This week Y3 caught the train into the city centre to visit Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery as part of our new topic ‘Gods and Mortals’. This topic based around the Ancient Greeks.

At the museum we first got to explore the Ancient Greek gallery, where we had to find different the Greek equivalents of everyday objects, e.g. a perfume bottle and mirror. Y3 also found out more about each of the different gods and designed an offering for them.

Next Sarah, the museum teacher took us to do some Greek themed art. First we explored the red figure technique by painting an owl design, as a gift for Athena, the goddess of wisdom. Both techniques were used by the Ancient Greeks. Afterwards We got to design an amphora pot with a geometric design. Our designs were then scratched onto a final piece to imitate the black figure technique.

A big thank you to Kaeb’s mum and also Shaimaa’s mum for accompanying us.