Whole School Overview – Art
Year 1
Autumn1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Down under
Aboriginal Art:
Painting
Using dots and
lines
Using sticks as
a tool for drawing
Earth/natural
colours
Uses line to
represent objects
seen,
remembered or
imagined
Explores tone
using different
grades of pencil,
pastel and chalk
Uses line and
tone to represent
things seen,
remembered or
observed
Light up the sky
Andy Goldsworthy
Bonfire natural
pictures
Experiments with
and enjoys colour
Handles different
materials from the
class "bit box"
Selects and sorts,
cuts, tears,
stitches and
discusses
Get your wellies
on!
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Grow your own
Grit, Grime &
Sun, Sea & Sand
Shape and lines
Grunge
Mixed media large
magnified
William Morris
collages
Clay flower
wallpaper
Under the sea
sculpture
mural using
Joining
Printing with fruit different materials
techniques
and vegetables
and textures
3D stand alone
then make own
Engages in more
model
printing block.
complex activities,
Experiments with
Uses one colour
e.g. cutting and
basic tools on
of paint or ink on a sewing a variety
rigid and plastic
block
of materials
materials
Repeating
Stitches and cuts
Extends repeating patterns, random
threads and
patterns or organised, with
fibres
overlapping, using
range of blocks
two contrasting
Extends repeating
colours etc
patterns Develops an
overlapping, using
awareness of
two contrasting
scale,
colours etc
perspective,
movement and
colour in
photography
Enlarging part of a
flower
Year 2
Autumn1
Autumn 2
Home sweet
home
Marbling
Creates pattern
using different
tools and colours
Develops skills of
overlapping and
overlaying
Dear Earth
Junk model from
recycled materials
Chalk pictures
Uses line and
tone to represent
things seen,
remembered or
observed
Spring 1
Spring 2
Pirates on Parade
Right, Royal,
Observational
Rumpus
drawing and
Mixed media artmixed media art
crowns/orbs
Turner
Hockney
Compares and
Explores and
recreates form
recreates patterns
and shape to
and textures with
natural and made
an extended
environments
range of materials
Has experience of
- e.g. sponges,
adhesives and
leaves, fruit.
decides on the
Develops an
most effective for
awareness of
a given task
scale,
Simple weaving
perspective,
with strong wool
movement and
through a stiff
colour in
card
photography
Draws familiar
Develops an
things from
awareness of
different
mood, emotions
viewpoints
and feelings in
photography
Summer 1
Summer 2
Itsy, Bitsy, Teeny,
Weeny
Cezanne
Reach for the stars
Autumn1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Year 3 Under the Canopy
Stomp
Dig deeper
Collaborative
Explores images
Cave painting
collage – layers of
through
natural materials
rainforest
monoprinting on a Barbara Hepworth
(sketch book)
variety of papers Collecting natural
Sketching skills
Explores images
materials
Colour blending
and recreates
Secondary
Using variety of
texture using
materials to paint
materials
wallpaper, string,
with
Drawing skills
polystyrene etc
Simple weaving with
Able to
strong wool through a
discriminate
stiff card
between materials
Creates texture using
rigid and plastic
materials and a
variety of tools
Represents things
observed,
remembered or
imagined, using
colour/tools
Develops awareness
of contrasts in texture
and colour
Uses line, tone and
shade to represent
things seen,
remembered or
imagined
Experiments with
creating mood,
feeling, movement
and areas of interest
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Just an illusion
Bridget Riley
Optical illusions
Colour patterns
Different types of
optical illusions
Uses colour and
marks to express
mood
. Alters images
through collage,
jigsaws, positive
and negative
shapes
Uses stimuli to
create simple 2D
and 3D images
using a variety of
tools and
materials
Introduces
different types of
brushes for
specific purposes
Rotten Romans
Weaves paper,
progressing from
one to two
Rotten Romans
Autumn1
Year
4/5
A
Stormin’ Normans
Autumn 2
Spring 1
In control
The Big Freeze
Pop Art
Uses printing to
Using artists to
represent the
replicate own
natural
work
environment
Research
Recreates images
Andy Warhol
through relief
making profile of printing using card
artists
Use of block
colour
Understanding
contrasting
colours and how
they can be used
for impact.
Compares own
image and pattern
making with that
of well-known
artists (William
Morris)
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Catastrophe
Unravelling our
Viva Espana
Sculptures/papier
past
Simple stitching Mache
Stained glass
uses a long
Designing,
windows
needle to make
building and
Use different
straight stitches
evaluating
techniques, and
Uses contrasting
Develop a
colours , when
colours in stitching
painting from a
designing and
and weaving
drawing
making pieces of
Uses contrasting
Carry out
work
colours in stitching
preliminary
Use collage as a
and weaving
studies, trying out
means of
different media
extending work
and materials
from initial ideas
and mixing
Uses the natural
appropriate
environment or
colours
townscapes as a
Shows an
stimulus
awareness of
Uses different
texture, form and
methods, colour
shape by
and a variety of
recreating an
tools and
image in 3D form
techniques to
Interprets stories,
express mood
music, poems and
Embellishes,
other stimuli
using a variety of
Begins to look at
techniques,
colour and pattern including drawing,
in 3D structures,
painting and
transferring the
printing
knowledge to their
own work
Year
4/5
B
Autumn1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
WW1
Create and paint
proper gander
poster, look at
drawing
proportions.
Is happy to
experiment with
line, tone and
shade
Uses a range of
materials to
produce line, tone
and shade
Selects and uses
materials to
achieve a specific
outcome
Mayan Society
Looks at 3D work
from a variety of
genres and
cultures and
develops own
response through
experimentation
Egyptians
Learn about the
Sphinx at
Giza- how it was
built, buried,
unearthed,
built and buried
again.
Children make
own Sphinx with
their own faces
from clay
Explores the
effect on paint of
adding water,
glue, sand,
sawdust
Explores how
stimuli can be
used as a starting
point for 3D work
with a particular
focus on form,
shape, pattern,
texture, colour
Egyptians
Summer 1
Summer 2
Local
Pupil choice
Environment
Ghost pictures/
Introduces
scenes using
primary and
Charcoal
secondary colours
.Selects
with the addition appropriate media
of black and white and techniques to
and other hues
achieve a specific
Makes
outcome
connections
Creates different
between own
effects by using a
work and patterns
variety of tools
in their local
and techniques
environment (e.g.
such as dots,
curtains,
scratches and
wallpaper)
splashes
Develops an
awareness of the
natural
environment
through
Autumn1
Year
Animals in
5/6 (A)
Captivity
Old
Printing –
curric. recreates a scene
In
Builds up
2013drawings and
14
images of whole
or parts of items
using various
techniques, e.g.
card, relief
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Planet watch
Peter Thorpe
Space artist
Abstract art
inspired by space
Uses techniques,
colours, tools and
effects to
represent things
seen,
remembered or
imagined
Going bananas
Northants shoe
industry
Rotations in art:
Concentric
kirigami
Rotation overlay,
patterns, quilling
Make felt shoe
sew add details
eg. buttons and
decorate
Summer 1
If buildings could
speak
Tribal art from
around the world:
Ndebele
Aboriginal
paintings,
Polynesian Tapa,
Aztec gold,
Moorish tiles
Printing on fabric
Develops experience
tribal screen
in embellishing, using
printing for wall
more advanced
hanging
stitching and
Designs prints for
appliqué techniques
fabrics, book
Uses plaiting,
covers and
pinning, stapling,
stitching and sewing
wallpaper
techniques
Carries out screen
Stitching - using
printing
various needles to
Experiments with
produce more
approaches used
complex patterns
by other artists
Cuts and stitches
patterns
Experiments with soft
sculpture; cuts and
joins patterns,
embellishing the
components
Applies knowledge of
different techniques
as a form of
expression
Summer 2
Pupil choice
Year
5/6 (B)
Autumn1
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
All Greek to Me
Autumn Skies Silhouette and
watercolour art
work
Investigates
symbols, shapes,
form and
composition
Tudor Explorers
Ancient Greek
artefacts (Medusa
masks;
Parthenon
collage, hoplite
shields; clay
name plates)
Designs an
artefact, using
knowledge of
techniques, for a
specific outcome
Mountains
Wild Weather
Pop-art, based
on the work of
Andy Warhol
& Roy
Lichtenstein.
The Eye Project.
Collaborative
face collage
Make this 3D
instead of face do
a landscape
Recreates images
in 2D and 3D,
looking at one
area of
experience, e.g.
recreate a
landscape
painting, focus on
textures
Makes
imaginative use of
the knowledge
they have
acquired of tools,
techniques and
materials to
express own
ideas and feelings
USA
Pupil choice
Landscape art
of Georgia
O'Keeffe
Uses techniques,
colours, tools and
effects to
represent things
seen,
remembered or
imagined