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Year 4

Clothes and culture: wearable art

4 lessons

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Made in collaboration with October Gallery this unit brings together diverse visual languages from across time and place, encouraging children to see wearable art not simply as adornment, but as a powerful form of communication, one that celebrates identity, and gives voice to stories that matter.

This unit explores how clothing, sculpture, and pattern can express identity, memory, and resistance. Pupils investigate the body as both subject and structure, using wrapping, dressing, sculpting, and printing to tell visual stories rooted in personal and collective experience.

  1. Wrapping a sculpture: hidden stories
  2. Masque: sculpture, clothes and messages
  3. Clay beads: meanings and patterns
  4. Printing symbols: banners and identity

  • Pupils have experience with sculpture using paper, card, or tape
  • Pupils have experience of drawing from observation or memory
  • Pupils have an understanding of simple pattern, shape, and repetition
  • Pupils have some familiarity with the concept of identity or self in art
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