Lesson Four – Castle Emblems
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise printing different shapes and patterns for a castle’s flags by using string to make an impression that can produce a specific flag design.
The class can explain and model how to select and print the design for a special a coat of arms using different shapes that can be used to represent ideas and themes about the school.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise printing different shapes and patterns for a castle’s flags by using string to make an impression that can produce a specific flag design
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe some of the different shapes and patterns that have been used in a design, a shared reading text to select and print patterns and shapes for a flag design and a template to print the design for a coat of arms to represent the school.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to print different shapes and patterns for a castle’s flags by using string to make an impression.
This lesson is part of an art and design scheme of work to get the children to explore and test different methods of printing shapes and patterns that can be used to make the design for a flag to fly on top of a castle. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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