Charcoal worlds: draw, smudge, imagine

Art and design

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

What material did we use in this lesson to draw?

What word means the feeling or mood in a picture?

Match the charcoal skill to what it helps with.

Think about the feeling you want (happy/spooky/calm).

Use charcoal lines and marks to show that feeling.

Add smudging, shadows and light areas to your drawing.

Put these ideas in order to show how atmosphere is created.

What word means to rub and blur your drawing?

using lines, dots or shapes to create a picture

Put these drawing steps in the right order.

What material can you roll, shape, and build with?

Charcoal worlds: draw, smudge, imagine

Lesson outcome