MrJennings

This week, in our history topic about ancient Greece, we have been thinking about the jobs of craftsmen. We learned about the range of crafts which were existed in ancient Athens and about how Pericles felt that every craftsman should be paid the same rate to work on municipal projects. We took the role of a historian to use pictorial evidence to describe and explain how an Athenian would be able to buy a pair of shoes to fit him and then looked at the job of the potter and artist in some depth. We tried to recreate pictures using the "black figure ware" and the "red figure ware" techniques.

Our maths has covered a range of areas including calculator work measures of weight (including converting measures from one unit to another - e.g. kilogrammes to grammes), measuring angles with a protractor and finding areas of rectangles.

We completed our design technology topic on bridges by finishing our final bridge structures and then testing them - to destruction! The "winning" structures supported over 5 kg and one even supported 7 kg and had a strength to weight ratio of more than 60.