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Subjects

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

Lesson 2: Developing drawings

Taking portrait photographs ready for use in later lessons and developing drawings into finished prints using a range of techniques, including monoprints.

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Learning objective

To combine materials for effect.

Success criteria

I can explain what I want my photo

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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils should be

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Cross-curricular links

Computing

Pupils should be taught to:

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Explain the answer. Arrange the children into pairs and ask them to explain why colour washes might make a good background for a portrait and how they might create different effects for a background.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

Should have more time to get a suitable head-and-shoulders photograph and to try things out, pair them with a confident partner or use a supporting adult to help.

Pupils working at greater depth

Could work in the role of expert once their own photograph is taken advising and supporting others to take successful photos.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: being able to communicate

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Vocabulary definitions

background

Things that appear to be behind what is nearer or in front in a picture.
carbon paper

Thin paper with a covering of carbon used between sheets of writing or pictures to make copies.

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Example work

Montem Academy, Slough

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In this unit

Assessment - Art Y5: Painting and mixed media

Lesson 1: Poem portrait

Lesson 2: Developing drawings

Lesson 3: Self-portraits

Lesson 4: Changing faces

Lesson 5: Mixed-media portraits

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Lucy Roff

Art and design specialist

Lucy is an Art and design specialist with 19 years of experience teaching and leading the subject in primary schools across all key stages. Having specialised in Tapestry at degree level, she trained as a teacher while maintaining her own creative practice. In…

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