Southborough Church of England Primary School

Art Gallery

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

SUMMER TERM 5 2025

Year 2 Summer Term 5 2025

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.

The children have enjoyed working in chalk and oil pastel learning blending techniques.

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Year 4 Summer Term 5 2025

This project teaches children about printing and collage. The children have been making lovely observational drawings of buildings from our local community and turning these drawings into printing blocks.

The children have enjoyed working on a collaborative printed artwork which will be displayed in the Summer arts exhibition

Year 5 Summer Term 5 2025

This project teaches children about paper crafts and collage techniques, including paper, fabric, mixed media and photo collage.

They will use their learning to create a final collaborative piece of mixed media collage in term 6, this work will form part of our annual arts exhibition in July.

Year 6 Summer Term 5 2025

DT: Make Do and Mend

Y6 children continued with their T4 project 'Make Do and Mend' this term in order to create stunning artworks ready for our annual art exhibition in July. This project teaches children a range of simple sewing stitches, including ways of recycling and repurposing old clothes and materials. We have also been exploring what 'community' means to us and how communities were brought together during WW2. The children have been designing and making fabric badges that they would award to members of our local community.

SPRING TERM 4 2025

Year 2 Spring Term 4 2025

DT: Beach Hut

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

Year 4 Spring Term 4 2025

ART: Animal

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

Year 5 Spring Term 4 2025

DT: Architecture

This project teaches children about how architectural style and technology has developed over time and then use this knowledge to design a building with specific features.

Year 6 Spring Term 4 2025

DT: 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 have also been exploring what 'community' means to us and how communities were brought together during WW2. The children have been designing and making fabric badges that they would award to members of our local community.

SPRING TERM 1 2025

Year 2 Spring Term 1 2025

ART: 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, printmaking and 3-D forms, using paper and clay.

Year 4 Spring Term 1 2025

ART: VISTA

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

Year 5 Spring Term 1 2025

ART: LINE, LIGHT AND SHADOW

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.

Year 6 Spring Term 1 2025

ART: ENVIRONMENTAL ARTISTS

This project teaches children about the genre of environmental art. They study how artists create artwork that addresses social and political issues related to the natural and urban environment. Children plan and develop ideas for recycled ocean-art, creating sea creatures from recycled plastic bottles and scrap papers.

AUTUMN TERM 2 2024

Year 2 Autumn Term 2 2024

DT: Push and Pull

his 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 2024

DT: Functional and Fancy Fabrics

This project teaches children about home furnishings and the significant designer William Morris. They learn techniques for decorating fabric, including block printing and embellishments and use these techniques to design and make a fabric sample.

Year 5 Autumn Term 2 2024

DT: Moving Mechanisms

This project teaches children about pneumatic systems. They experiment with pneumatics before designing, making and evaluating a pneumatic machine that fits a design brief.

Year 6 Autumn Term 2 2024

DT: 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 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.