All Saints C of E School

As part of the Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead Museum Learning Project, Ms Strydom's Year 4 class from All Saints Church of England Primary School have been working on a 4 week project focusing on the Ancient Greek Olympics. 

We began the project by looking at the question 'what is art?'. After a discussion the students realised that there are many different art forms that we see everyday! They then created a mind map of all the different type of art forms associated with Ancient Greece - and there were lots of them! They listed things like sculptures, theatre and pottery!

We then learnt about the Panhellenic Games in Ancient Greece which were made up of the Olympics, Nemean, Isthmean and the Pythian Games. We talked about the link between art and the Olympics. In the modern day Olympics they used to have art competitions up until 1948!

We then looked at some different artists who had created artwork inspired by the Olympics.

Finally, we finished off by creating a 'random word poem'. We all wrote down as many words as we could think of that are associated with the Olympics on to pieces of card. We put them all into a box and each person picked out 10 words each. These words were then arranged into a poem! 

We then stuck them down onto paper and decorated them!