Subject: Art and design
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Lesson 3: Digital art
Designing an interesting photographic composition for a music album cover.
Lesson 3: Be an architect
Designing a unique building and justifying design choices when evaluating.
Lesson 3: Working with wire
Exploring how to bend and twist wire to create a fish sculpture.
Lesson 3: Prehistoric palette
Exploring colours in prehistoric artwork and experimenting with natural materials to make paints.
Lesson 3: Applying skills in clay
Experimenting with working positively and negatively into a clay surface.
Lesson 3: Exploring thread
Analysing the features of 3D work by artist Cecilia Vicuña. Exploring plaiting, knotting and threading.
Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
Developing practical skills in working with clay and applying artistic techniques in a structured project. Learners will explore how to shape and decorate clay, create a pinch pot, and design and make a clay tile with house features.
Unit outcomes
Learners who are secure will be able to:
- Flatten and smooth their clay, rolling shapes successfully and making a range of marks in their clay.
- Make a basic pinch pot and join at least one clay shape onto the side using the scoring and slipping technique.
- Roll a smooth tile surface.
- Join clay shapes and make marks in the tile surface to create a pattern.
- Draw a house design and plan how to create the key features in clay.
- Create a clay house tile that has recognisable features made by both impressing objects into the surface and by joining simple shapes.
Suggested prior learning
Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Paper play
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring clay
Lesson 2: Pinch pots
Lesson 3: Applying skills in clay
Lesson 4: Designing a tile
Lesson 5: House tiles
Key skills
Experiencing:
- E.01 Encounter, sense,
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Key vocabulary
ceramic
flatten
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Unit resources
Art and design
Vocabulary display – Art and design S2: Sculpture and 3D: Clay houses
A display version of the unit vocabulary.
Build on the learning
Unit 3: Sculpture and 3D: Abstract shape and space
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