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Art and design Computing Design and technology French Geography History Music Physical education Spanish Religion and worldviews RSE & PSHE Science Wellbeing

Lesson 3: Printing with paint

Using building blocks and other everyday objects to create prints; painting and stamping their blocks to create patterns, pictures and letters and combining colours on the page, explaining the choices they make.

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Learning objective

To explore colour when printing.

Success criteria

I can use a variety of colours in

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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Cross-curricular links

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Arrange the children into pairs. Display slide 1 of the Presentation: 3, 2, 1. Ask the children to tell their partner three things they learnt about colour from the last lesson.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

May find it easier to print with individual objects rather than creating a printing block; may need suggestions for placing the blocks in a pattern onto the flat building block base.

Pupils working at greater depth

Can be challenged to overlap their prints and describe the results; should create a pattern or design with their prints.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: using a range of colours when

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Vocabulary definitions

kaleidoscope

A tube which contains loose pieces of paper or plastic and mirrors which show changing patterns as it is turned.
pattern

Pattern is a design in which shapes, colours or lines are repeated.

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Example work

Montem Academy, Slough

Child printing with building bricks and paint

Montem Academy, Slough

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In this unit

Assessment - Art and design Y1: Painting and mixed media

Lesson 1: Making colours

Lesson 2: Painting with colour

Lesson 3: Printing with paint

Lesson 4: Exploring colour mixing

Lesson 5: Clarice Cliff plates

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Simon Chubb

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Simon is a teacher, cartoonist and artist. He uses his 25 years of experience to teach art in schools and has his own workshop business ‘Scartoons’ in which children create comic characters and strips. Simon is a member of The Cartoonists Club of…

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