SKIES OF IRELAND

Cheeverstown School

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This UOL aims to work with the students imagination and to allow for experimentation with a variety of different materials. Lying down on the grass and looking up at the sky from a ‘worm’s eye’ point of view, will provide the scenario for the different tasks over the course of the UOL. The images provided will inform the students of the various art elements such as colour, texture and movement to be incorporated. 

Over the course of the UOL the students will explore two-dimensional work that can be displayed on a panel, representing a tonal scale of the sky. 

The three-dimensional work that will be hung as a mobile installation depicting sculpture visual recordings of the sky.
 

Theme: Skies of Ireland 

 

Scenario: Lying down on the grass looking up a 'worm's eye' view of the sky and visually recording what they see and hear. 

 

Color Thread: Warm and Cool

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Learning Outcomes

 - Develop sensitivity to the visual, spatial and tactile world, and to provide for aesthetic experience 
- Express ideas, feelings and experiences in visual and tactile forms 
- Enable the child to have enjoyable and purposeful experiences of different art media 
- Have opportunities to explore, experiment, imagine, design, invent and communicate with different art materials 
- Promote the child’s understanding of and personal response to the creative processes involved in making two and three-dimensional art.
- Develop the skills and techniques necessary for expression, inventiveness and individuality 
-Enable the child to experience the excitement and fulfilment of creativity and the achievement of potential through art activities .
-Foster sensitivity towards and enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts 
-Provide opportunities for the child to explore how the work of artists and craftspeople might relate to his/her own work.