Year 3 Introduction week 1 Portraying ideas lesson 1 Double portrait lesson two Someone near to me Colour wheel Paula Rego art sketch book Van Dyck and David Hokney Photographic examples

Van Gogh's Starry Night - colour and assemble picture

Make designs for different needs, chair for head teacher, chair for student, chair for mass transport, chair for a king and chair for a super hero. Pick idea and make a paper model out of straws only. Share model with small group of 4-5. Group come up with a single design. Scrounge broken/old chairs from school or community. Children first protect chairs with paper and tape. They then build with card over the top of the chair. They focus on back, seat, arms and legs. After this, cover in paper mache. Finally paint, decorate and put on display! Topics also included: homes and structures.

Journeys, Unit 4c QCA, a painting project. I start by looking at traditional aboriginal art and symbolism. We looked and compared the work of Paul Klee and talked about whether art can be read like music and words. We then looked at ordinance survey maps and reading signs, we thought of shared and common signs compared to unique and personal signs. We made a series of sketches marking a familiar journey we take. The children then had various activities to portray their journeys in a variety of ways. I finished by looking at the modern aboriginal artist Emily Kngwarreye (ne-warry-eye). Younger children love her work because she became famous at 80 and spent her millions on cars! We took her two main styles, dotty and rainbow and applied her painting style to our own work. We added symbols in our work to reflect our journey. It is a fun project. Topics also available: still life.

Autumn Year 3 Weekly Plans Portraying relationships W1 - 10 Simple lesson plans based on QCA unit Portraying relationships

Spring Year 6 weekly plans what a performance W1 - 9 Simple lesson plans based on what a performance

4A Viewpoints My dream world Dream sequence Surrealist art sketch book Viewpoints Photographic examples.

Pattern lesson 1 Line symmetry Patterns Henri Rousseau Henri Rousseau Motifs Photographic examples Escher blank tesselating equilateral triangle Esher fish bat lizard equilateral triangle

In this unit, we looked at the work of Eadweard Muybridge, then using Lomo cameras (see lomographic society www.lomography.com ) we took photographs of our selves in motion. The lomos are good because they have 4 lenses to capture movement. Lomos capture movement like the work of Muybridge. We then used digital copies of our photographs and manipulated them in the ICT lab. After that we made studies from the photographs capturing movement, referring our drawings to the futurist Umberto Boccioni. We finished by studying Juming and his Tai Chi series www.juming.org.tw/juming-en/index2_en.html Then children then had a tai chi session and drew poses, from that they made 3D card tai chi sculptures which were covered in modroc and painted stone colour.

Simple grids outlining the key objectives in the QCA units. Topics also include: assessment.

Where the wild things are - Maurice Sendak - Art + Literacy week Power Point Lesson plan Wild things template Children complete wild things using template

5b Containers Containers design Containers Ukrainian eggs Ukrainian Easter eggs Faberge Faberge examples Year 5 vocabulary

Spring Year 5 containers W1 - 9 Simple lesson plans based on containers. 

Autumn Year 4 Weekly Plans Viewpoints W1 - 10 Simple weekly plans based on the QCA unit Viewpoints

Autumn Year 5 Weekly Plans Objects and meanings W1 - 10 Simple weekly plans based on the QCA unit Objects and meaning.

Summer Year 5 Weekly Plans Talking Textiles W1 - 8 Simple lesson plans based on QCA Talking Textiles

Spring Year 3 Weekly plans Investigating Patterns W1 - 9 Simple lesson plans based on Investigating Patterns

Keith Haring Activity Children make a 3D Keith Haring Dog. Copy template onto card. Children assemble and make a stand for their Keith Haring dog. They may decorate their dog any way they like - superhero, weather, food, patterns etc. This is a whole school project as it looks most effective when displaying hundreds of Keith Haring dogs.

5a Objects with meaning lesson 1 Still life lesson 2 Painting lesson 3 colour wheel Photographic examples Chinese peasant painting style

5c Bayeux tapestry Starting points To investigate and combine visual qualities Minotaur Minotaur and border Visual reference Photographic examples The Cyclops in the caves, from the epic poem The Iliad Visual reference for The Cyclops in the cave.

Summer Year 3 Weekly Plans Environmental sculpture W1 - 8 Simple lesson plans based on QCA unit can we change place? Topics also inlcuded: around the British Isles; enviroment.