The learners will investigate the many ways that the Clyde has been
portrayed in paintings and drawings over the last 150 years. This
will be by classroom research and visits to galleries and
museums. Specialists can be invited into the class to meet
the pupils and discuss their skills. The pupils will visit the
River Clyde to take make sketches and take photos. Learners can
investigate how various techniques can be used to enhance an image.
These will then be used to help the pupils create their own images
of the Clyde in 2008. The learners will plan and prepare an art
exhibition for parents and invited guests to showcase the research
and artwork created during the project.
Broad Outcomes of learning
• Subject knowledge gained and enhanced - experience in and
investigation of a variety of painting and drawing
techniques
• Enterprising skills improved by encouraging creativity,
increasing motivation and participation in learning about local
area, taking responsibility and making decisions about content,
raising self awareness and sense of achievement
• Develop employability skills: communication, planning,
organisation, researching, presenting, analysing, contributing,
reporting
• Confidence of working independently from teacher-led lessons
demonstrated by creativity in producing final artwork
• Learners take responsibility for their learning through making
decisions about choice of art medium, choice of image, planning and
organising the exhibition,
• Learners have developed enterprising skills identified as 4
capacities of CfE
Relevance to curriculum
• Supports 5-14 Expressive Arts
• Relevance to Enterprise in Education criteria
• Relevance to a Curriculum for Excellence capacities