Swarcliffe Primary School

Who were the Ancient Greeks?

As we move into the second half of the summer term, we will continue our learning on the Ancient Greeks and the impact they had on both the ancient world and modern living. We will continue to look at Greek Gods, democracy, Alexander the Great and much much more!

English 

This half term, our work in English will revolve around the Ancient Greeks. We will start by writing an alternate story opening of Who Let the Gods Out. During this write, we will look to use a range of different sentence types and the FANTASTICS. Once this is complete we will turn our attention to writing a Historical Recount based around the Trojan horse event. As we then come towards the end of the year, the children will then be given the opportunity to write a reflection of the school year.  

Maths

Our learning this half term, will start with decimals - focusing on compliments to 1 and adding and subtracting decimals with different numbers of places. We will then move on to explore negative numbers. Once this is complete, we will then begin looking at measurement. We will convert between different measures (including between metric and imperial) and solve problems involving measurement conversion. Finally, we will look at calculating volume.  

History

Our topic for the rest of this year will be ancient Greece. Our learning in history will cover some of the key topics from that time including: Alexander the Great, the Olympics and Greek gods. Throughout our learning we will be challenged to use our understanding of chronological order and our source analysis skills.

Geography

Our topic in geography this term will revolve around trade. We are going to look in detail at what trade is and how it affects the world we live in. We will also look at the trade of the Ancient Greeks and discuss how it has changed.

Science

In science we will be exploring the topic of, Animals including humans. We will begin by comparing the life cycles of mammals and amphibians. We will then move on to looking at classification and learn all about how different animals are classified into different groups and categories, based on their characteristics. 

Art

The majority of our learning in art this half term will look at improving the mastery of certain techniques including drawing, painting and mark making. To do this we will look at some ancient pieces of art and attempt to replicate the techniques that have been used to create these.