Sewing the Seasons

• The children will learn how to thread a needle.
• How to sew using a running stitch.
• The children will be challenged to pick an appropriate fabric and colour for their chosen season.

Christmas Card Design

• Use a variety of controlled and fine-brush skills and techniques using inks or watercolours.
• Introducing how to control wet colours and bleeding into them with other colours to create interesting effects.
• Diagonal brushstrokes and flicking and twisting the end to achieve a quality finish. Metallic paint applied using handle of brush in a stippling-style technique.

Still Life Painting

• Explore the effect on paint of adding water, glue, sand, sawdust and use this in a painting.
• Represent things observed, remembered or imagined, using colour selecting appropriate paint and brushes.
• Use a viewfinder to select a view and visual clues in an image, then record what is in the frame
• Plan the use of a camera to take a specific photo or set of photos
• Building upon painting techniques from previous years, learn about specific techniques such as impasto.
• Learning when and how to use different brushes for varying purposes using acrylic paint.

Mayan Mask Making

• They will develop the following techniques: painting, cutting, folding, sticking.
• Learning how to apply to paint to a functional object (mask).
• Represent things observed, remembered or imagined, using colour selecting appropriate paint and brushes
• Introduces different types of brushes for specific purposes
• Improve skills of overlapping and overlaying to place objects in front and behind
• Cut multiple shapes with scissors and arrange /stick these on a surface for a purpose

Roman Clay Coil Pot

• Building on clay manipulation skills children apply these skills in a more controlled and precise way and using modelling tools to enhance work: rolling, coiling, score, slip, stick.
• Use clay to construct a simple functional form such as a coil pot, smoothing and joining clay with care.
• Build in clay a functional form using two/three building techniques and some surface decoration

Representing Form via Drawing:

• To show light and dark and depict form and depth using shading techniques
• Light and darks – creating form using chalk and charcoal.

Roman Portraiture/Busts – Drawing a Profile from a Photo

• Using photography and shadows - tracing to capture an accurate image.
• Adding detail then reducing scale digitally.
• Plan the use of a camera to take a specific photo or set of photos
• Uses line, tone, shape and mark with care to represent things seen, imagined or remembered.
• Experiment with creating mood, feeling, movement and areas of interest using different media.
• Use a painting program to make an image corresponding to their work in painting and digital collage to create a portrait in profile.

Shang Dynasty Inspired Art - Wax Etchings

• New technique of etching requires fine drawing skills which adds to drawing skills learnt in previous projects.
• Introducing textures and effects from drawing upon different materials.
• Observe patterns from vases and artefacts.
• Recreate a pattern inspired by vases from the Shang Dynasty.

Watercolour Landscapes

• Applying paint in a different way to that of the impasto techniques that were previously taught.
• Using water as a basis for the painting from water washes; applying with a wide brush (not previously introduced).
• Observing and learning how the paint behaves differently to other paints to create different effects and textures.