Exemplar Primary Art Curriculum – Year Three

Quentin Blake’s Drawings as Inspiration!

The Quentin Blake’s Drawings as Inspiration! resource enables children to make figurative drawings from life, inspired by Blake’s own work. Encourages children to really look at the figure and it’s personality/activity in order to make drawings which communicate intention.

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Sculptural Characters Inspired by Dahl and Blake

The Sculptural Characters Inspired by Dahl and Blake resource shares a session in which children make and develop their favourite characters inspired by literature and visual arts.

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Making Drawings Move

Make simple drawings which move inspired by the Making Drawings Move resource.

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Making Articulated Beasts

Develop the concept of making drawings which move with these articulated beasts.Making Articulated Beasts. Use in an animation project using Stop Motion Pro.

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A Cheerful Orchestra

The A Cheerful Orchestra resource is a wonderful exploration of music and visual arts, using one to inform understanding and exploration of the other. Plenty of opportunities for working on a variety of scale and in a variety of medium.

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Typography for Children

The Typography for Children resource introduces children to the concept of font design. Explore how font type can change the way words are presented, and how we can take inspiration fro many different sources to invent something new. Use the results in a design-led, branding project or in the project shared in Summer 1.

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3D Visual Maps

The 3D Visual Maps resource builds upon typography skills learnt in Spring 2, and enables children to create 3d maps based upon real or imagined landscapes. Combines drawing, design and making skills.

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Fruit Inspired Clay Tiles

Fruit Inspired Clay Tiles shares sessions in which creative response drawings of fruit develop into decorative clay tiles. Alternative to firing techniques shared.

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Drawing and Making Flowers

The Drawing and Making Flowers resource encourages observational drawing skills and then enables pupils to extend and develop their creative response into 3 dimensions using a variety of media.

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After School Clubs & MAT

The Polar Bears & Icebergs project is the archetypal AccessArt after school club – drawing, sculpture, collage, paint…

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