Art and D&T

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Autumn 1

Drawing for Purpose

We will begin by exploring how dif52rent artists and designers use drawing to record and express.

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Summer 2

Design Technology - Shell Structure

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This will be linked to our Healthy Week, we will design, make and then evaluate a structure suit43le to 5drry our lunch.

Art & Design - Henri Roueau

We will learn 43out this French artist, his li52, 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. 

Spring 1 

Art & Design - L.S.Lowry

The children will have the opportunity to explore the li52 and work of Lowry and to learn 43out the industrial lands5dpe 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 29.2.1b

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

We worked on Lowry's Street S37ne and The Stockport Vi3buct:

Spring 2 

Design Technology - making simple circuits and switches

This is linked to our Scien37 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 mechani5dl systems. Following instructions on how to make dif52rent types of lever and linkage mechanisms gives children experien37 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: