Year
Group
1
Expectations
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To use a range of materials creatively to design and
make products
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and
share their ideas, experiences and imagination
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques
in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and
space
About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and
designers, describing the differences and similarities
between different practices and disciplines, and
making links to their own work.
Autumn Term
Spring Term
Summer Term
their own locality
Significant
historical people
Weather
Van Gogh and (Seuratpointillism)
A comparison between
techniques.
Painting
Picasso
Collage with
coloured card
and paint to
create different
textures.
Monet
Collage with tissue
paper
National Gallery
2
their own locality
L.S Lowry
national and
international
achievements
Chinese Art
Use pastels and
charcoal to put stick
people into a scene of
the local environment
V and A gallery
3
Stone Age, Bronze Age
Achievements of
Events beyond living
memory
(significant nationally
and globally)
Secondary colours
of a colour wheel
Create a picture
which is split into a
scene using both hot
and cold colours.
WW2
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4
& Iron Age
To create sketch books to record their observations
Use clay to create a coil
and use them to review and revisit ideas
pot.
To improve their mastery of art and design
techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture
with a range of materials (e.g. pencil, charcoal, paint,
clay)
About great artists, architects and designers in history.
Tea stain paper-Use
charcoal and pastels to
create cave paintings.
Volcanoes/Earthquakes.
Mosaics based on
different weather
conditionsGaudi
an early
civilisation:
Ancient Egypt
Use card to sculpt
an Egyptian head
piece.
The British
museum
Anglo-Saxons
Draw a pencil
drawing of an
Anglo Saxon
mask.
Focus on Tonal
Contrast
Create a sunset
background wash
then add silhouettes
of the planes and
buildings in London.
Ancient Greece
Watercolours of the
Corinthian
Make a vase using a
bottle/paper mache.
The British Museum
5
Vikings
Tudors
Henry VIII
Look at Tudor
portraiture and
tudor clothing.
Create a Viking long
boat.
Significant people
who have
contributed to
national and
international
achievements
Nelson Mandela
Mr Tinga Tinga-Use
vibrant colours and
acrylics.
Holbein
National Portrait
gallery
6
WW2
Propoganda posters.
J.Howard Miller
http://www.world-war-2diaries.com/britishworld-war-iiposters.html
The National Gallery
Victorians
Use charcoal to
create an image
of a chimney
sweep. Focus on
using tonal
contrast.(Dark
and light)
Aztecs
Look at patterns to
create a day of the
death mask.
Year Group
Skills
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Year 1
Painting
Portraiture
Collage
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Year 2
Pastel
Charcoal
Colour
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Year 3
Clay-Create
coil pots
SculptureCardboard
Silhouettes
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Year 4
Mosaics
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Tonal
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Contrast
Sculture
Paper Mache
Year 5
Sculpture
PortraitureMixed media
Acrylics
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Year 6
Political art
Charcoal and
chalk-Tonal
contrast
Patterns in
art.