Ripple Infants School

Integrating ICT in Art within the Primary Classroom

Showing how a sequence of Art lessons can be modified to enable ICT-based consolidation activities to take place alongside more traditional activities.

A Test-Bed Action Research Project prepared by Mrs S. Gordon

Stage 1 – Creating Patterns in the Style of Andy Goldsworthy

It’s a great way to do art because

you can make your work

whatever size you want or even work on the floor,

but you can’t keep it like that

because you have to tidy it all

away.

Stage 1 –Patterns in the Style of Andy Goldsworthy

Children have taken these photos of their own work.

Stage 2 – Creating a digital template

It’s easy to take a photo, but you need someone to

put your picture from the camera

into the computer.

Stage 2 – Creating a digital template

Children have taken photos of their objects, then selected a portion to work with in Colour Magic.

Stage 3 - Manipulating the selected imageto create a repeated pattern

using the ‘symmetry tool’

It’s easy to find our own photos. The ‘steps sheet’

helped us, but after a while we didn’t need to use them

because we knew what we wanted to tell the computer to

do.”

We have to think about where we want the

shapes to go so that it makes a symmetrical

pattern.

Stage 3 - Manipulating the selected image to create a repeated pattern, using the ‘symmetry tool’

Children made calendars from the prints of their work.

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image

Stage 4 – Using the ‘Colour Effects’ tool to modify a selected image

Children’s work can also be seen at

Barking Town Hall Art Exhibition.