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Art and Design
Opportunities for children to explore ideas, experiment, invent and create their own works of art and design are central to our Art and Design curriculum. Focusing on developing and refining a range of skills including drawing, painting, sculpture, printing and craft and design techniques we explore colour, line, pattern, texture, shape, form and space. Central to our learning is studying the works of great artists and designers from throughout history and across a range of cultures and we learn to use the vocabulary of art, craft and design to analyse and evaluate our own and others’ creative pieces.
Autumn Term 2021
Early Years, Year 1 and 2
Investigating materials
We’ll be folding, scrunching, tearing, cutting and pleating papers and fabrics in Art this term, experimenting with different ways of joining them together and colouring them using dyes and water-based paints. We will investigate different weaving techniques and then select a range of materials to make our own weavings from natural and made materials.
Spring Term 2022
Year 3 and 4
Journeys
Our starting point for our exploration of journeys in art is how journeys are visually represented in our own and other cultures, with a focus on works by Paul Klee and David Hockney and on symbolism in Aboriginal art, in particular Emily Kngwarreye’s paintings. A point of discussion will be whether art can be read like words and music. We will invent imaginary journeys and talk about details we might spot and will share details of familiar, real-life journeys, creating and embellishing signs and symbols to represent these. Finally, we will use marks and lines, pattern, texture and colour to represent a journey, real or imagined, choosing materials and processes such as painting, collage and print making that best convey its different parts.
Key vocabulary for this focus:-
texture, symbol, structures, perspective, traditional, indigenous, aerial, birds-eye view, as the crow flies, diagrams, collage, mixed-media, vibrant, subtle, portray, Ordnance Survey
Year 5 and 6
We will complete our head gear (hats) and have a photo shoot\fashion show! Click here to view our hats.
Spring Term 2020
Rec and Year 1: Art and Design for this term is inspired by our investigation into toys in both History and Design and Technology. We will be working in both two and three dimensions, focusing on drawing skills, printing techniques and modelling using clay and papier-mâché.
Year 2 and 3: Mother nature is our source of inspiration this term as we explore shape, line, colour and texture in the natural world. We will then use our observational drawings of natural objects as the basis for mixed-media collages.
Year4, 5 and 6: This term we are exploring the craft tradition of making vessels and containers. After researching works from different cultures and by a range of contemporary designers and ceramicists we will design and make our own vessels or containers.
You can see the National Curriculum Art Programmes of study by clicking on the link below
