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Year 6

Charting self: exploring portrait and identity

4 lessons

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Made in collaboration with October Gallery, in this unit pupils express personal identity through portraiture, material, memory and imagination. Pupils create textured paintings, symbolic surfaces, close-up feature portraits, and expressive self-maps that combine journey and face.

This Year 6 unit supports pupils as they reflect on identity before transitioning to secondary school. Linking emotion with creativity, it explores how culture, history, and place shape us. Pupils build confidence through artist study, expressive making, and personal exploration.

  1. Painting a portrait with colour and feeling
  2. Layers and symbols: surface, texture and identity
  3. Patterns in medieval art
  4. Raised portraits: representation through dots and relief

  • Pupils have explored working with line, colour, paint and mixed materials
  • Pupils are aware that art can carry meaning, symbolism and personal stories
  • Pupils have some experience drawing the human face or features
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