Curriculum overview for art
Drawing
• Exploring mark-making in all its forms, experimenting with line, tone and texture and using a wide range of materials to express their ideas in drawings.
• Using sketchbooks to record observations and plans as drawings.
• Learning about how artists develop their ideas using drawings.
Painting and mixed media
• Developing painting skills including colour mixing on a range of surfaces and with different tools.
. Our art curriculum consists of four aspects of art. Key artists have been identified and the themes of the units are, where appropriate, linked to the main texts for the term.
• Exploring the interplay between different media within an artwork.
Sculpture and 3D
• Investigating ways to express ideas in three-dimensions.
• Constructing and modelling with a variety of materials, shaping and joining materials to achieve an outcome.
• Developing drawn ideas into sculpture.
Craft and design
• Designing and making art for different purposes, considering how this works in creative industries. Learning new making techniques, comparing these and making decisions about which to use to achieve a particular outcome
• Developing personal, imaginative responses to a design brief.
There are five strands to ensure that pupils develop their practical and theoretical substantive and disciplinary knowledge across the phases.
• Making skills – developing the practical substantive knowledge of methods, techniques, media, materials and the formal elements of line, tone, shape, colour, form, pattern and texture.
• Knowledge of artists – developing theoretical substantive knowledge of different artists, their work and their materials and processes.
• Evaluating and analysing – developing their disciplinary knowledge of how art is studied, discussed and judged.
• Generating ideas
• Using sketchbooks
Sketchbooks are a key part of our art learning. Each sketchbook is unique to the child and demonstrates the artistic personality of its owner. They are used explore materials, practise techniques, to record the creative process of generating ideas, planning, reflecting, improving, artistic research, responding to artists and their art and showcasing outcomes, which may include photographs.
Both formative assessment and end of unit summative assessments inform our planning. Summative assessments are recorded termly and shared with the subject leader.
