Landscapes
This art and design scheme of work for Key Stage Two gets the children to develop and practise different painting techniques when creating a landscape portraying a scene in the local area as part of the school neighbourhood. The class can mix colour shades showing colours that might be visible in the sky at sunrise or sunset.
Develop and practise different painting techniques when creating a landscape portraying a scene in the local area as part of the school neighbourhood
Lesson One : Colour and Light
Explore and record how artists can use a range of special colour shades to suggest different times of the day that can be represented in paintings
Lesson Two : Tree Shadows
Practise selecting and adding some different shaped shadows to show how light can fall on objects that have been depicted and modelled in paintings
Lesson Three : Colour Swatches
Investigate and record how to select and mix a range of different colour shades to work with in a landscape painting depicting a specific time of the day
Lesson Four : Sunrise and Sunset
Practise selecting and mixing a range of colour shades that can be used to reflect some different times of the day in artwork of a landscape
Lesson Five : School Landscape
Practise creating a painting of the school’s landscape working with some special colour shades to reflect and depict a special time of the day
Lesson Six : Landscape Reviews
Investigate how to review and suggest improvements to landscape paintings in terms of the use of light and shadow that can be worked with to depict a special time of the day
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Changing Seasons
Investigate changes that can happen to the natural world during the four seasons of the year and reflect on similar changes that can occur in people’s lives
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Chinese Dragons
Select and combine different mouldable and other materials to create masks representing dragons that can be worn during a performance dance
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Suffix Combinations
Identify and record how to build a range of special words by using different combinations of roots and suffixes
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Ancient Greek Games
Explore the development of the Olympic Games that began during the history of Ancient Greece and make comparisons with modern competitions