Lesson Six – Castle Flag
This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to practise printing a range of different shapes and patterns to produce the design for a flag that can be flown on top of a castle representing its inhabitants.
The class can suggest and model how to improve their flag design by using other materials to produce repeating patterns and shapes representing the matching requests for a castle.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise printing a range of different shapes and patterns to produce the design for a flag that can be flown on top of a castle representing its inhabitants
Activities in this teaching pack include a shared reading text to identify the design for a castle flag to match suggested requirements and a set of cards to describe some of the special shapes, colours and patterns that have been used in different flag designs for a castle.
The interactive presentation can be used to explore and model how to print shapes and patterns to produce a flag that can be flown on top of a castle.
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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