Viking Pots

This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to develop and refine art and design techniques when working with clay to make pots that represent Viking culture and traditions. The class can create and decorate clay thumb pinch pots which could be used by the Vikings.

Develop and refine a range of different art and design techniques when working with clay to make pots that represent Viking culture and traditions

Lesson One : Pots and Jugs
Explore and record the appearance, function and decoration of some different containers and vessels that have been produced from clay

Lesson Two : Viking Art
Investigate how to research and illustrate examples of some of the special shapes and patterns that have been used on a range of different Viking artefacts

Lesson Three : Clay Impressions
Investigate and practise using some of the tools and equipment that can be used to create different shapes and patterns when working in clay

Lesson Four : Pinch Thumb Pot
Explain and model how to design and make a clay pot adding different patterns and shapes to represent Viking culture and traditions

Lesson Five : Viking Designs
Explore how to select and paint a range of different patterns on modelled clay pots to represent Viking culture and traditions from the past

Lesson Six : Viking Pot Reviews
Investigate how to review completed clay pot constructions and decorations using a set of chosen success criteria to identify changes and improvements
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Viking Pots
Develop and refine a range of different art and design techniques when working with clay to make pots that represent Viking culture and traditions
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Bronze Age
Research and illustrate how life in Britain developed and changed during the Bronze Age including the growth of communities and trade
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Future World
Practise using apostrophes correctly in matching sentences to describe some of the things that might be owned by families in the future
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