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Year 4: Art and design Every picture tells a story

Develop children’s ability to analyse, unpick and understand works of art, using inference to suggest what different subjects may be thinking or feeling and predicting what might be happening in a scene and would could happen next. They also have the opportunity to create their own photo collages and abstract art inspired by the work explored

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Lesson 1: David Hockney: My Parents (Original scheme)

Analysing David Hockney’s, ‘My Parents’ using the the formal elements acting out the scene within it.

Learning Objective

To understand how to analyse a famous painting

Lesson 2: Paula Rego: The Dance (Original scheme)

Analysing Paula Rego’s 'The Dance' to discuss and justify opinions with reference to the formal elements

Learning Objective

To understand how to find meaning in painting

Lesson 3: Edward Hopper: Table for Ladies

Creating role-plays to view the work from another perspective; helping understand the story of the painting.

Lesson 4: Pieter Bruegel: Children's Games

Exploring Bruegel’s painting, 'Children's Games'; recreating as a modern photo collage.

Learning Objective

To develop analytical skills to respond to a painting 

Lesson 5: Fiona Rae (Original scheme)

Using Fiona Rae's work to develop understanding of abstract art, creating a piece to represent similar themes

Learning Objective

To apply interpretation skills to analyse and respond to an abstract painting

Lesson 6: Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper: Easter themed

Analysing Leonardo Da Vinci's 'The Last Supper' and responding via a choice of art appreciation activities.

Learning Objective

To understand how artists use art to tell stories and evoke feelings

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Art and design Year 2: Human form

Exploring how bodies and faces are portrayed in art: looking at the work of a number of artists, using their bodies to form shapes, creating collages, drawing portraits and creating a peg figure

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Lesson 1: Human alphabet

Children work as a group to position their bodies to make human letter forms.

Lesson 2: Skulls

Taking inspiration from decorated skulls in different cultures, children trace an image of a skull and then decorate it using a medium and pattern of their choice.

Lesson 3: Making faces

Children create a collage made up of different facial features that they have selected and cut from magazines.

Lesson 4: Opie style portraits

Children create a self-portrait using lines and dots, in the style of contemporary British artist, Julian Opie.

Lesson 5: Clothes peg figures

Having seen the work of craftsperson Edwina Bridgeman, children will be inspired to give a simple wooden peg a new lease of life, transforming it into a peg figure with a face, hair and clothes.

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Famous people in history

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Lesson 6: Research and planning

Researching an artist to understand their style and artistic intentions and planning an extended painted piece or presentation.

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Lesson 4: Weaving other materials

Using their weaving skills from the previous lesson and their tie-dyed materials from Lesson 2, children weave with fabric using a loom

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Lesson 6: Learning about the work of a curator (Original scheme)

After learning about the role of a 'curator', children curate an exhibition of their own based on either a collection of their most recently created art works or an exhibition designed for aliens, showcasing examples of objects commonly found on planet Earth

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Lesson 5: Hands on a cave wall (Original scheme)

Children work on a collaborative class piece of prehistoric inspired art, creating hand prints onto a textured background.

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Lesson 5: Tone 2: Shading from light to dark (Original scheme)

Continuing with their work on tone, pupils employ their patience to practice shading smoothly from light to dark, filling the outline and background of an animal template with tone, contrasting the background with the inside of the template

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