: Link Tasks 1 – 3
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Link Task 1 : Pencil Drawing
Approach:   Independent 
Level:  Year 4 and year 8
Focus:    By careful observation, students can use drawing processes to describe the main features and form of a displayed object. 
Resources:Per student: displayed object, B4 cartridge paper, cardboard base, (no erasers).
Time:15 minutes allowed for making the drawing.
Questions/instructions:
Each student observed the displayed object from the same angle. They were instructed to make their drawing “as real as you can - just as you see it”.

Mean Score
y4 y8

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Key attributes:
(0 low – 3 high)		    
main features recorded:
main parts/features observed and recorded; different parts appropriately shaped and in reasonable proportions
 0.91 1.52
dimensional quality:
shading/perspective
 0.47 1.24
detail:
fine detail of features observed and included; appropriate tonal marking, textures, patterns and lines
 0.77 1.39
expressiveness:
life-like quality; confident treatment; enrichment through subtle individual interpretation
 0.70 1.35
Global rating: (0 low – 5 high)
1.10 2.11
 
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Link Task 2 : Pastel Drawing
Approach:   Independent 
Level:  Year 4 and year 8
Focus:    Students can produce an expressive coloureddrawing based on an imaginative idea, usingskills of composition and media effects   
Resources:Video stimulus. Per student: 1 set of 12 oil pastels, 1 B3 grey sugar paper, 1 cardboard base.
Time:20 minutes allowed for making the drawing.
Questions/instructions:
After listening to a stimulus poem, students were asked to make a picture to depict the character in the poem. They were instructed to try to use the pastels in ways that make colours and shapes bright, bold and colourful.
  Mean Score
y4 y8

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Key attributes:
(0 low – 3 high)		    
expressiveness:
image appropriate to task; strength, vitality and colour; movement, dynamism, imagination, avoidance of cliché
 0.91 1.43
compostion:
use of pictorial space; appropriate context;
arrangement of images; balance
 0.84 1.36
detail:
finer features included
 0.67 1.23
use of media:
technical control of pastel media to achieve a range of mark making
 0.82 1.43
Global rating:
(0 low – 5 high)
1.02 1.74
 
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Link Task 3 : Clay Sculpture
Approach:   Independent 
Level:  Year 4 and year 8
Focus: Students can use and control the medium of clay to create a three-dimensional form.
Resources: Per student: 1 block of clay, 1 pointed dowel stick,1 iceblock stick, 1 wooden structure, 1 A4 white drawing paper, 1 4B pencil, 1 dampened sponge(no water), 1 cue card, 1 plastic desk cover.
Time:40 minutes for planning and making the object.
Questions/instructions:
Students were asked to make an object from clay and to position it on the wooden structure. The opportunity was given for planning the object by making a pencil sketch prior to modelling.
  Mean Score
y4 y8

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Key attributes:
(0 low – 3 high)		    
expressiveness:
appearance and effect of the image and its persona
 1.10 1.69
composition:
use of available clay; the ‘fit’ of object with structure;
3-dimensional qualities
 1.07 1.69
detail:
appropriate features and embellishments
 0.94 1.39
structural skills:
moulding and joining; stability
 0.92 1.53
Global rating:
(0 low – 5 high)
1.45 2.26
 
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