Year Four

Visual Art is playful and social. It adds value and meaning through open exploration, giving form to sensory perceptions. Engaging in Art involves taking risks and responding to creative impulses.

Blue Flower

Students read “Blue Flower”, illustrated by Gabriel Evans and written by Sonya Hartnett, another shortlisted Book Week book, which celebrates the amazingness of being different and explores themes of belonging, empathy and acceptance. From this they created expressive abstract drawings representing freedom and individual strengths.

Theo Jansen's spectacular artistic designs that move!

Students looked at artist Theo Jansen's amazing designs, which move and are absolutely incredible. They then created an environmentally friendly transport of the future, thinking about a creature (for example, a butterfly) based on his designs. Written notes accompany each drawing to describe their ideas for environmentally friendly transport. The students then uploaded their images online and were able to edit them.

Stop Motion, Claymation movie making!

Nick Park's brilliant Claymation series, Wallace & Gromit, chronicles the adventures of an eccentric, cheese-loving inventor and his sharp-witted canine companion. The Wallace and Gromit films are shot using the stop motion animation technique. After detailed storyboarding, set and plasticine model construction, the films are shot one frame at a time, moving the models of the characters slightly to give the impression of movement in the final film. Students explored meaning and interpretation, elements and forms, and social and cultural contexts of animated movies. They made their own Claymation responding to well known animations.