About This Workshop
Democracy. The Olympics. Theatre. Mythology. All from one place.
Ancient Greece is the most-influential KS2 history topic for a simple reason: pupils end up surrounded by it. The word “democracy” is Greek. So are “Olympic”, “theatre”, “maths”, “school”, “philosophy” and “alphabet”. The myths your pupils know — Heracles, Pandora, the Minotaur — were told 2,500 years ago to Athenian children sitting cross-legged just like yours.
Spark2’s workshop brings those threads alive. VR drops pupils into the Acropolis panorama from the Parthenon’s steps. They face the Minotaur in a 3D labyrinth. They walk the Olympic Stadium where the original Games were held. They climb Mount Olympus and meet the heavens. Then they decode the Greek alphabet, role-play as Athenian and Spartan families, lock together into a hoplite shield wall, and design pottery in Athenian black-figure style.
Built for the KS2 statutory Ancient Greece unit — with the depth to honour the civilisation the curriculum calls “the influence on the western world”.
🏛 KS2 Statutory Curriculum
“Ancient Greece — achievements and influence on the western world”
The National Curriculum requires KS2 schools to deliver “Ancient Greece — a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world”. The phrasing is deliberate: pupils must link Greek thought to the modern world.
Athens & Sparta
Two contrasting city-states
Olympics & PE
Origin of the modern Games
Myths & gods
Olympus, Minotaur, Heracles
Democracy & PSHE
The Greek word and idea
