Art

Art has a significant and valuable role to play in the overall ethos of this school. Art is an ongoing process through which all children are given opportunities to develop specific skills, knowledge and understanding to enable them to work in variety of media, style and form. It enables children of all abilities to use their creative imagination to achieve their potential with guidance and given criteria.

Children work individually and within a group to develop their social and personal skills. Art is not taught in isolation, although it retains its creative base and its skills and techniques. Wherever appropriate it is linked to other areas of the curriculum and gives children the opportunities to develop specific art skills and reinforces skills already established.

Home Learning

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Meet the Art Technicians

We are a group of creative individuals that work together to form the Art Technicians. Our role is to keep the school displays beautifully organised and ensure all of our work is presented to an exceptionally high standard.

Art Technicians

Curriculum Sequence and Progression

Autumn

Core Skills and Colour Theory

Portraits

Artists: Vermeer, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Ofilli

Figure Drawing

Artists: Dutch Golden Age, Impressionists

Figure Drawing

Artists: Henry Moore

Spring

Portraits

Artists: Da Vinci, Matisse, Lichtenstein

Still Life

Artists: Picasso, Cezanne

Landscapes

Artists: Turner, Constable, Van Gogh, Hockney

Landscapes

Artists: Edward Hopper, Impressionists

Summer

Printing

Artists: Hokusai, M.C Escher, Morris, Picasso

Sculpture

Artists: Michelangelo, Rodin, Brancusi, Degas, Hepworth

Natural Forms

Rousseau, Kahlo, O’Keefe, Monet

Architecture

Styles: Baroque, Neo Classical, Modernism

Curriculum – weekly lessons

Year 3 - Autumn - First half term

Week 1

Rules, expectations and presentation

Week 2

Outcome

To draw different marks using a variety of pencil grades

Week 3

Outcome

To create depth using shading with pencils

Week 4

Outcome

To create textures with a pencil

Week 5

Outcome

To draw a landscape with shading and texture techniques

Week 6

Outcome

To create different strokes using a paint brush

Week 7

Outcome

To present the relationship between colours on a colour wheel

Week 8

Outcome

To blend and shade using paint

Year 3 - Spring - First half term

Week 1

Outcome

To recall the key features of styles of portraiture

Week 2

Outcome

To draw facial features

Week 3

Outcome

To draw a face using traditional proportions

Week 4

Outcome

To recall the traditional proportions for a face and study a drawing

Week 5

Outcome

To paint a portrait with poster paints

Week 6

Outcome

To paint details with fine brushesTrip to National Gallery

Year 3 - Summer - First half term

Week 1

Outcome

To identify the features of the style of printing of William Morris

Week 2

Outcome

To draw symmetrical designs

Week 3

Outcome

To create a design onto a polystyrene plate for printing

Week 4

Outcome

To print using relief printing

Week 5

Outcome

To add further details to the print by amending a relief

Week 6

Outcome

To complete a relief print with a second print

Year 4 - Autumn - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To recall the traditional proportions of a face and features of portraiture

Week 2

Outcome

To draw the features of a face with changes to create individuality

Week 3

Outcome

To draw a face using the traditional proportions

Week 4

Outcome

To experiment with ways of shading a face

Week 5

Outcome

To analyse expressions and ways of creating individualityTrip to National Gallery

Week 6

Outcome

To paint features of the face with watercolours

Week 7

Outcome

To complete a portrait in watercolours

Year 4 - Spring - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To identify features of famous paintings in the history of still life

Week 2

Outcome

To draw and shade objects for still life

Week 3

Outcome

To prepare and draw a still life

Week 4

Outcome

To trace and analyse a still life drawing and rearrange to create a Cubist picture

Week 5

Outcome

To create a collage still life

Week 6

Outcome

To draw details and shading with pen

Year 4 - Summer - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To recall the names of famous sculptors and some features of their work

Week 2

Outcome

To make an observational drawing of natural forms

Week 3

Outcome

To design a sculpture based on the observational drawing

Week 4

Outcome

To make a paper maquette

Week 5

Outcome

To construct the first stage of a sculpture

Week 6

Outcome

To combine different elements to complete a sculpture

Year 5 - Autumn - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To compare style of Dutch Masters to Impressionists

Week 2

Outcome

To recall the proportions of the human figure for drawing

Week 3

Outcome

To analyse drawings of people in various positions

Week 4

Outcome

To analyse, draw and shade clothing on figures

Week 5

Outcome

To draw and paint a clothed figure

Week 6

Outcome

To paint details and textures using fine brushstrokes with watercolours

Week 7

Outcome

To shade and add detail to a figure drawing with pen lines

Year 5 - Spring - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To analyse and compare famous artists’ treatment of landscapes

Week 2

Outcome

To analyse the work of David Hockney and draw various elements of a landscape

Week 3

Outcome

To draw a landscape in the style of David Hockney

Week 4

Outcome

To paint a background tonally with a limited palette of poster paints

Week 5

Outcome

To paint the foreground of a landscape

Week 6

Outcome

To add textural details to a landscape

Year 5 - Summer - Second half term

Week 1

Outcome

To inspect the work of famous artists

Week 2

Outcome

To make an observational drawing of natural forms

Week 3

Outcome

To enlarge a picture with a viewfinder

Week 4

Outcome

To shade tonally with poster paint

Week 5

Outcome

To paint an enlarged picture

Week 6

Outcome

To add detail to complete a painting

Year 6 - Autumn - First half term

Week 1

Outcome

Rules, expectations and presentation

Week 2

Outcome

To recall the proportions of the human figure for drawing

Week 3

Outcome

To inspect the work of Henry Moore

Week 4

Outcome

To draw people in different positions

Week 5

Outcome

To describe the steps to create one-point perspective

Week 6

Outcome

To draw a group of figures with some in front of others

Week 7

Outcome

To shade and create emphasis in shading using wax crayons

Week 8

Outcome

To create sepia tones with watercolours over wax drawings

Year 6 - Spring - First half term

Week 1

Outcome

To describe the style, and landscapes of Edward Hopper

Week 2

Outcome

To sketch lighthouses

Week 3

Outcome

To draw a seascape in the style of Hopper on cartridge paper

Week 4

Outcome

To practise and experiment with watercolour effects for sea, hills and sky

Week 5

Outcome

To paint the background elements of a landscape

Week 6

Outcome

To paint to complete a painting

Year 6 - Summer - First half term

Week 1

Outcome

To recall the names of the most famous architects and features of key architectural styles

Week 2

Outcome

To analyse and sketch the key visual features of building

Week 3

Outcome

To sketch a design for a building combining features of architectural styles

Week 4

Outcome

To paint a design of a building with watercolours

Week 5

Outcome

To details to the illustration of a building with pen

Week 6

Outcome

To analyse various forms of perspective