Learning objective
- To explore how primary colours mix to make new colours.
Success criteria
- I can name the primary colours.
- I can explain
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National curriculum
Art and design
Pupils should be
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Cross-curricular links
None.
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
Recap and recall
Show slide 1 of the Presentation: Oscar’s painting. Remind the children of the painting that Oscar created in the unit Art and design, Year 1, Painting: Learning about paint and brush control. Explain that Oscar was disappointed because his colours did not look bright and clear. Pair the children and ask them to think of…
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support:
- Could use larger, chunkier brushes to support control when mixing colours.
- Could use the Knowledge organiser to support identifying and labelling colours.
- Could use prepared colour labels to match and stick next to their colour mixtures.
Pupils working at greater depth:
- Should switch between different tools to explore a range of ways to mix colours and compare the effects.
- Should express opinions about the colours they create and explain their preferences (for example, ‘When I mixed red and blue together, I could see I had made this deep purple’).
- Should explain the meaning of the term primary colour using their own words (for example, a primary colour is a colour that cannot be made by mixing other colours together. The three primary colours are red, yellow and blue).
- Could annotate their experiments by recording which colours were mixed together.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding can:
- Name and identify all three primary colours.
- Explain that
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Vocabulary definitions
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mix (EYFS)
To stir together.
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primary colour (Y2)
A colour that cannot be made by mixing other colours: red, yellow and blue.
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Lesson 4: Using paint in different ways
Exploring the ways paint can be used to create different effects.
Lesson 2: Primary and secondary colours
Exploring colour mixing and creating a range of secondary colours in paint.
Assessment – Art and design Y2: Colour mixing – Coming soon
Assessment quiz for use at the start and/or end of the unit to assess pupil...
Lesson 3: Creating secondary colours for a purpose
Learning to mix secondary colours with a paintbrush and palette.
