About the Dazzle Ship Resources
This free digital resource focuses on three major public art commissions in Liverpool and London by artists Sir Peter Blake, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Tobias Rehberger. It has been designed for teachers and pupils with activities, teacher’s notes and lesson plans related to subjects across the curriculum as well as exciting interactive games for all the family to enjoy.
KS2–Create your own advertisement campaign
Persuasive Writing
Look at advertisements found in magazines and examples of Pop Art.
- What makes these advertisements interesting?
- How are the Pop Art images eye-catching?
- How will you get people to come on the Dazzle Ferry?
- Create an advertising campaign inspired by Pop Art for the Dazzle Ferry!
Persuasive writing techniques that you can use in your advertising campaign
A FOREST
- Alliteration – I’m really ready to razzle dazzle
- Facts – Peter Blake is an artist
- Opinion – ‘Everybody Razzle Dazzle’ is the best ferry in the world!
- Rhetorical question – Surely you would like to visit the amazing Dazzle Ferry?
- Emotive language – I absolutely adore the Dazzle Ferry.
- Statistics – Mersey Ferries were built to carry 1,200 passengers
- The power of three – ‘Everybody Razzle Dazzle’ is the most exciting, wonderful, unbelievable ferry.
Create leaflets and posters with your own slogans and designs persuading people to visit the Dazzle Ferry. Don’t forget to use A FOREST to persuade people to visit the ferry.
Materials List
- Pencil
- Colouring pencils, crayons or felt tips
- Paper
- Adverts from magazines
- Examples of Pop Art from books or the internet
Extract from curriculum
Pupils should be taught to:
Spoken Language
- listen and respond appropriately to adults and their peers
- ask relevant questions to extend their understanding and knowledge
- articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions
- give well-structured descriptions, explanations and narratives for different purposes,
- including for expressing feelings
- maintain attention and participate actively in collaborative conversations, staying on
- topic and initiating and responding to comments
- use spoken language to develop understanding through speculating, hypothesising,
- imagining and exploring ideas
Writing
Pupils should be taught to:
Plan their writing by:
- discussing writing similar to that which they are planning to write in order to
- understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar
- discussing and recording ideas
- draft and write by:
- composing and rehearsing sentences orally (including dialogue), progressively building a varied and rich vocabulary and an increasing range of sentence structures
- organising paragraphs around a theme
in narratives, creating settings, characters and plot
Teachers Notes:
These activities could be used in conjunction with a project around World War One.
The Persuasive Writing activity could also link to the Dazzle Art and History projects.