Clay landscapes: hand building towers together

Art and design

Charcoal worlds: draw, smudge, imagine

Balance and print: telling stories with everyday things

Art installation: sculpture you can walk through

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

A tall structure that stands up high above the ground

A small ball of clay that is used to decorate pots

A painting on paper that is of a landscape

What does a ‘continuous line’ mean when building with clay?

What is an ‘armature’ used for in clay sculpture?

Broken glass, pottery, shells, tiles, and wire found or recycled

What materials did Simon Rodia use to build his towers?

Scratch the ends of the coils with a brush

Put slip on the scratches and join the clay together

Put these steps in the right order to construct a clay coil tower:

What is a long, rolled piece of clay called?

Music and sounds used to create a performance

Cut, fold, scrunch or rip them again and again

Use the same colours or shapes to make them flow

What can you do to your materials when making art?

Put these steps in the right order for using repurposed materials:

Clay landscapes: hand building towers together

Lesson outcome