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An introduction to creative crafts and experimentation with paper weaving

Exploring paper crafts

Taking inspiration from artists and craftspeople

Selecting and using materials and techniques for craft making

Finishing touches and evaluation of craft work

Creative craft

An introduction to clay work - Slabbing and joining

Pinching and coiling - Adding details

Sculpting in clay

Gathering ideas and making an art work from clay

Finishing touches and evaluation of clay work

Ceramics

Artists who use the rainforest as inspiration for their artwork

Make frottage leaf studies

Collage skills using the rainforest as inspiration

Draw the rainforest: studies of plants and leaves

Explore the shades, textures and colours of a rainforest

Paint a rainforest

Pupils will learn about different artists who used forest scapes as their subject. They will create rubbings and make a collage from  objects they have collected, before making observational drawings and developing and realising their own rainforest painting.

The Rainforest: drawing and painting

Monsters in myths and film

Design a monster

Plan a monster animation

Make a modelling clay monster

Make your monster move - stop motion animation

Edit and complete a stop motion animation

This design and make unit has links with the creative industries. Pupils will identify and study monsters in film and paintings, before realising their own imaginative concepts into models and animation.

Monsters: sculpture and digital design

Sketchbook research: artists who have assembled materials to make sculpture

Sketchbook research: insect, animal and bird studies and designs

Sculpture: make a maquette

Select and assemble recyclable materials to make a creature

Sculpture: refine and finish creature creations

Make a tonal study of a sculpture

Pupils will combine readily available scrap items into model animals, learning how to construct through assembling materials. They will develop their ability to draw and shade 3-dimensions

Creature Construction: sculpture

Draw and observe insects in detail

Refine and prepare drawings for print

Insect printmaking: monoprint

Insect printmaking: block print

Make a repeat pattern print

Insect printmaking: Chine collé

Pupils will explore the world of insects up close, recording their observations using line drawing techniqes. They will develop these drawings through a number of print processes, before creating and realising a design for surface print.

Insects: drawing and printmaking

Research robots in art

Design a robot

Create a maquette of a robot

Sculpt a robot using recyclable materials

Refine and evaluate a robot sculpture

Make a tonal study of a robot sculpture

In this unit, pupils design and make a robot using recycled materials. They will investigate robots in film and TV, and create their own recycled robot using construction techniques.

Recycled robots: drawing and sculpture

Patterns in nature

Investigating patterns in art

Creating a pattern using a square grid

Create a kaleidoscope pattern

Design and make a pattern motif

Print a repeat pattern using a motif

Pupils will create a range of art outcomes based on the theme of patterns. They will look at patterns in the natural world and investigate how pattern and decoration forms a fundamental part of art making. They will make a pattern motif and use it to create their own repeat pattern.

Perfect Patterns: drawing and design

Charcoal worlds: draw, smudge, imagine

Balance and print: telling stories with everyday things

Art installation: sculpture you can walk through

Clay landscapes: hand building towers together

Made in collaboration with October Gallery, the unit looks at how materials can be transformed into imagined and shared stories. Pupils create new worlds and think about how art can shape and celebrate real ones. They investigate how public art holds stories of pride, memory, and transformation.

Imagined spaces and shared stories

Art and design

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