Summer - Create Art

This term our topic is...

Challenging Ideas with Art

Does Art Show Real Life?

Can Art Change Cultural Stereotypes?

Representation - Perspectives - Stereotype - Diversity - Acceptance

We will be exploring the work of Monet in the first half term to learn about impressionism. Impressionists paint an impression of "real life", however we ask, if artists are painting what they see, is this real life? Is art a version of reality? Can art show what is really there?

In the second half term we will be learning about African Art. We will be asking the question, Can Art Change Cultural Stereotypes? We will be exploring traditional and contemporary art to answer this question. We will be using ModRoc and Batik techniques to create African masks and patterns. 

• English:  our class novel, "The Fastest Boy in the World" by Elizabeth Laird, will help us to bring this topic alive in our English lessons. We will be writing biographies about artists, stories, debates and balanced arguments and information texts. The grammar we will learn this term includes the subjunctive tense, clauses and editing skills. 
• Maths: we will be following the Maths Mastery approach to learn about fractions, decimals, percentages, angles and translation, properties of shapes and converting units.
• PSHE: this term will be exploring relationships and bullying. 
• Science:  we will be learning about humans and animals (puberty, growth, human timelines and reproduction) and habitats. 
• Art:  we are exploring Monet and African artists to help answer our concept questions. We will be using watercolours, charcoal, ModRoc and fabric, wax and dyes to create our Batik.
• D.T: we will be investigating bridges and how to construct bridges with a moving part using a pulley or lever. We will be working with wood and wood glue. 
• Computing:  we will be following a scheme of work to complete our coding learning. 
• P.E:  this term we will be doing tennis, rounders and athletics. Our last swimming session before the Year 6 complete their distance awards is Monday 9th May.