Lesson 3: Expressive painting
Exploring how colour and expressive brushstrokes can communicate identity.
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Learning objective
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National curriculum
Cross-curricular links
Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1. Recap and recall
This activity revisits learning from earlier lessons in this unit, such as Lesson 2: Personality portraits, to help the children recall key vocabulary.
Hand out whiteboards and pens. Show the Presentation: 3, 2, 1. Read each prompt aloud and give the children time to record their responses.
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Adaptive teaching
Assessing progress and understanding
Vocabulary
In this unit
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Maintained by: Kapow Primary teamLast update: 4 September 2026
