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Year 5

Making your mark: applying a style

I can apply different styles to my actions to bring my graffiti ideas to life.

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Year 5

Making your mark: applying a style

I can apply different styles to my actions to bring my graffiti ideas to life.

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Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. Move: performing actions to represent graffiti letters requires control, coordination and flow.
  2. Think: deciding on how to interlock different graffiti letters with our actions requires evaluation.
  3. Feel: giving honest feedback and supporting others to improve demonstrates integrity.
  4. Connect: respecting others involves creating our work in places where it is appropriate.

Keywords

  • Wildstyle - a specialised form of graffiti

  • Respect - due regard or admiration

  • Interlocking - when two (or more) things overlap / fit together

Common misconception

Pupils think that interlocking requires us to connect together using our hands and arms.

Interlocking involves two or more things fitting together or overlapping, which could be done using a range of different body parts.


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Using the imagery of jigsaw puzzle pieces fitting together can help pupils to visualise the term 'interlocking'.
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Equipment

Suggested music.

Content guidance

  • Risk assessment required - physical activity

Supervision

Adult supervision required

Licence

This content is © Oak National Academy Limited (2025), licensed on Open Government Licence version 3.0 except where otherwise stated. See Oak's terms & conditions (Collection 2).

Prior knowledge starter quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
How do Hip Hop dancers demonstrate respect during a dance battle?

Correct answer: watching attentively
chatting
looking away

Q2.
What does posture mean?

Correct answer: body position
body height
body speed

Q3.
What type of shape can we create with our body and our artwork that has sharp corners?

spiral
circular
Correct answer: angular

Q4.
Which is not a Hip Hop art form?

graffiti
dance
Correct answer: origami

Assessment exit quiz

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4 Questions

Q1.
Which is a specialised form of graffiti?

Correct answer: wildstyle
tamestyle
coolstyle

Q2.
What does creating work in places where it is appropriate demonstrate?

speed
strength
Correct answer: respect

Q3.
What is another word for ‘interlocking’?

separating
Correct answer: overlapping
spacing

Q4.
What cultural movement is graffiti art a part of?

Modernism
Grunge
Correct answer: Hip Hop

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