School Workshop: Ancient Greece and the Edenauts (year 5 and 6)

Workshop overview

In Ancient Greece, tyrants have placed the small town of Eden under siege and are demanding that the town’s people give away their precious olive groves. Your class joins the Edenauts on a journey across Ancient Greece, where they must complete several challenges in order to rally the support of the gods and the protection of the 300 warriors of Sparta. Can the Edenauts save their beautiful town?

What happens in the workshop

Your students are placed in the thick of the action as residents of the besieged Ancient Greek town of Eden. Zeus agrees to help the Edenauts, but only if they can complete the various challenges set for them by the Gods of Olympus.

Your students journey through the Mediterranean Biome completing a series of challenges based around Greek mythology, plants and daily life in Ancient Greece. Each challenge tests a different skill - sensory, musical, physical, scientific thinking, observational and proprioception.

Back in the classroom the students have to crack a puzzle using the objects they have collected from Ancient Greece. They must then engage in a democratic process to decide what to do about the tyrants and communicate their decision to Zeus with some help from the musical genius, Orpheus.

Visiting teacher

“ One of the most educationally rich venues to have taken groups to visit. I would hope all pupils at our school could visit on a rite of passage. ”

Practical information

This workshop enables students to:

Describe what day to day life was like for people in Ancient Greece. How did they use plants for food, clothing and shelter?
Understand how important mythology was to the Ancient Greeks and meet some of the important characters.
Explain how ways of thinking about the world developed in Ancient Greece

We've designed the workshop to complement the following syllabuses:

KS2 History National Curriculum - Pupils should be taught about: Ancient Greece – a study of Greek life and achievements and their influence on the western world.

The workshop costs £8.50 per pupil with a minimum charge of £170 per group (includes VAT). Maximum group size is 35. The cost includes:

a facilitated workshop with our Education Team
free access to the Eden site for the day
all equipment needed for the workshop
free teaching resources enabling your class to prepare for the workshop and to follow up on the activity
a personal welcome from the Education Team at the entrance
a base for your bags in our purpose-built education centre, The Core
a space to eat your own lunch

The price includes free entry for accompanying adult helpers, whose participation is essential to the success of the day (please note our suggested adult/pupil ratios are as follows: Early Years Foundation Stage, 1:3; Key Stage 1, 1:6; Key Stage 2 and 3, 1:10; Key Stage 4, 1:15; Key Stage 5, 1:20). You’re welcome to bring more helpers if you’d like. Additional helpers are charged at our group booking rate.

We also offer a free preparatory visit to Eden for teachers wanting to plan their school trip, which should be booked in advance.