Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe shapes, patterns and illustrations that have been used on pots from Ancient Greece, a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to add decorations to a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek themes and a worksheet to review and evaluate their completed Ancient Greek pots to suggest changes and improvements.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to add a painted design to complete a clay pot reflecting Ancient Greek themes and traditions.

This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to practise shaping and modelling clay when making replica pots and jugs reflecting and illustrating life in the Ancient Greek civilization in the past. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.