By Mrs Martin (Head of Year 5)

As a natural progression from last week’s focus on colour mixing and how artists use mood and palette to represent place, our Year 5 artists have now turned their attention to another key technique: perspective drawing.

Within our transdisciplinary Unit of Inquiry Where We Are in Place and Time, the girls have been exploring how places are represented, not just through colour and atmosphere, but also through proportion, line, and depth.

In their introduction to one-point perspective, the girls discovered how a simple vanishing point and horizon line can transform a flat surface into a scene that stretches into the distance. From winding roads and railway tracks to imagined pathways disappearing towards the horizon, their drawings demonstrated impressive control over scale and structure.

This activity not only built technical skill but also reinforced our broader line of inquiry: An exploration of how places are represented. By experimenting with perspective, the girls reflected on how artists, like geographers and explorers, use different tools to represent the world in ways that shape our understanding of space and place.

With each new skill, the girls are expanding their artistic toolkit and preparing to apply these techniques to their own landscape artworks later in the unit, combining the precision of geography with the expressive power of art.