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Festive Decorations
This art and design scheme of work for all year groups gets the children to investigate how to shape and combine different materials to produce a selection of decorations to celebrate the festive season. The class can describe how other decorations have been made to use some of the ideas in their own artwork.
Santa’s Reindeer
Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of one of Santa’s reindeer for a Christmas decoration
Santa’s Beard
Practise cutting and shaping different types of paper and other materials to produce a picture of Santa Claus for a Christmas decoration
Advent Boxes
Select and shape a range of different materials to make a set of cube shaped decorations that can be used to count down to Christmas
Christmas Wall Trees
Practise shaping and combining a selection of different materials to produce a 3D decoration of a Christmas tree that can be displayed on the classroom wall
Bottle Candles
Combine and shape a range of different materials to create a table top candle decoration to celebrate the festive seasons
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Cities, Towns and Villages
Research and present the history of a range of different buildings and people that are part of the local community using a school exhibition
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Recycling
Research and present some of the benefits and disadvantages that can be produced when recycling different materials at home and in school
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Van Gogh
Investigate and replicate the work and painting style of a famous artist from the past by producing a matching landscape of the school building
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Harbour Labels
Practise structuring and formatting different word processed documents to describe a range of ships and boats seen in a harbour