y5/6 teachers - what is your topic for next term?

[LaBelleDameSansPatience]

I have just started a job share in a large mixed-age y5/6 class. This term we had a great topic - Pakistan - which allowed for loads of learning about Islam, lots of geography, art, cultural awareness, etc.
Next term we will be doing Ancient Greece. I cannot think of a topic that would motivate me less. My jobshare has said that he would consider any other good topic if I could come up with an idea.
So what do you do???

[hardboiled]

Sorry probably not very helpful but change problem solving currency from pounds to drachmas, or set the scenarios of the problems in Ancient Greece...as in how many spartans in the battle, etc? For grammar, link it to writing Greek myths. Speling link vocab to topic, adjectives describing/comparing the life of ancient greek rich child to that of a slave, vocab linked to architecture?

[LaBelleDameSansPatience]

Yes ... Greek prefixes .... scenarios in Greece ... I have found some problems linked to Archemides ... my L6 mathematicians might even solve the Greek currency crisis!

Am slowly seeing possibilities.

[mrz]

English words that have Greek roots
phob - fear
phot -light
phon-sound
metr - measure
kil-thousand

Pythagoras the father of numbers?

[LaBelleDameSansPatience]

Yes, we could be on to something!

[hoodoo12345]

My yr5 DS has done Tudors and Victorians so far.

[LaBelleDameSansPatience]

Nice topics, Hoodoo, but they did Tudors in y4 and Victorians last year (mixed 5/6 class).

[LaBelleDameSansPatience]

No, what's that??