Lesson Five – School Playground

This art and design teaching pack for Key Stage One gets the children to compose and paint a scene of the school’s playground and buildings to emulate the artwork style and techniques of Lowry.
The class can suggest how to mix colours, add figures and use perspective when creating their landscape painting scenes in the same style as Lowry.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to compose and paint a scene of the school’s playground and buildings to emulate the artwork style and techniques of Lowry
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the painting style of Lowry to compare with other artists and a shared reading text to follow a set of instructions to paint a scene of the school to emulate the artwork style of Lowry.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explain how to paint a scene of the school’s playground and buildings to emulate the artwork style of Lowry.
This lesson can support development in 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and an interactive presentation to introduce concepts and key skills.
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