Learning objective

  • To work collaboratively to plan and create a sculpture.

Success criteria

  • I know that 3D sculpture can be created
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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Explain that the children will work with a partner to remember and describe how to create a 3D Tree of life sculpture. Display the Presentation: Fact tennis and arrange the children in pairs. Ask them to take turns describing the techniques they used and how they made different parts. Let them know they should keep…

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Could roll the paper around a pencil to get it started; could sit in a place where they are able to see the Pupil video: Giant spider model clearly and watch it on loop to help understand how to make and join the newspaper rolls.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should suggests ways to make sure the model is strong and even, such as adding more rolls to a leg if it is too thin or bendy; could explain why newspaper is a good or poor choice for a sculpture based on its properties such as easily shaped but weak.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: recognising that 3D sculpture can be

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Vocabulary definitions

  • roll

    To bend a piece of paper around to make a tube.

  • sculpture

    Art in three dimensions.

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Simon Chubb

Art and design specialist

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Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The Cartoonists Club of…
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