Year 5 have been experimenting with different media in their art lesson: charcoal, pencil/graphite, pen, pastel, stick and ink.

This term, they will be focusing on developing their drawing skills. Our first step has been to experiment with different media, in as many different ways as we could. We then used our experiences with the different media to decide which would be best suited to different artistic tasks, and why. For example, the children decided they would use biro or graphite for fine-line drawing with lots of detail whereas pastels and charcoal would be better suited to larger, bolder art work.