Art and D&T

Summer 2

Design Technology - Shell Structure

This will be linked to our Healthy Week, we will deisgn, make and then evaluate a structure suitable to carry our lunch.

Art & Design - Henri Roueau

We will learn about this French artist, his life, work and why he was such an important painter. We will apply some of his techniques to make our own rainforest pictures, linked to our geography theme                                

Summer 1

We will be working on the NEP Art Project, this year the theme is 'Pride', please look out for our class work, to be 
displayed at Baron's Quay. We will also be celebrating the 200th anniversary of the modern Railway and working on a railway art project.

Spring 1 

Art & Design - L.S.Lowry

The children will have the opportunity to explore the life and work of Lowry and to learn about the industrial landscape that provided the subject of many of his paintings. Each lesson in the unit focuses on improving a key skill in art and design; comparing works of art, colour mixing, perspective, drawing figures and drawing buildings. At the end of the unit children will have used their knowledge and skills to create a multimedia collage in the style of the artist.

Lowry Workshop 29.2.25

We worked with the artist Mandy to sketch and paint in the style of Lowry.

We worked on Lowry's Street Scene and The Stockport Viaduct:

Spring 2 

Design Technology - making simple circuits and switches

This is linked to our Science topic on Electricity.

Autumn 1

Charcoal - we will draw and explore using charcoal as a medium.

Creating a tonal range with charcoal -

Using charcoal to draw peppers.

Using charcoals to draw the Gorilla from our Literacy text.

Autumn 2

Design Technology - levers and linkages

This unit gives children opportunities to develop their understanding of mechanical systems. Following instructions on how to make different types of lever and linkage mechanisms gives children experience and information to draw on when developing their own ideas for a Christmas Card.

We started with a reverse motion linkage:

We then went on to parallel linkages and a push-pull linkage:

Next we put them together to make our snapping crocodiles: