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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 4: Changing faces

Considering how a self-portrait could represent something important about an artist; experimenting with materials and techniques, and recording ideas in sketchbooks.

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Learning objective

To develop ideas towards an outcome by experimenting with materials and techniques.

Success criteria

I can justify my opinion when discussing the

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National curriculum

Art and design

Pupils

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Cross-curricular links

None.

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Before the lesson

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Lesson plan

Recap and recall

Display the Presentation: Cops and robbers and ask the children to write down as much as they can remember about Chila Kumari Singh Burman. They then need to move around the classroom looking at others’ ideas, ‘rob’ these and write any ideas they missed on their whiteboards.

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Adaptive teaching

Pupils needing extra support

May benefit from having fewer materials to choose from or by being guided towards materials they will feel confident using; may find it easier to work with an A3 photocopy of their photo.

Pupils working at greater depth

Should be encouraged to consider the message they would like their portrait to convey about themselves and make choices about materials and composition that link to this; could support less confident pupils to make choices about their portraits.

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Assessing progress and understanding

Pupils with secure understanding indicated by: using some art vocabulary

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Vocabulary definitions

atmosphere

The mood of an artwork, for example, mysterious or joyful.
collage

Cutting, arranging and sticking materials like paper, fabric etc to a background.

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Example work

Gledhow Primary School

Child's portrait artwork changing a photo

Gledhow Primary School

Photo portrait altered drawing over the top

Gledhow Primary School

Child'd photo portrait altered with drawing.

Sayes Court Primary School

Haimo Primary School, London

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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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