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Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Show knowledge of the language and literacy to describe lines.
- Show control when using string and chalk to draw lines.
- Experiment with a range of mark-making techniques, responding appropriately to music.
- Colour neatly and carefully, featuring a range of different media and colours.
- Apply a range of marks successfully to a drawing.
- Produce a drawing that displays observational skill, experimenting with a range of lines and mark making.
Suggested prior learning
Drawing: Marvellous marks
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Lessons
Lesson 1: Exploring line
Lesson 2: Making waves
- To apply features of abstract art.
Lesson 4: Mark making
Lesson 5: Drawing from observation
Key skills
Generating ideas:
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Key knowledge
Formal elements:
- Shape:
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Key vocabulary
2D shape
3D shape
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Unit resources
Knowledge organiser: Art & design: Y1 – Drawing
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Vocabulary display: Make your mark
A display version of the vocabulary from the unit Make your mark.
*New* Knowledge organiser: RSE & PSHE – Year 1 Economic wellbeing
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Cross-curricular opportunities
Music
Science: Animals, including humans
Mathematics: Geometry – properties of shapes
Build on the learning
Drawing: Tell a story
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