they were found looking at the notes underneath each artefact.

Children enjoyed using their maths skills to work out the age of the objects and it started some interesting conversations about where Greece and Cyprus were in the world, their BC/AD understanding, 'fragments' of pottery, 'excavating' and 'archaeology' - all words that the children had learned in the Flints and Stones topic last term. It was so good to see that they are applying their knowledge and understanding!

When we had finished in the gallery, the children took part in an art workshop, where they learned how the Greeks added relief to their clay pots and jugs and also how they added finer details to their designs. They drew the shape of an owl on to paper and then painted around it (which gives the orange on black effect) and then they used a scratchboard to show how they would have added finer details to faces and bodies (the black on orange effect) - Even Mrs Miles had a go too!

Most children had never visited BMaG before and said that they had been inspired to revisit with their families. As they were only on the bus 15 minutes, they deduced that it mustn't be that far from our school!

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Stone Age Stewed Fruit

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Welford Year 3

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