Art & Design

Our Art & Design Curriculum – A Journey of Creativity

AUTUMN 1

OUTCOME: Make a large fabric wall hanging, inspired by Lost & Found.

KNOWLEDGE

• Have some knowledge about the work of Oliver Jeffers.
• Name and identify textures.

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Name, match and draw lines/marks from observations.
• Observe and draw shapes from observations.

Painting:

• Use a variety of tools and techniques including different brush sizes and types.
• Mix and match colours to artefacts and objects.
• Work on different scales.

Mixed Media:

• Create images from a variety of media e.g. photocopied material, fabric, crepe paper, magazines.
• Arrange and glue materials to different backgrounds.
• Fold, crumple, tear and overlap papers.
• Work on different scales.
• Experiment with paste resist (batik)

VOCABULARY

thick      thin      shade      fabric       shape      texture      narrow        pattern

Lost & Found

THE NORTH & SOUTH POLE

SPRING 2

OUTCOME: Using a range of materials to create wrapping paper for a present (wrapping paper will be used at the end of summer 2 to wrap a present for Goldilocks).

Front cover used as inspiration - cover is wrapped like a parcel.

KNOWLEDGE

• Know about the printing and repeated pattern
• Learn about the artist Orla Kiely 
• Understand colour identification
• Know the features of a pattern

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Draw shapes in between objects.
• Investigate tone by drawing light/dark shapes.

Painting:

• Identify primary and secondary colours by name.
• Print with a range of hard and soft materials e.g. corks, pen barrels, sponge.
• Make simple marks on rollers and printing palettes.
• Roll printing ink over found objects to create patterns e.g. plastic mesh, stencils.
• Build repeating patterns and recognise patterns in the environment.

VOCABULARY

shape     primary      secondary       repeated      tone     bright        shade

Meerkat Mail

BELONGING

SUMMER 1

OUTCOME: Create a layered 3D flower using a range of textured materials and images.

KNOWLEDGE

• Have an understanding of a range of materials.
• Know the links between their own work and a different artist (Vincent Van Gogh).

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Investigate textures by describing, naming, rubbing, copying.

Painting:

• Create textured paint by adding sand, plaster.

Mixed Media:

• Explore sculpture with a range of malleable media.
• Manipulate malleable materials for a purpose.
• Collect, sort, name and match colours appropriate for an image.

VOCABULARY

cut      stick      bend      fabric    colour     attach     model       assemble

The Tiny Seed

PLANTS

AUTUMN 2

OUTCOME: Create light and dark backgrounds with sketches of feathers and owls to mount on top.

KNOWLEDGE

• Have an understanding of and ability to use different pencil techniques.
• Use an increasing range of marks, lines, light and dark shades.
• Learn about Paul Howard – illustrator

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Invent new lines using pencils.
• Draw on different surfaces with a range of media.
• Invent new shapes.
• Investigate tone and texture by drawing light/dark lines, light/dark patterns.

Mixed Media:

• Create and arrange shapes appropriately.
• Create, select and use textured paper for an image.

VOCABULARY

broad     narrow      fine    shade     tone     charcoal       coloured         texture

The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark

NIGHT TIME

SPRING 2

OUTCOME: Recreate the scene of evacuation from the book. Each child to draw and paint a person from the scene. This will then build up into a whole class piece of art recreating that page from the text.

KNOWLEDGE

• Know the primary and secondary colours in a range of tones.
• Know the range of vocabulary to describe the colour and consistency of paint.
• Express and represent ideas and feelings through painting. (Lowry) 

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Draw from observation the image of a person.
• Investigate tone by drawing.

Painting:

• Mix primary shades and tones.
• Mix secondary colours.
• Experiment with tools and techniques e.g. layering, mixing media, scrapping through.

VOCABULARY

shade     tone      colour  washing     painting      mixing     warm     cold

My Name is not Refugee

Refugees- leaving home

SUMMER 2

OUTCOME: To build a 3D sculpture of a soldier made from a range of materials.  

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand that visual ideas and images can be represented in media.
• Know that different materials can be assembled to create images.

• Take inspiration from William Britain

SKILLS

Mixed Media:

• Explore sculpture with a range of malleable media.
• Manipulate malleable materials for a purpose, e.g. pot, tile.
• Understand the safety and basic care of materials and tools.
• Use simple 2-D shapes to create a 3-D form.
• Change the surface of a malleable material.

VOCABULARY

shapes      mixed media     scissors      build     3D      combined

Major Glad, Major Dizzy

MUSEUMS

SPRING 1

OUTCOME: Produce cave art that can be used on a display, which can then also be transferred to stone.

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand how to record their ideas, observations and imaginative drawings.
• Understand that drawing has different purposes in different cultures.

SKILLS 

Drawing:

• Make marks and lines with a wide range of drawing implements e.g. charcoal, pencil, crayon, chalk pastels, pens.
• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements to draw different forms and shapes. 
• Apply a simple use of pattern in a drawing.

Painting:

• Experiment with different effects and textures including blocking in colour, washes and thickened paint creating textural effects. 
• Mix colours and know which primary colours make secondary colours.

Mixed Media:

• Create printing blocks using a relief or impressed method.
• Create repeating patterns.

VOCABULARY

symbol       practical     improve     abstract      natural      intense

Stone Age Boy

SETTLERS

SPRING 2

OUTCOME: Make an image to represent their own identity in the style of Pop Art.

KNOWLEDGE

• Learn how to make thoughtful observations and starting points to select ideas to use in their work.
• Draw inspiration from an artist (Andy Warhol).

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements to create lines and marks.

Painting:

• Create different effects and textures with paint according to what they need for the task.
• Print with two colour overlays.

Mixed Media:

• Create shapes by making selections to cut, duplicate and repeat. 

VOCABULARY

identify      character     change    improve      colour  descriptors     

The Silence Seeker

WELCOMING NEWCOMERS

SUMMER 2

OUTCOME: To build a 3D Egyptian sculpture. (For example: pyramid)

KNOWLEDGE

• Develop an understanding and control of modelling using clay and card.
• Know there is a difference between 2D and 3D art.
• Understand that sculpture techniques translate to architectural details. 

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Investigate objects having a third dimension.

Mixed Media:

• Plan, design and make models from observations.
• Construct a simple base for extending and modelling other shapes.
• Use papier mache to create a simple 3D object.

VOCABULARY

sculpture   two-dimensional    three-dimensional   form     structure

Zeraffa Giraffe

ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

AUTUMN 1

OUTCOME: To create a large scaled image of animals in captivity.

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand how scale and proportion work in observational drawings.
• Know that drawing can be used as a starting point for other processes.
• Know that drawing is a two-dimensional representation of a three-dimensional world.
• Use the artist Anthony Browne as inspiration.

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements to achieve variations in tone.
• Apply tone in a drawing in a simple way.
• Create textures with a wide range of drawing implements.
• Use a grid to enlarge an image. 

Painting:

• Work on a range of scales e.g. using a thin brush on a small picture.
• Use more specific colour language. 
• Mix and use tints and shades. 

VOCABULARY

distance      position     portrait        representational     scenery    tint  

Gorilla

ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY

SPRING 1

OUTCOME: To create a Roman helmet using papier mache.

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand control model when using papier mache.
• Understand the need to choose the correct materials.

SKILLS

Mixed Media:

• Plan, design and make models from observation or imagination.
• Construct a simple base for extending and modelling other shapes.
• Use papier mache to create simple 3D objects.

VOCABULARY

daub     batik     motif      geometric        shape      perspective     

Escape from Pompeii

INVADERS

SUMMER 2

OUTCOME: To create a whole class collage of a rainforest using images from “Where the Forest Meets the Sea” text.

KNOWLEDGE

• Explore and work from images from the natural world to produce a textured piece.
• Know how to make an image look real using observational drawings as a starting point.

SKILLS

Painting:

• Work on a range of scales e.g. thin brush on small picture.

Mixed Media:

• Experiment with a range of collage techniques such as tearing, overlapping and layering to create images and represent textures.
• Use collage as a means of collecting ideas and information and building a visual vocabulary.
• Develop skills in stitching, cutting and joining.

VOCABULARY

styles     shape     texture    image    overlap      inspiration

Where the Forest Meets the Sea

RAINFORESTS

AUTUMN 1

OUTCOME: Create an image from the key text using self-portraits to show expression.

KNOWLEDGE

• Develop a basic understanding of perspective– objects that are closer, appear larger and more detail can be seen.
• Know that the relationship between shape, scale and position is important.
• Understanding there is a difference between a stylised and accurate drawing.

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Experiment with media (pencil, charcoal, chalks, soft pastels & oil pastels) to make different marks, lines, patterns, textures and shapes.
• Work from a variety of sources including observation, photographs and digital images.
• Begin to develop an awareness of composition, scale and proportion in their paintings e.g. foreground, middle ground and background. (Teach children how to sketch accurate portraits using names of facial proportion.)
• Show an awareness of how paintings are created i.e. composition. (Teach children to use different shading techniques and materials to create light and dark areas.)

VOCABULARY

perspective    subject    portrait     caricature     expression       

Queen of the Falls

DAREDEVILS

SPRING 1

OUTCOME: Create their own Greek pottery inspired by Greek artefacts.

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand how construction skills can be extended through experimentation.
• Understand the roles of artists working in different times and cultures.

SKILLS

Drawing:

• Use dry media to make different marks, lines, patterns and shapes within a drawing.
• Use different techniques for different purposes i.e. shading, hatching within their own work.

Painting:

• Develop a painting from a drawing.

Mixed Media:

• Shape, form, model and construct from observation or imagination.
• Develop skills in using clay.
• Produce intricate patterns and textures in a malleable media.

VOCABULARY

artefact      pliable    flexible     construct     prototype     illustration

Arthur and the Golden Rope

ANCIENT GREECE

SUMMER 1

OUTCOME: Space artwork inspired by Peter Thorpe.

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand that certain colours and textures complement each other.
• Have an increased awareness of colour, pattern, shape and texture.
• Artist: Peter Thorpe

SKILLS

Collect ideas for work.

Painting:

• Carry out preliminary studies, trying out different media and materials and mixing appropriate colours.

Mixed Media:

• Work into prints with a range of media e.g. pens, colour pens and paints.
• Experiment with a range of media to overlap and layer creating interesting colours and textures and effects.
• Use relief or impressed method.

VOCABULARY

abstract    splattered    dabbed      stroked      dotted       imaginary   relief    impressed

The Darkest Dark

EARTH & SPACE

AUTUMN 1

OUTCOME: Adapt an image from the key text with a 2D background and 3D foreground. (Modroc)

KNOWLEDGE

• Understand how to control the use of tools and their suitability for different tasks.
• Know that the design process is a necessary starting point for sculpture.
• Know that materials have their limitations.

SKILLS

• Design a sculpture.
• Build up the base of a sculpture using canes, newsprint and masking tape.
• Use mod roc to mould and shape basic human forms.
• Use rollers to apply acrylic paint and how to use soft pastels to create the gentle images seen in the key text.

Mixed Media:

• Use recycled, natural and man-made materials to create sculptures.
• Plan a sculpture through drawing and other preparatory work.

VOCABULARY

shape    position    dynamic    proportion     balance      gesture   

Star of Fear, Star of Hope

WORLD WAR 1 & 2

SPRING 1

OUTCOME: To make a landscape painting of a view of an image from the key text.

KNOWLEDGE

• Know that drawing can be used to represent people, places and objects in different ways.
• Show an awareness of how paintings are created i.e. composition.
• Know that a landscape is an image of natural scenery such as mountains.

SKILLS  

Drawing:

• Begin to use simple perspective in their work using a single focal point and horizon.
• Explore colour mixing and blending techniques with coloured pencils.
• Use tonal contrast and mixed media.

Painting:

• Identify and work with complementary and contrasting colours.

VOCABULARY

perspective    view point    vocal point    composition       

Jeremy Button

The Island

MULTICULTURALISM

SUMMER 1

OUTCOME: Produce a collage based on different sea creatures. Use the text ‘The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish’ for inspiration.

KNOWLEDGE

• Know how colour, pattern, shape and texture complement each other.
• Understand that colour and images from nature can be used as a starting point.

SKILLS  

Mixed Media:

• Create printing blocks by simplifying an initial journal idea.
• Create prints with three overlays.
• Add collage to a painted, printed or drawn background.
• Use a range of media to create collages.
• Use different techniques, colours and textures when designing and making pieces of work.
• Use collage as a means of extending work from initial ideas.

VOCABULARY

embellish    enhance   practicality    manipulation   

Manfish

TROPICAL SEAS