Greek Myths
This English scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise composing narrative stories to illustrate the structure and format of myths based on culture and traditions from Ancient Greece. The can produce recounts and diary entries to show some of the things that can happen in a Greek myth.
Daedalus and Icarus
Explore how to develop and perform drama plays to illustrate the sequence of events in a scene from the Ancient Greece myth of Daedalus and Icarus
Persephone and the Pomegranate Seeds
Identify and describe the main narrative features of myths to use when writing a diary as a character from a story set in Ancient Greece
Theseus and the Minotaur
Investigate how to compose and present a narrative story based on the text features of a myth from Ancient Greece about a hero and a monster
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Changing Seasons
Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives
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Chinese Dragons
Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance
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Suffix Combinations
Identify and record how to build a range of special words by using different combinations of roots and suffixes
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Ancient Greek Games
Explore the development of the Olympic Games that began during the history of Ancient Greece and make comparisons with modern competitions