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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 2 2023

Year 2 Autumn Term 2 2023

DT Unit: Push and Pull

This project teaches children about three types of mechanism: sliders, levers and linkages. They make models of each mechanism before designing and making a greetings card with a moving part.

Year 4 Autumn Term 2 2023

 

Art unit: Function and Fancy Fabrics

This project teaches children about home furnishings and the significant designer William Morris. They learn all about designing a motif inspired by William Morris and then go on to create their own printing block.

The children learn all about printing patterns such as wey, trellis and diamond, and use these to create their wallpapers.

Year 5 Autumn Term 2 2023

 

DT unit: Moving Mechanisms.

This project teaches children about pneumatic systems. They experiment with pneumatics before designing, making and evaluating a pneumatic toy to entertain their friends.

Year 6 Autumn Term 2 2023

 

DT unit: Engineer

This project teaches children about remarkable engineers and significant bridges, learning to identify features, such as beams, arches and trusses. They complete a bridge-building engineering challenge to create a bridge prototype.

AUTUMN TERM 1 2023

Year 2 Autumn Term 1 2023

 

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 2023

ART 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.

Y4 classes made their own llama looms in order to weave these rather cute creations!

Year 5 Autumn Term 1 2023

 

Art unit: Tints, Tones and Shades

This term's 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. 

Year 6 Autumn Term 1 2023

 

Art unit: Trailblazers and Barrier Breakers

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

SUMMER TERM 6 2023

Year 2 Summer Term 6 2023

ART unit: Cut, Stitch and Join

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

Year 3 Summer Term 6 2023

ART unit: People and Places

This project teaches children about the genre of figure drawing. They study the figure drawings and urban landscapes of the artist LS Lowry and create artwork in his style to create scenes from Tunbridge Wells.

Pen and ink drawings of Tunbridge Wells architecture

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Year 5 Summer Term 6 2023

ART unit: Mixed Media and Tints, Tones and Shades.

This project revisits and combines knowledge and skills learnt in two previous terms. The children create a large-scale collaborative mixed media collage using paint and fabric.

 

 

Year 6 Summer Term 6 2023

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 an abstract painting.

SUMMER TERM 5 2023

Year 2 Summer Term 5 2023

ART unit: Portraits & 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.

Y2 Pastel drawings of regal portraits

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Year 3 Summer Term 5 2023

ART unit: Mosaic Masters

This project teaches children about the history of mosaics, before focusing on the colours, patterns and themes found in Roman mosaic. The children learn techniques to help them design and make a mosaic border tile.

Year 4 Summer Term 5 2023

ART unit: Islamic Art

This project teaches children about the features of Islamic art. They make geometric patterns and motifs on paper, with fabric and in clay. They use their learning to create a high relief clay tile, decorated with geometric patterns.

Year 6 Summer Term 5 2023

ART unit: Bees, Beetles and Butterflies 

This project teaches children about sketchbooks, observational drawing and mixed media collage. They consolidate their learning to make a final piece of artwork inspired by bees, beetles or butterflies.

SPRING TERM 4 2023

Year 2 Spring Term 4 2023

DT unit: Beach Hut

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