Letter to parents - Ancient Greece project

Below is a letter which the girls brought home today. 

Dear Parents,

The girls will be learning about Ancient Greece when they return to school after the half-term. They have already done an introductory lesson about Ancient Greece. As part of their learning on this topic, the girls will be undertaking a project, at home, about Ancient Greece. The project is due on Monday 14^th March. I would like the project to be presented in a scrapbook. Please find below a list of the topics which we will be covering in school. The girls may like to use these topics to guide them when writing their project. I would like the girls to include a bibliography of the sources they have used. As the girls have learned in school, Wikipedia is not a reliable source and should be avoided. I have included below a list of websites which the girls may find useful when researching their projects.

I would also like to remind the girls that it is not acceptable to copy and paste from internet sites. As you are aware, the girls have done work in school and for their homework on taking notes and using these notes to write reports and instructions and we will continue to work on this over the coming term. I would encourage the girls to take notes on what they have read and then to present their information in their own words. This is a difficult concept for many children and so I would appreciate your support in helping the girls to compose the information they are presenting in their own words.

Topics to be covered:

·         Greek toys

·         Greek clothes

·         Music and mosaics

·         The Greek feast

·         Society in Ancient Greece

·         Slavery

·         At home in Ancient Greece and Greek families

·         Greek gods

·         Greek mythology (including writing myths in creative writing)

·         Temples and palaces

·         Theatre, plays and performances

·         School in Ancient Greece

·         The Olympic Games

·         The influence the Ancient Greeks had on our world.

Useful websites

·         BBC bitesize

·         BBC Primary History

·         Woodlands Junior School Kent

·         National Geographic Kids

·         Children’s University of Manchester

·         dkfindout.com

·         (A little more advanced) The British Museum

On a separate note, we have organised to take the girls to a talk on the 9^th of March (in the Mill Theatre in Dundrum) given by Katherine Rundell as part of the Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Mountains to Sea Book Festival. Katherine Rundell won the Waterstone’s Children’s Book Prize and the Blue Peter Award in 2014, as well as being shortlisted for many other prestigious prizes, for her book ‘Rooftoppers’. She will be presenting a talk entitled ‘Going Wild: Wolf Stories’ in which she will talk about her novel ‘The Wolf Wilder’ and the wolves of Russia. The girls may like to read ‘The Wolf Wilder’ before going to the talk. The author will also be available to sign the book on the day, and if time permits, the girls may have an opportunity to get their book signed if they have brought a copy of the novel. However, as I often say to the girls, “Pie crust promises are easily made and easily broken” so this will depend on time on the day.