Curriculum overview for art
Intent
The art curriculum at Oakfield is designed to inspire in our pupils a passion and enthusiasm for creative expression. Through the study of artists and designers, pupils develop the ability to reflect on, analyse and critically evaluate their own work and the work of others.
Pupils are given opportunities to develop their skills using a wide range of media and materials. They learn how to draw confidently from memory, imagination and observation and develop the ability to use line, shape, pattern, colour, texture and form to express themselves and communicate their ideas. They are given opportunities to explore, deconstruct and innovate, developing their own creativity and the ability to select and use materials, processes and techniques to good effect.
The sequencing of the art curriculum has been carefully planned to allow pupils to build on prior learning and make connections both within art and across other subjects, ensuring that pupils know more and remember more.
Threshold concepts
Develop ideas
This concept involves understanding how ideas develop through an artistic process.
Master techniques
This concept involves developing a skill set so that ideas may be communicated.
Take inspiration from the greats
This concept involves learning from both the artistic process and techniques of great artists and artisans throughout history.
Artists and their art
Autumn Spring Summer
Nursery What is an artist? I am an artist
Technique: drawing, painting and printing
Reception Eric Carle
Technique: drawing and printing
Year 1 Georges Seurat
Technique: drawing and painting
Year 2 John Hayls and Jan Griffier
Technique: drawing, painting and collage
Year 3 Cave paintings
Technique: drawing and painting
Year 4 William Morris and Owen Jones
Technique: drawing and printing
Year 5 Hans Holbein (the younger) and Jessica Miller
Technique: drawing and painting
Year 6 Paul Nash and Pablo Picasso
Technique: drawing and painting
Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Technique: drawing, printing and collage
Vincent Van Gogh
Technique: drawing, painting and collage
Andy Goldsworthy
Technique: drawing and sculpture (clay)
Vincent Van Gogh
Technique: drawing and printing (polystyrene and string)
Shraddha Shrestha
Technique: drawing and printing
Beatrix Potter and Helen Musselwhite
Technique: drawing, collage and sculpture
Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
Technique: drawing, printing and collage
Georges Braques and Pablo Picasso
Technique: drawing, printing and collage
L.S. Lowry
Technique: drawing and sculpture
Chris Kenny
Technique: drawing and sculpture
Richard Burel
Technique: drawing, printing and collage
L.S. Lowry
Technique: drawing and sculpture (clay)
Pietro Cavellini and Krystie Rose Millich
Technique: drawing, collage and sculpture
Clarice Cliff and Alaa Awad
Technique: drawing and painting
Antoni Gaudi and Laura Harris
Technique: drawing and sculpture
Claude Monet and Beatriz Milhazes
Technique: drawing and sculpture(wire and mod roc)
Lesson and task design
Links to prior learning and retrieval practice
Explore the work of artists
Master technique
Develop ideas
Create an original piece
The Nature of Thinking
The Nature of Thinking supports our task design within different year groups
Year 1, 3 and 5 focus on the basic
Years 2, 4 and 6 progress to advancing and deepening
Basic Advancing Deepening
Name
Describe
Follow instructions or methods
Complete Recall
Observe Use
Match Report
Measure List
Illustrate Label Recognise Tell Repeat Arrange
Define
Memorise
Calculate Recite
Draw recall
Apply skills to solve problems
Explain methods
Classify Infer
Categorise Identify patterns
Organise
Modify Predict Interpret Summarise
Estimate Compare Use Experiment
Demonstrate Practise Show Arrange Point out Graph separate
Solve non-routine problems
Appraise Explain concepts
Hypothesise
Investigate Cite evidence
Design Create Prove Judge Recommend
Justify Generalise
Propose Discover Arrange Rate
Evaluate Revise Conclude Formulate Construct Develop Connect Prioritise
