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Belfield CP School Lesson plan

Lesson		Year group	Term	Lesson Length	Lesson
Art		2	Spring 1	2 Hours	1 of 6
Aims / Outcomes
Use different materials and techniques to paint. Know about the artist Frank Stella, his techniques, art and his inspiration for the pictures. Collectively produce a relief collage.
Key Vocabulary
Artist Frank Stella Collage Relief ‘Materials’ and the names of the materials used.

Introduction
Over the next two weeks tell the pupils that they will be producing a relief collage based on an artist called Frank Stella. Give them the background on Frank Stella That he lives in America, born in Massachusetts 1936 He is still alive
Main Activities
Tell the pupils that: We will be looking at a certain type of painting he produced a number of years ago around 1970 His inspiration – Brazilian birds, with bright colours and the shapes of the birds outline, beak and eye. That he does not produce pictures as they look, he takes different parts and muddles them around to make a collage – (describe collage) he then stacks the images on top of each other to make a piece of relief work. (describe relief) Show the pupils various pictures that he has produced as a hard copy or on the IWB as a Powers Point Presentation. Look in further detail at some of the shapes, how they have different textures. Tell the pupils that we are going to create the different textures and styles using various materials and our hands with paint, we will then cut the shapes out next week again in the style of Stella and stick them onto the wall to produce a relief collage. On the wall have a blank canvas for a number of pupils to use rollers and create the background for the collage. Other pupils paint using various materials and techniques quickly demonstrated by the teacher/TA onto large sheets of paper shared between 3-4 children.
Plenary
Quick recap on the class artist questioning pupils as to what they remember.  Question what they through about the various techniques, if they thought they looked attractive, why? If not, why? What techniques were hard to do, why? Tell them that they will be continuing this work next week.

Resources		Assessment Evidence
Teaching Assistant Paint Various materials including sponge, cork and bubble wrap. IWB PPP of Pictures by Frank Stella		Q & A Paintings and techniques used
Cross Curricular Links	SoW / NC ref and level	Differentiation	EAL
Science Numeracy Geography	Art 1a, b, 2a, b, 3a, b, 4a, b, c, 5a, b, c, d.	Q & A Support given Outcome	Oracy 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11.

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