Heathrow Primary School
Heathrow Primary School
Year 6
Autumn Term
From the Ancient Maya to modern-day street art, Year 6 looked at how artists convey a message. Exploring imagery, symbols, expressive mark making, and ‘chiaroscuro’ the children considered audience and impact to create powerful drawings to make their voices heard. Click on the link below to see our wonderful work.
Spring Term
As artists, children will look at a range of artists including David Hockney, Paula Rego, John Singer Sargent, Fiona Rae and Lubaina Himid. Children will understand:
- To use narrative and use descriptive language to tell a story
- Suggest ideas for meaning behind certain paintings.
Children will research different artists and from this will use this as inspiration to create their own final piece of work.
Summer Term
In this unit, as artists, children explore:
Creative photographic techniques
Create new images through photomontage
Understand photorealistic self-portraits
Apply digital photography to art design
Enhance their skills in composition and editing.
Explain how a new image can be created using a combination of other images
Select relevant images and cut them with confidence and a level of control.
- Attitude
- Achievement
- Aspiration