Exemplar Primary Art Curriculum – Year Six

Exploring Sketchbook Design

The Exploring Set Design resource offers an exciting range of activities including drawing and making, and asks children to consider what makes a “dramatic” image and how they can create a stage set with drama. The project also helps children explore the links between literature, language and the visual arts.

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Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards

The Shadow Puppets and Whiteboards resource builds upon the notion of storytelling and narrative from Autumn 1, and introduces character. Design and create shadow puppets and use the classroom whiteboard as a stage.

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Graphic Inky Still life

The Graphic Inky Still Life resource develops observational drawing skills and introduces new media (ink and foamboard). The drawings develop into 3d sculptures to build a group still life.

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Still Life Drawing in a Cubist Style Using Carbon Paper

The Still Life Drawing in a Cubist Style Using Carbon Paper resource develops ideas about still life and introduces a print making elements as a way to enable creative and experimental thinking.

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Exploring Portraits

The Exploring Portraits resource enables an exploration of portraiture from drawing to relief, through an unconventional journey.

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Page to Panel – How to Make Manga

The Page to Panel – How to Make Manga resource takes its inspiration from literature and storytelling and helps pupils develop their ideas about narrative and character into storyboards and Manga style graphic drawings.

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Conquering SATs Stress with Seats

The Summer term is a very busy term for most Year 6 classes. The Conquering SATs Stress with Seats resource is the perfect way to relax through making and balance intellectual thinking with hands on making.

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Fruit Pinch Pots

The Fruit Pinch Pots resource describes how to make a pinch pot / cup inspired by fruit forms. Starts by making drawings from fruit and then develops ideas about form and decoration. With or without a kiln.

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Wave Bowls

Continue your exploration of vessel making with the Wave Bowls resource. A craft and design based project which starts small and simple and enables pupils to develop exciting organic decorative structures.

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Tool Box

The Tool Box series of resources describes a 7 week exploration of the creation of a fairground type game, from initial ideas to development and final outcome. Not only does this project bring together a whole range of collaborative making skills, it also develops communication and marketing skills. The finished games can be used at an end of term fundraiser.

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