Art: Rose and Castle Canal Art

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Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
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Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Key Use the symbols below to quick reference
areas of the unit. Activity outline Resources
Differentiation Helpers/ Learning
Support Curriculum and Objectives
Resources Quick links to lesson
resources.
Unit Overview Brightly coloured boats painted in
the traditional roses and castle motifs are
unique to the canal system. This art form
developed as an escape from the cramped living
conditions in the back cabin of a narrow boat.
The roses represented the gardens and the castles
the houses that many of the boat families could
only dream of. Students will explore traditional
canal art and its relevance to boat families.
They will make an intricate rose design plate
imitating real canal ware and using a cut and
stick method instead of brushes and paints.
Curriculum and Objectives The unit is all
about investigating art craft and design. It
considers different styles of canal art and its
historical context. Through the activities pupils
are encouraged to think creatively as well as
analyse and work with colours choosing
appropriate tones for shading and highlighting.
Students also look at the roles and purposes of
artists craftspeople and designers working in
different times and cultures.

• Objectives
• Discover why rose and castle designs existed
• Analyse the colours and patterns used in rose
  designs from real canal ware
• Develop manual dexterity and use of scissors

• Outcomes
• Listen to an explanation of Rose and castle art
  history
• Choose appropriate colours for making roses
• Design a rose plate layout
• Make a rose plate using coloured paper.

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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 1 - Before Your Trip.

• Starters
• Darker or Lighter (10 mins)
• A short PowerPoint shows different shades of the
  same colour. At the end of the PowerPoint there
  is a short game where students choose if the
  colour is darker or lighter
• Higher ability groups or older students can
  complete this quickly and then try mixing their
  own colours and adding black or white to make
  them lighter and darker.
• Helpers/LSAs should encourage students to be
  looking at the board so they don miss the colour
  change during the quiz
• Resource PowerPoint presentation Lighter or
  Darker

• Main Activities
• Looking at Rose and Castle designs (20min)
• A worksheet of canal ware that asks students to
  pick out and use shading to match the colours in
  each design.
• Resource worksheet rose and castle colours
  pencils or other colours that can be mixed to
  copy a colour
• This can be made easier by providing a choice
  of premixed colours or even giving a variety of
  squares to be stuck in of similar different and
  matching colours
• Make a rose and castle Watercan
• Use the worksheet to cut and stick and colour a
  water jug in rose and castle style.
• Helpers/LSAs will need to help students at the
  end with the assembly of tha can
• Resources worksheet from http//www.wow4water.n
  et/kids/activities (hook the duck under a
  shower!) make your own water can.
• For a shorter quicker activity there are a
  couple of other activities from this website on
  this theme. (hook either the black duck with
  flowers on it or the duck that looks like a
  castle)

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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 1 - Before Your Trip.

Plenaries Rose and Castle Judging Competition (20
mins) Students are given a post it note with a
first prize on it. Each person must choose a
favourite and say why then award the prize.
Encourage students to give their prize for good
colouring skills (staying inside the lines)
choosing good rose and castle colours and well
stuck together / completed cans. Resource
post it notes and pens

• Homeworks
• Roses Castles on the web
• Students must find examples of Roses and Castle
  designs on the web and put together a printed
  page of examples to bring to the floating
  classroom.
• or
• Castle Colouring
• Using the wow4water website in the main
  activities section above colour in the picture
  of a castle design (the castle shaped duck from
  the hook a duck game).

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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 2 - During Your Trip.

Starters Safety and Rules (5 Mins) Students
are given a brief list of safety rules and play a
couple of simple games to practice being quiet
and sitting down game for emergencies. Spot the
Art (10 Mins) Students go outside and try to
spot any rose and castle designs on boats outside
the floating classroom. Resource -
PowerPointUnit 11 Victorian Britain

• Main Activities
• Rose and Castle Introductions (5 Mins)
• Students listen to a short talk about rose and
  castle art history and also a briefing of the
  rose plate they will make
• Resources - Clipboards pencils and paper
• Rose plate part 1 ( 20 mins)
• Design a rose plate in outline using pencil and a
  circle on paper to get an idea of the overall
  design. The rose colours etc should be chosen now
  too. One of them has to be orange.
• Rose plate part 2
• Make a rose using coloured card and the
  worksheet shown. The rose should be as close a
  replica of the one on the worksheet as possible
  and must be orange
• Rose plate part 3
• Each pair now chooses one of the other colours
  and makes their own rose in the colour already
  chosen.
• Break

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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 2 - During Your Trip.

Main activities
Plenaries Tidy up (5mins) Students are assigned
a job for clearing up and all jobs must be
completed before anyone gets a last chance to go
outside.
Homeworks Coloured Card (20 mins) Students
find coloured card to finish their plates. This
can be sourced from either shops scraps they
have at home or cereal packets magazines and
other unwanted printed material.
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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 3 - After Your Trip.

Starters Recapping roses and castles Students
have an opportunity to write down everything that
they learned or that happened on their trip to
the floating classroom in as much detail as
possible. Some students then get to read theirs
out to refresh everyones memory Less able
students could answer a series of questions with
sentence answers
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History Local History
Art Rose and Castle Canal Art
Lesson 3 - After Your Trip.

Main activities Rose and Castle Plates
Finishing up The plates are completed using the
card from home or some provided by school Rose
and Castle plates display board. Every student
writes one sentence from their starter in neat
big letters about the floating classroom and puts
it with their finished plate. As students
complete their plates and sentences they bring
them to the teacher to assemble them on a large
classroom display board along with any photos
showing your time on the the floating classroom.
Plenaries Inevitably with an activity such as
this some students will finish ahead of others by
a considerable margin. It is therefore likely you
will need several plenary activities to hand
depending on how much the students got done in
the floating classroom session. A range of
simple fun activities are available on
thewow4water website (see above for link). These
range from word searches to colouring and
origami. Choose several to have ready for your
class.
Homeworks Drawing and Caption (20 mins)
Students choose one of the activities they have
done on the boat randomly by being given a number
corresponding to an activity (see below).
Students must draw a picture of themselves doing
the activity on the boat and write a caption
explaining what they learned doing the
activity. 1. Spotting Old and New Things 2.
Making Victorian Childrens Toys 3. Time
Travelling