How a visit to Killhope can inspire

UNIT 4C: JOURNEYS
Using Killhope: Why not use a walk around the woodland as the journey, and ask the children to
represent it. There is so much for them to see – red squirrels at the squirrel hide, birds at the bird
feeder, rabbits, the reservoir, streams, different types of trees and plants, a modern art sculpture,
our ‘Go Wild with Tiles’ exhibition – children will have so much to inspire them.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES LEARNING OUTCOMES
Exploring and developing ideas (1)
• To question and make
thoughtful observations
about starting points for
their work.
• To collect visual and
other information to help
them develop their
ideas.
• To question and make
thoughtful observations
about the stimulus for
their work.
• To investigate and
combine visual and
tactile qualities of
materials and processes
and to match these
qualities to their ideas
about a journey.
• Explore a range of maps (old
and new), aerial photographs,
and paintings of Killhope at
different periods and times of
year. Discuss the use of lines,
shapes and patterns in the
material and how they have been
used to indicate objects and
features. Point out that their use
can be decorative as well as
functional, for example the aerial
photographs in our display.
Exploring and developing ideas (2)
• Ask the children to make visual
notes in their sketchbook of
some of the patterns in the
stimulus material that they could
use to represent their own
journeys.
• Ask the children to develop their
own signs and symbols using
Killhope as inspiration.
Exploring and developing ideas (3)
• Ask the children to think about a
journey, and talk to them about
how they can represent it. Why
not use a walk around the
woodland as the journey, and
take inspiration from nature
Investigating and making
• Help the children to think about
how they will compose their
picture of the journey around the
woodland, and to choose the
materials and processes that will
best represent it.
• Identify different ways of
representing objects and
features related to maps
and journeys.
• Explore how lines can be
used to create patterns.
• Design their own signs and
symbols to represent
objects, events or people.
• Describe and explain the
signs and symbols they
make.
• Represent in diagrammatic
form the journey around
the woodland.
• Combine different
techniques in their work.
• Select materials and
processes and combine
and organise them in their
work.
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