Overview

Year

Unit

Skills/ National curriculum

EYFS

Autumn

Autumn 1

Ourselves

Autumn 2

Creating autumn art with the use of natural materials.

- Explore different materials freely to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.

- Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.

- Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.

- Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.

EYFS

Spring

Spring 1

Winter environments

Spring 2

Junk modelling

- Explore colour and colour-mixing.

- Join different materials and explore different textures.

- Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear etc.

EYFS

Summer

Summer 1

Summer 2

- Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.

-Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.

-Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.

Year 1

Autumn

A study of Richard Long (printing and Andy Goldsworthy (collage)

- Create patterns - Develop impressed images - Relief printing

Awareness and discussion of patterns - repeating patterns - symmetry

Year 1 Spring

A study of sculpture, drawing and sketching.

Construct - Use materials to make known objects for a purpose - Carve - Pinch and roll coils and slabs using a modelling media. - Make simple joins

Name all the colours - mixing of colours - Find collections of colour - applying colour with a range of tools

Year 1 Summer

A study of drawing, sketching, Painting (brush strokes) and Landscapes.

Extend the variety of drawings tools - Explore different textures - Observe and draw landscapes - Observe patterns - observe anatomy (faces, limbs)

Weaving - collage - Sort according to specific qualities - how textiles create things

Year 2 Autumn

A Study of Printing & Watercolour seascapes

Create patterns - Develop impressed images - Relief printing

Name all the colours - mixing of colours - Find collections of colour - applying colour with a range of tools

Overlapping and overlaying to create effects

Print with a growing range of objects - Identify the different forms printing takes

Experiment by arranging, folding, repeating, overlapping, regular and irregular patterning - natural and manmade patterns - Discuss regular and irregular

Year 2 Spring

A study of portraits

- Experiment with tools and surfaces

- Draw a way of recording experiences and feelings

Awareness of natural and man-made forms - Expression of personal experiences and ideas - to shape and form from direct observation (malleable and rigid materials)

Year 2 Summer

A study of drawing buildings, sketching and sculptures

- Awareness of natural and man-made forms - Expression of personal experiences and ideas - to shape and form from direct observation (malleable and rigid materials) - decorative techniques - Replicate patterns and textures in a 3-D form - work and that of other sculptors

- Discuss use of shadows, use of light and dark - Sketch to make quick records

Year 3

Autumn

A study of painting, drawing and print.

Colour mixing - Make colour wheels

- Introduce different types of brushes - techniques - apply colour using dotting, scratching, splashing

Colour mixing through overlapping colour prints

Relief and impressed printing - recording textures/patterns - monoprinting

Year 3 Spring

A study of portraiture and landscapes

Experiment with the potential of various pencils - close observation - Draw both the positive and negative shapes - initial sketches as a preparation for painting - accurate drawings of people – particularly faces

Year 3 Summer

A study of sculpture and weaving (Romans)

Use smaller eyed needles and finer threads - weaving

Shape, form, model and construct ( malleable and rigid materials) - Plan and develop - understanding of different adhesives and methods of construction - aesthetics

Make patterns on a range of surfaces - symmetry

Year 4 Autumn

A study of drawing, designing, tapestry/ cross stitch and heraldry

- Colour to reflect mood

Use a wider variety of stitches - observation and design of textural art - experimenting with creating mood, feeling, movement- - compare different fabrics

Year 4 Spring

A study of Ancient Art and Ceramics

Scale and proportion - accurate drawings of whole people including proportion and placement - Work on a variety of scales

- Colour mixing and matching; tint, tone, shade

Observe colours

- suitable equipment for the task

Use sketchbook for recording textures/patterns - Interpret environmental and manmade patterns - modify and adapt print

Explore environmental and manmade patterns - tessellation

- Use stories, music, poems as stimuli

Year 4 Summer

A study of papier-mâché and the mask of Tutankhamun

Suitable equipment for the task

Plan and develop - Experience surface patterns / textures - Discuss own work and work of other sculptors - analyse and interpret natural and manmade forms of construction

Use sketchbook for recording textures/patterns - Interpret environmental and manmade patterns - modify and adapt print

Explore environmental and manmade patterns - tessellation

Year 5 Autumn

A study of William Morris and printing  

Hue, tint, tone, shades and mood - explore the use of texture in colour - colour for purposes

Select and use materials - embellish work - fabric making - artists using textiles

Combining prints - design prints - make connections - discuss and evaluate own work and that of others

Create own abstract pattern to reflect personal experiences and expression - create pattern for purposes

Year 5 Spring

A study of fresco and collage 

Produce increasingly accurate drawings of people

- Use stories, music, poems as stimuli

Year 5 Summer

A study of drawing, sketching, skyscrapers/ skylines and 3D structures.

Effect of light on objects and people from different directions - interpret the texture of a surface

Concept of perspective

Plan and develop ideas - Shape, form, model and join - observation or imagination - properties of media - Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other sculptors

Concept of perspective

Year 6 Autumn

A Study of African sculpture, textiles and design.

Hue, tint, tone, shades and mood - explore the use of texture in colour

Colour for purposes - colour to express feelings

Develops experience in embellishing

Plan and develop ideas - Shape, form, model and join - observation or imagination - properties of media - Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other sculptors

Create pattern for purposes

Work collaboratively on a larger scale

Create own abstract pattern to reflect personal experiences and expression

Year 6 Spring

A study of Pop Art

Produce increasingly accurate drawings of people

Applies knowledge of different techniques to express feelings

Hue, tint, tone, shades and mood - explore the use of texture in colour - colour for purposes - colour to express feelings

Builds up drawings and images of whole or parts of items using various techniques

Screen printing - Explore printing techniques used by various artists

Year 6 Summer

A study of composition, photography and Still Life

Effect of light on objects and people from different directions - interpret the texture of a surface