This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage One gets the children to replicate the painting style used by British artist by creating a scene of the playground to match artwork by L S Lowry. The class can explain how to use colour shades, perspective and figure shapes when painting in the stye of Lowry.

Explore and replicate the painting style and techniques used by a famous British artist by creating a scene of the school playground to match artwork by L S Lowry

Lesson One : Lowry’s Life

Explore the life and work of L S Lowry by investigating his artwork of an industrial scene

Lesson Two : Colour Shades

Identify and record colour shades that have been used to represent places in paintings by Lowry

Lesson Three : Factory Sizes

Practise using perspective to record the size and distance of objects in artwork

Lesson Four : Matchstick Figures

Explore and record how to sketch figures using simple shapes to emulate artwork by Lowry

Lesson Five : School Playground

Paint a scene of the school’s playground and buildings to emulate the artwork style of Lowry

Lesson Six : Lowry Gallery

Suggest changes and improvements to artwork so that it emulates the painting style of Lowry

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    Number Doubles

    Model and record how to double different numbers to twenty using concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to support calculations

  • Zoo Animal Doubles

    Zoo Animal Doubles

    Practise doubling different numbers of animals that might be seen at a zoo recorded in words and digits to ten using diagrams and number lines to model each product

  • Doubles Facts

    Doubles Facts

    Identify, match and record the doubles of different numbers to ten using concrete equipment and repeated addition to support each multiplication number calculation

  • Tower Doubles

    Tower Doubles

    Practise counting and doubling different numbers of cubes that have been used to make a range of towers to five, ten and fifteen