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Southborough Church of England Primary School

Southborough Church of England Primary School

Art Gallery

Welcome to our art gallery. We hope you enjoy looking at our amazing artwork.

AUTUMN TERM 1 2024 

Year 2 Autumn Term 1 2024 

 

Art Unit: Still Life

This project teaches children about the work of significant still life artists and still life techniques. They explore a wide variety of still lifes and learn about the use of colour and composition. They create still life arrangements and artwork.

Year 4 Autumn Term 1 2024 

 

DT Unit: Warp and Weft

This project teaches children about the artform of weaving and how it has developed over time, including the materials and techniques required to create woven patterns and products. The children made their own flower looms from paper plates and made these beautiful weavings.

Year 5 Autumn Term 1 2024 

 

ART Unit: Tints, Tones and Shades

This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and exploring mixing tints, shades and tones. They learn about significant landscape artworks and features of landscapes before using this knowledge to create winter landscape paintings and drawings.

Year 6 Autumn Term 1 2024 

 

ART Unit: Trailblazers and Barrier Breakers

This project teaches children about significant black artists and their work, and provides opportunities to analyse and create artwork inspired by them.

SUMMER TERM 6 2024 

Year 2 Summer Term 6 2024 

 

DT Unit: Cut, Stitch and Join

This project teaches children about fabric home products and the significant British brand Cath Kidston. Y2 learnt about sewing patterns and using a running stitch and embellishments before making a beautiful sewn bag tag.

Year 4 Summer Term 6 2024 

 

DT Unit: Tomb Builders

This project teaches children about simple machines, including wheels, axles, inclined planes, pulleys and levers, exploring how they helped ancient builders to lift and move heavy loads. Y4 had great fun making their simple and comped machines.

Year 5 Summer Term 6 2024 

ART Unit : Expression

This project teaches children about the Expressionist art movement and the 'Father of Expressionism', Edvard Munch. Y5 explored different ways to portray feelings and emotions in art to create an imaginative self-portrait.

Year 6 Summer Term 6 2024 

 

ART Unit: Distortion and Abstraction 

This project teaches children about the concepts of abstraction and distortion. Y6 studied the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting in the style of Robert and Sonia Delauney.

SUMMER TERM 5 2024 

Year 2 Summer Term 5 2024 

Art unit: Portraits and Poses

This project teaches children about portraiture. They analyse the portraits of Tudor monarchs and compare Tudor portraits and selfies today. They use photo editing software to create royal portraits.

 

 

Year 4 Summer Term 5 2024 

Art unit: Islamic Art

This project teaches children about the features of Islamic art. They make geometric patterns and motifs on paper using watercolours and other drawing media. 

Year 5 Summer Term 5 2024 

Art Unit: Mixed Media

This project teaches children about paper crafts, papermaking and collage techniques, including paper, fabric, mixed media and photo collage. They use their learning to create a final piece of small-scale, mixed media collage.

Year 6 Summer Term 5 2024 

Art Unit: Abstraction and Distortion

 

This project teaches children about the concepts of abstraction and distortion. They study the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting inspired by Sonia and Robert Delaunay.

SPRING TERM 4 2024 

Year 2 Spring Term 4 2024 

DT unit: Beach Hut

This project teaches children about making and strengthening structures, including different ways of joining materials.

 

Year 4 Spring Term 4 2024 

Art unit: Animal

This project teaches children about the historical and cultural portrayal of animals in art. They study the visual qualities of animals through sketching and clay modelling.

Year 5 Spring Term 4 2024 

DT unit: Architecture

This project teaches children about how architectural style and technology has developed over time and then use this knowledge to create a semi 3D Greek temple with specific features. We also created stunning pen and ink drawings of the three orders of capitals: doric, ionic and corinthian.

Year 6 Spring Term 4 2024 

DT unit: Make Do and Mend

This project teaches children a range of simple sewing stitches, including ways of recycling and repurposing old clothes and materials. We used recycled materials to make British flags which will displayed to celebrate the Paris Olympics.

SPRING TERM 3 2024 

Year 2 Spring Term 3 2024 

Art unit: Flower Head 

 This project teaches children about the visual elements of flowers, including shape, texture, colour, pattern and form. They also explore various artistic methods, including drawing, painting and 3-D forms, making paper sculptures. 

Year 4 Spring Term 3 2024 

 Art unit: Vistas 

This project teaches children about the techniques that artists use when composing landscape images, such as colour and atmosphere. 

 

Year 5 Spring Term 3 2024 

 Art unit: Light, Line and Shadows 

This project teaches children about the visual qualities of line, light and shadow. They explore the work of Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt and are introduced to a range of shading techniques. They take black and white photographs and use pencil, pen and ink wash to reimagine their photographs in a shaded drawing.