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Understanding the creative industries

Exploring dyeing

Exploring print design

Exploring weaving

Exploring embroidery and stitch

Exploring appliqué

This unit starts by offering pupils insights into diverse career opportunities within the creative industries, looking at Fashion in more detail. It leads into a textiles unit exploring different elements of textiles and fabric manipulation

Textiles and the creative industries

Architecture through time and place

Architectural materials: experimenting with form

Becoming inspired: developing an architectural design

Playing with colour in architecture and interiors

Technical drawing techniques to communicate ideas

Telling a story: pitching ideas to an audience

Pupils will explore architecture and the built environment, learning about form, volume, domestic and public buildings, cultural structures, and materials. Lessons will enhance understanding of architectural principles, appreciation for styles, and skills in perspective drawing and design.

Being curious about spatial design and architecture

Exploring biomorphic sculptures using papier mâché

Responding to organic forms with card, papers and modroc

Thinking in 3D, carving with soap

Exploring 3D art materials with casting (paper and plaster)

Exploring 3D construction techniques with clay

3D Design: displaying a sculpture

Pupils will explore sculptural forms, delving into organic and human made forms through 3D art. They will enhance their 3D thinking, source inspiration, and experiment with various materials. Pupils will learn technical techniques, modeling, and construction methods.

Being curious about 3D design

Abstract art: painting using different stimuli

Mark-making using different tools

Mark-making: matching technique to stimuli

Mark-marking: preparing the surface for painting

Abstract marks: respond to stimuli by painting

Abstract art: dry materials in response to stimuli

Pupils will develop their understanding of abstract painting and make more sophisticated connections. They will build confidence in taking risks with new ideas, look at different tools and techniques, and learn to communicate with symbols and marks.

Abstract painting: sustainable materials

Artists that print from objects

Playing with monoprint

Designing printing plates; transferring the design

The printing of the plates: reduction printing

Selecting and rejecting ideas: using a gelli plate

Working into and refining prints

Pupils will develop essential print making skills, explore connections between media and materials. They will learn to control various printmaking tools and be aware of the sustainability of their materials. They will recycle tetrapak and card to make their print blocks.

Being curious about printing

Exploring collage and composition through portraits

Exploring memory through the world of assemblage

Playing with collaging and relief through landscape

Planning and developing collage inspired by our hobbies and interests

Developing and refining collages to represent home.

Creating and refining an abstract collage

Pupils will develop their collaging skills and showcase their strengths. They will learn about the different between using the metholody as part of the process or as the technique. They will explore how to place images together and develop compositional skills as well as be playful with ideas.

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These lessons will be removed by the end of the Spring Term 2026.