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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    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