On Monday 12th of November, 5F went to Palace Green Library in Durham to learn about the Ancient Greeks.
To start the day, they played ‘History Detectives’ and had to look at artefacts, and work out what they were made of and what they might have been used for.
They were pushed to try and come up with some impressive descriptions of the colours; some we came up with were: ‘crown gold’, ‘coal black’, ‘satsuma orange’ and ‘dark chocolate’.
After lunch, they completed a series of activities in the museum.
Playing knuckle bones
Playing knuckle bones
Translating ancient Greek
Translating ancient Greek
Translating ancient Greek
Translating ancient Greek
Answering questions using the displays
Looking at plans of the temples for building
They translated Ancient Greek writing, relating to the Greek gods. Looked at the displays to match the object to the names. They also played a game of jacks, with animal bones. Looking at Greek buildings, they had to label them build an example of a temple out of foam bricks.
What do you think of these final temple builds?
The wedding of Jason and the beautiful princess.
To end our trip, they put on our own Greek tragedy: the story of Medea, a witch-like woman who poisoned her husbands fiancé, father and own children. The children were told to exaggerate and overact when performing – like the Greeks did – to make it entertaining.
They were told upon leaving that Isla was one of the best Medea’s the museum has ever had.
Warning: do not have your volume on too loud for the princess’s demise through the ‘Death Door’.
