Melling Primary School
Art, Design and Display
‘Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.’
National Curriculum 2014
Teaching and Learning in Art and Design
at Melling School
Examples of Melling Knowledge Organisers and Road Maps:
Useful Websites
TATE GALLERY - A BRILLIANT ART WEBSITE FOR CHILDREN:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids
ACCESSART - we are members of this organisation at Melling. This charity is full of information, ideas and inspiration!
ART FOR KIDS HUB:
https://www.artforkidshub.com
BBC BITESSIZE ART AND DESIGN:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects
THE ARTFUL PARENT:
https://artfulparent.com/kids-arts-crafts-activities-500-fun-artful-things-kids
How can you encourage Art at home?
Get messy!
Try to make a collection of drawing and painting resources and let your child get creative. Paints, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, play dough and much more...throw down an old tablecloth or newspaper and get creative!
Use household objects creatively
You could also get creative using things around the house –for example, use pasta to create collages.
Keep a sketch book
Encourage your child to keep a sketch book. Let them take it with them when they go out so that they can look for things to sketch – a tree, a building, the seaside. You could also try taking a photo to take home to use later.
Celebrate homemade art
Praise your child’s creations and encourage them not to get disheartened if they feel they have made ‘mistakes’. Remember art is creative and the aim is to try out different things - there is no right or wrong way to do things. Don't forget to frame some work using coloured paper or card - you could even create a gallery wall.
Talk about art and enjoy art together
Visit art galleries or museums with your child. Discuss what you see and share your opinions – about subject matter, colours, materials, feelings etc.
Melling Art Gallery
The children at Melling always work hard on art projects and would love for you to see some of their excellent work.
(CLICK ON ANY IMAGE TO ENLARGE IT)
Drawing
Year Six
We did careful drawings with intricate detail, inspired by our study of Stephen Wiltshire.
Our artwork using felt tip pens was inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. We were careful to use colour and pattern effectively.
Year Five
Combining textiles in Art and D.T.
Drawing
We used the Graphic Designer Jen Aranyi as our inspiration for this drawing and painting work.
Collage
We explored the effects of layering tissue paper to make suncatchers.
Painting
We mixed lots of paint colours for our paintings inspired by studies of space.
3D Art
We made Easter paper creations with careful origami skills.
Origami Mothers Day Cards
We used our paper folding and cutting skills to create cards for Christmas.
Year Four
Drawing
We used coloured pencils to draw Day of the Dead masks in our R.E. work.
We used careful observation and drawing skills to create Roald Dahl illustrations.
We used our drawing skills to create dragons' eyes that looked as lifelike as possible.
We practised our drawing skills with these self portraits.
Painting
Illustrations in the style of Quentin Blake
We painted using work by Pierre Auguste Renoir as our inspiration.
3D Art
Anglo-Saxon Pottery
Year Three
Drawing
Stone Age Axes using 2B, 6B and 9B pencils
We practised our observation and drawing skills by drawing facial features.
Drawing Facial Expressions
We explored different marks to see which ones to use for our mountain drawings.
Exploring Mark Making
Mark Making Hands
Careful Self Portraits
We carefully drew the facial features to show different emotions.
Chalk Pastel Pictures
We drew with warm coloured paint, chalk, oil pastels, felts and coloured pencils.
Digital Art
We used expressions photographs to create photo montages.
Mosaic Images Created on Chromebooks
Collage
We created collage suncatchers when we were studying light.
Printing
Painting
Stone Age Cave Paintings
We studied Cubism in Art such as the work of Picasso.
3-D Art
We have had fun creating sculptures in human form.
We designed and made Rio carnival masks.
Sketchbooks
Exploring shading by drawing rocks
Observing and drawing light and shadows with 3D shapes
Studies of Alma Thomas
Warm and Cool Colours
Year Two
Drawing
We practised our skills by observing carefully and drawing the other half of these pineapples.
We created Mandala patterns using coloured pencils, thinking carefully about our pattern designs.
Painting
Aboriginal Style Rock Painting
We did colour mixing of warm colours and painted silhouette pictures for the Great Fire of London.
Year One
Drawing
Exploring Mark Making
We used careful drawing skills to do our self-portraits.
Collage
We can tear, scrunch and roll paper to make collages of Spring trees.
We did paper collages on the theme of sunshine as part of our work on seasonal change in Geography and Science.
Printing
We printed snowy trees for winter.
Painting
We mixed primary colours to make secondary colours.
We painted carefully to create some original work inspired by Wassily Kandinsky Squares with Concentric Circles.
We did colour mixing with the paints to create rainbows.
3D Art
We explored sculpture and made clay pinch pots. First, we practised shaping some clay in different ways.
We visited the GAIA EARTH ART Installation at St.Chad's Church in Kirkby.
We made our Chinese Dragon puppets with big moving mouths for the Chinese New Year celebrations.
Reception
Drawing
We did observational drawings of the chicks.
We drew Funnybones skeletons for Halloween with chalk pastels and added art straws for bones.
Do you recognise us from our crayon self-portraits?
Collage
We created farm animals for our visit to Farmer Teds.
We created collage and painted poppies for Remembrance Day.
As part of our Harvest activities, we made seed collages.
Printing
We learnt about printing by doing vegetable prints.
Painting
We studied van Gogh and created a collaborative piece.
We love painting in YR and we painted scarecrows for Autumn.
Our study in paints was inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
3D Art
We made clay candle holders for Diwali, making them look special for this special celebration.
We made baskets by weaving paper when we read the Little Red Riding Hood story.
We did lots of art and craft for Chinese New Year.
DISPLAY AT MELLING
At Melling we know that everything we see, all that is visual, is a fundamental part of our daily experience. It can move us, make us proud, make us think and support us with our learning in our daily school life.
