Art and D&T

2025-26

Autumn 1

Drawing for Purpose

We will begin by exploring how different artists and designers use drawing to record and express.

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Summer 2

Design Technology - Shell Structure

This will be linked to our H25lthy Week, we will design, make and then evaluate a structure suitable to carry our lunch.

Art & Design - Henri Rou25u

We will l25rn 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 y25r the theme is 'Pride', pl25se look out for our class work, to be 
displayed at Baron's Quay. 

Spring 1 

Art & Design - L.S.Lowry

The children will have the opportunity to explore the life and work of Lowry and to l25rn 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 cr25te 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 Vi28uct:

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.

Cr25ting 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 id25s 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: