Units that other teachers are welcome to borrow.
Each project is a working unit — objectives, materials, process, and what tends to surprise us.
Grade 1 · Grade 2 · Grade 3
2024–2025
Expressive Self-Portraits
Young artists explored who they are on a given day, using colour and gesture rather than likeness.
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Grade 4 · Grade 5 · Grade 6
2024–2025
Colour and Emotion
A four-week unit using colour theory as a language for feelings.
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Grade 3 · Grade 4 · Grade 5
2023–2024
Recycled-Material Sculptures
A month-long sculpture unit built from materials students gather from home and neighbourhood.
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Grade 3 · Grade 4 · Grade 5
2024–2025
Nature Printmaking
An introduction to relief printing and cyanotype using materials foraged from the school garden and local parks.
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Grade 5 · Grade 6 · Secondary
2024–2025
Visual Storytelling
A term-long project inviting older students to make an extended drawn or painted narrative — a memory, an imagined place, a small piece of family history.
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Grade 4 · Grade 5 · Grade 6
2024–2025
Collaborative Mural
A single mural made by many hands.
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