L S Lowry

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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Sporting Poems
Practise writing poems with patterned language and rhythm structures to describe movements and actions connected to different sports and games
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Food and Drink
Select powerful and descriptive vocabulary to use in poems describing different types of food and drink that can be enjoyed for a range of meals
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Sea Animals
Identify, describe and compare some of the different plants and animals that can be found living in a marine habitat including in the sea or on the beach
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Number Bonds to Twenty
Investigate and model how to use mental calculation techniques when working with concrete objects and diagrams to identify pairs of numbers that make sums to twenty