Lesson 5: Fibre art

Combining fibre art skills learned during the unit and creating a finished weaving on their box looms.

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Lesson 5: Developing detail

Developing detail, pupils evaluate and improve artwork.

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Christmas craft: Salt dough decorations

Manipulating salt dough and using a range of tools to create a Christmas decoration.

Lesson 5: Flower designs

Refining drawing and colouring skills to create a design for a tissue paper flower.

Lesson 5: Creating animal sculptures

Shaping clay into animal sculptures; refining their ideas as they follow their designs and problem solving as they work.

Seasonal crafts

A craft for each season, including Easter and Christmas. 

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Spring craft: Petal mandala suncatchers

Summer craft: Salt painting

Autumn craft: Nature wreaths

Winter craft: Threaded snowflakes

Christmas craft: Salt dough decorations

Easter craft: Egg threading

Key skills

  • Talk about their ideas and explore different ways to record them using a range of media.
  • Experiment in an exploratory way.
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Key knowledge

  • Colour: Colours can be mixed to make new colours.
  • Form: Modelling materials can be shaped using hands or tools.
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Lesson 5: Drawing faces

Creating self-portraits by applying their observational skills, using mirrors to draw their faces carefully.

Lesson 5: Landscape collage

Developing an understanding of collage, children create landscape collages inspired by the work of Megan Coyle.

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ARCHIVED Year 6: Painting and mixed media: Artist study

Researching an artist of personal interest, including their life, techniques and artistic intentions.

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Option 2
Lesson 1: David Hockney – Option 1
  • To understand how to analyse a famous painting.
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Lesson 1: Richard Brakenburg – Option 2
  • To understand how to analyse a painting.

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Lesson 2: Paula Rego – The Dance

Lesson 3: John Singer Sargent – The Front Line

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Lesson 4: Fiona Rae – Option 1
  • To apply interpretation skills to analyse and respond to an abstract painting.

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Lesson 4: Frank Bowling – Option 2
  • To apply interpretation skills to analyse and respond to an abstract painting.

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Lesson 5: Lubaina Himid

Lesson 6: Research and planning

Lesson 7: Making art!

Key skills

  • Draw upon their experience of creative work and their research to develop their own starting points for creative outcomes.
  • Using a systematic and independent approach, research, test and develop ideas and plans using sketchbooks.
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Key knowledge

  • How to use sketchbooks to research and present information.
  • How to develop ideas into a plan for a final piece. 
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Key vocabulary

abstract

analyse

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