Key Stage 1 Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK

Artists - NEW LOOK

History

• To learn about the life and work of the artist, Vincent van Gogh, and identify differences between life when Van Gogh was alive and life today.

English

• To answer questions by retrieving information from a story.
• To ask questions about a story and write these down, using capital letters and questions marks correctly.

Enquiry question
Who was Vincent van Gogh?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Read a story to learn about the life of Vincent van Gogh.
• Identify some differences between life when Van Gogh was alive and life today.
• Generate questions and understand research may be needed to find the answers.
• Punctuate questions correctly and take part in a role-play situation.

Art

• To understand some of the events that took place during Van Gogh’s life and what inspired him.
• To use oil pastels firmly and with confidence to build up texture, and to apply a wash gently and evenly.

History

• To understand historical concepts such as continuity and change, cause and consequence, similarity, difference and significance by exploring why Van Gogh’s paint colours changed when he moved from the Netherlands to France.

Enquiry question
How did Vincent van Gogh’s work change throughout his life?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Understand that Van Gogh’s use of colour was influenced by his surroundings.
• Use oil pastels with a wash to make an oil resist picture of sunflowers.
• Gain understanding of composition by basing our work on Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting.

Art

• To know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
• To understand some of the events that took place during Van Gogh’s life and what inspired him.
• To express feelings about a painting and explore it by copying the style and composition.

Enquiry question
What can we find out about The Starry Night?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Learn about some of the events that took place during Van Gogh’s life.
• Explore Van Gogh’s The Starry Night and discuss our thoughts and feelings about the painting.
• Produce our own pictures based on The Starry Night.

History

• To learn about the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements.

Art

• To examine and compare paintings of rural and industrial landscapes.
• To start to understand who Lowry was and what he painted.

Enquiry question
What can we learn from Lowry’s paintings?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Find out who Lowry was and explore examples of his paintings.
• Understand that an artist’s work is affected by when and where they live.
• Learn what the words ‘rural’ and ‘industrial’ mean and compare their features.
• Use a frame to investigate and draw elements of a painting.

History

• To identify similarities and differences between life today and the period when Lowry was alive.

Art

• To explore and discuss the stories in Lowry’s paintings.
• To paint people in the style of Lowry.

Enquiry question
What was life like in Lowry’s time?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Explore what life was like when Lowry was alive, and make comparisons with our lives today.
• Look in detail at some of Lowry’s paintings and try to interpret the narratives being told.
• Paint people in the style of Lowry to form part of a whole-class painting.

Art

• To make comparisons between the lives and work of Van Gogh and Lowry, and recognise some of the difficulties both artists faced.
• To paint buildings inspired by the industrial landscapes in Lowry’s paintings.

History

• To understand how paintings can provide clues about what life is like today and was like in the past.

Enquiry question
Why didn’t some people appreciate Van Gogh and Lowry’s paintings?

Outcomes
Children will:

• Discuss the struggles that artists sometimes have to make their work understood and appreciated.
• Look in detail at the industrial landscape in some of Lowry’s paintings.
• Paint buildings to go with our Lowry-inspired figures to create a whole-class painting.