Year 2 – drawing

Drawing – The Great Fire of London

This half term the children in year 2 have been making cross curricular links with history and have used drawing to help them learn about the past.

Year 2 researched the Great Fire of London using information books and stories. They shared pictures of the Great Fire of London that were completed in 1666. They talked about what they could see in the paintings and drawings and what they noticed. 

The children noticed the houses of that time were built differently from our houses today. They looked at the buildings in London present day and made comparisons between the old houses of 1666 and the houses and buildings today.

The children collected their ideas and facts through drawing and making sketchbook studies. They were encouraged to use different drawing materials and experiment with their use of line to create different effects.

The children learnt about how the houses were built closely together and the bottom floor of the house was narrow but got wider as the houses were built upwards. They used their observational skills to look closely at the wooden beams, small windows and the thatch rooftops.

Next, the children created large drawings which brought together their drawings of houses and they practised in their sketchbooks making flames of different sizes and shapes using different drawing materials. These explorations of colour and texture were then applied to the large drawings. 

What The Student Says

" I loved working on the big drawings. It was lots of fun making big marks." " I liked learning about the fire and how it spread so quickly." "Did you know Samuel Pepys wrote a diary and buried his cheese in the garden?" " I liked using the side of my pastel and point to make different marks in my drawings." "I loved using charcoal and chalk to draw my house. It was easy to smudge." "I think our big drawings are amazing!"

What skills were developed?

  • researched facts about The Great Fire of London

  • used their observational skills to look at drawings and paintings from that time in history

  • used a variety of  drawing materials to explore making different marks and pressures

  • worked on a big scale drawing

  • used their sketchbook studies to inform their next work

  •  used discussion to comment on what they noticed in their own work and that of other artists

  • considered composition and the placement of their drawings

What the Teacher says

The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about The Great Fire of London through drawing in their art lessons. They were brilliant at finding information from books and the use of the internet. This was then transferred into their sketchbooks using drawing and key words. Their drawings of the houses and the fire explored their use of line, pattern and colour and allowed the children to develop their observational skills and fine motor skills. Drawing on a bigger scale allowed the children the opportunity to talk about where their drawings could be placed and why. They were encouraged to use a variety of drawing materials including, graphite, charcoal, chalk, oil pastels and chalk pastels.

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