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Year 2

Art that travels: stories, land and journeys

4 lessons

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Made in collaboration with October Gallery, this unit explores how art shares stories across time and place as pupils cut, sculpt and collage maps into textured journeys of movement, exchange, identity and belonging.

Each lesson centres on transformation: paper becomes sculpture, maps become textured stories, clay becomes travelling figures, and patterns become sails filled with meaning. Alongside sensory exploration, pupils encounter stories from the Silk Road to West Africa, reimagining borders not as lines but as pathways of exchange. The unit honours how ideas and materials travel, celebrating art as a shared language of place, journey, and belonging.

  1. Cutting stories with paper
  2. Create a history map
  3. Clay travellers: figures from the Silk Road
  4. Collage sails: pattern and identity

  • Experience cutting out shapes
  • Pupils have explored simple shaping in clay
  • Pupils have used crayons or pastels
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