Create Project – Does art reflect the world around us?

During the summer term we will have a creative focus on ‘the arts’ which includes both art and music.

In art, we will explore ‘sculpture and 3D’ by using clay to design and represent homes and houses in the world around us. Children will learn to use the ‘scratch and slip’ technique, to join clay by ‘impressing’ and ‘joining’ and to add detail and pattern to their artwork in different ways.

Children will also explore map making through ‘craft and design’. They will investigate maps as a stimulus for drawing before using and making a range of materials to create and communicate their own maps, reflecting the world around us. This links nicely to the work we did in Geography as part of our ‘Explore’ project and will give us lot of opportunities to revisit this learning.  

In music, children will explore the big question through the following units:

• Inventing a Musical Story

Music is used for many reasons and can help us to tell a story and express our feelings. Music can be loud or soft, fast or slow, smooth and connected, or short and detached. We can also use instruments with different sounds to help communicate a story and different emotions.

• Exploring Improvisation.

Exploring the structure of songs is interesting and important. There are patterns in songs that you will recognise. Listening, singing, playing and improvising are some of them. Introduction, verse, and chorus are some more. Throughout this unit, children will enjoy learning how to improvise within a range of different types of music.

More information can be found in this term’s project placemat.