The Arts · Year 6

Lesson 1

Use composition rules and perspective to add depth and balance to artworks.

⏱ 19 min · 12 questions

Lesson 2

Study how artists make portraits and learn about famous portrait painters.

⏱ 18 min · 9 questions

Lesson 3

Create a short melody and write it down so others can play it.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 4

Learn camera shot types and how advertisements use them to persuade.

⏱ 19 min · 9 questions

Lesson 5

Use the colour wheel, complementary colours, and tints and shades.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 6

Explore the four families of orchestral instruments and how they sound.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 7

Use dramatic tension and high or low status to make scenes gripping.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 8

Explore how relief prints are made and why prints come in editions.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 9

Use clear, exaggerated mime to tell a whole story with no speech.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Lesson 10

Plan a film using storyboard frames that note shots and transitions.

⏱ 18 min · 8 questions

Lesson 11

Combine texture, form and value to make drawings look real.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 12

Learn how three or more notes stacked together make a chord.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 13

Build a believable scene on the spot using offers and focus.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 14

Create and develop a movement motif into a short dance.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 15

Use colour, shape and line to show ideas and feelings instead of real objects.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 16

Discover how accenting the off-beats gives music a surprising, funky feel.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 17

Work as a group to create an original short play from your own ideas.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 18

Learn how editors cut and join clips to control a film's meaning and pace.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 19

Use a stencil to print the same bold design many times.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 20

Hear how one tune is changed and decorated to make new versions.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 21

Combine moves from two dance styles to create a fusion sequence.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 22

Spot the clues that tell us if a film is horror, comedy or adventure.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 23

Make flat drawings look deep using a single vanishing point.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 24

Use opposite movement qualities to make a dance gripping.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 25

Hear how layers of sound make music feel thick or thin.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 26

Look at how media represents people and spot stereotypes.

⏱ 18 min · 6 questions

Lesson 27

Explore how positive and negative shapes can flip what we see.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 28

Layer repeating patterns to build texture in a piece of music.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 29

Improvise a scene where one character's status rises while another's falls.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 30

Use sharp versus smooth and sudden versus sustained to create contrast.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 31

Use tone and a single light source to make objects look solid.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Lesson 32

Explore how tempo, dynamics and instruments create mood in film music.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Lesson 33

Use timing, exaggeration and surprise to make a scene funny.

⏱ 14 min · 7 questions

Lesson 34

Create a short motif, then develop it by changing size, speed and level.

⏱ 15 min · 7 questions

Lesson 35

Compare symmetrical and asymmetrical balance and how each affects an artwork.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 36

Understand how melodies are built from phrases that rise, fall and breathe like sentences.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 37

Compare realistic naturalistic acting with bigger, stylised performance styles.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 38

Use the rule of thirds to frame shots that look balanced and draw the viewer's eye.

⏱ 18 min · 7 questions

Lesson 39

Plan paintings using complementary and analogous colour schemes.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 40

Learn how sound effects (Foley) are made and added to films.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 41

Use proportion and scale to make drawings look right or dramatically wrong on purpose.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 42

Explore artworks that fill whole spaces and plan an installation of your own.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 43

Learn the repeating chord pattern of the blues and how musicians improvise over it.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 44

Learn the beat patterns conductors trace in the air and how they shape a performance.

⏱ 15 min · 6 questions

Lesson 45

Discover how set, costume, lighting and sound design bring a play to life.

⏱ 17 min · 6 questions

Lesson 46

Build the focus, projection and spacing skills that make a dance performance shine.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions

Lesson 47

Use squash and stretch, anticipation and timing to make animated movement believable.

⏱ 17 min · 7 questions

Lesson 48

Investigate how headlines, angles, facts and quotes are chosen to construct a news story.

⏱ 16 min · 6 questions