Art and Design
Subject Map
Key Stage 1
 Use a range of materials creatively
to design and make products.
 Use drawing, painting and
sculpture to develop and share
their ideas, experiences and
imagination.
 Develop a wide range of art and
design techniques using colour,
pattern, texture, line, shape, form
and space.
 Learn about the work of a range of
artists, craft makers and
designers, describing the
differences and similarities
between practices and disciplines,
and making links to their own
work.
Key Stage 2
 Create sketchbooks to record
their observations and use them
to review and revisit ideas.
 Improve their mastery of art and
design techniques including
pencil, charcoal, paint and clay
 Learn about great artists,
architects and designers in
history.
The subject map below shows how one school has interpreted this content. It has chosen to teach
art by linking it with other subjects and an overarching theme.
Year Autumn
Naming colours and colour mixing
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ART AND DESIGN
Spring
Summer
Printing
Drawing
Printing to create simple patterns
Observational drawings of themselves and
objects
Artist: Andy Warhol
Printing
Drawing
for bright colours and self-portraits
Printing with natural objects to create
simple patterns
Line drawings – developing pencil control
(link to fine motor skills)
Painting
Use of colour to represent people or objects
Sculpture
Explore clay, dough and plasticine
1
Paintings
Experiments with and enjoys colour e.g.
mixing powder paint primary colours.
Creates pattern using different tools and
colours.
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Using different media makes a variety of
patterned lines, wavy, straight, zig-zag,
thick, thin, narrow and wide.
Artist to explore: Lowry
2
Printing
Sculpture
Extends repeating patterns - overlapping,
using two contrasting colours etc.
Uses clay, dough and plasticine
Sorts according to specific qualities, e.g.
warm, cold, shiny, smooth.
Engages in more complex activities, e.g.
cutting and sewing a variety of materials
(link to Science topic)
Cut, roll and coil materials.
Explores and recreates patterns and
Adds texture to models using tools
textures with an extended range of materials Make shapes from rolled up paper, straws,
- e.g. sponges, leaves, fruit.
paper and card. Link to Geography topic
on Africa
Paintings
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Uses colour and marks to express mood.
Experiments with water colours, colour
washes, ready mix paint etc.
Collage work
Explores tone using different grades of
pencil, pastel and chalk.
Represents things observed, remembered
or imagined, using colour and tools.
Printing
Explores images through monoprinting on
a variety of papers
Explores images and recreates textures
using wallpaper, string, polystyrene etc
Sculpture
Artist: Kandinsky
Make a clay pot.
3
4
Collage work
Make a carving using dry clay.
Has experience of adhesives and decides
on the most effective choice for a given task.
Adds lines, shape and texture to clay work
with tools.
Develops skills of overlapping and
overlaying.
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Paintings
Printing
Introduces different types of brushes for
Uses line and tone to represent things seen, specific purposes.
remembered or observed.
Explores the effect on paint of adding
Explores colour mixing through printing,
using two colours and a variety of
materials.
Explores shading, using different media.
water, glue, sand and sawdust.
Uses printing to represent the natural
environment.
Collage work
Sculpture
Develops awareness of contrasts in texture
and colour.
Uses the technique of adding materials to
create texture, feeling expression or
movement (e.g. wrinkles on a portrait
sculpture).
Paintings
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Introduces primary and secondary colours
with the addition of black and white and
other hues.
Recreates images through relief printing
using card.
Sculpture
Creates different effects by using a variety
of tools and techniques such as dots,
scratches and splashes.
Explore paper techniques such as pop-up
books and origami.
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Draws familiar things from different
viewpoints.
Uses line, tone and shade to represent
things seen, remembered or imagined e.g.
experiment with shading to create a 3D
effect.
Collage work (link with DT)
Embellishes, using a variety of techniques,
including drawing, painting and printing.
Printing
Add paper curlings or other objects to a
surface to embellish.
Architects of Abbeys (Link to History
project)
5
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Experiment with line, tone and shade.
Uses a range of materials to produce line,
tone and shade.
Uses simple ways of introducing
perspective.
Artist: Anthony Gormley (Sculptor)
Paintings
Printing
Uses different methods, colour and a
variety of tools and techniques to express
mood.
Designs prints for fabrics, book covers and
wallpaper. (Link to Maths)
Investigates symbols, shapes, form and
composition.
Sculpture
Uses carvings on a surface to create
shapes, texture and pattern.
Uses carvings techniques to reflect images
observed and drawn in the natural world.
Collage work
Develops experience in embellishing, using
more advanced stitching and appliqué
techniques.
Link to Iron Man (English topic)
6
Paintings
Uses techniques, colours, tools and effects
to represent things seen, remembered or
imagined.
Explores the effect of light, colour, texture
and tone on natural and man-made objects.
(Link to volcanoes in Geography)
Collage work
Designs an artefact, using knowledge of
techniques, for a specific outcome.
Link to Rainforest work in Geography
Drawings (e.g. pencil, chalk, pastel,
charcoal)
Selects appropriate media and techniques
to achieve a specific outcome.
Shows greater emphasis to detail e.g.
facial expression, folds on clothing,
proportion etc.
Artist: Georgia O’Keeffe (link to women)
Sculpture
Uses a variety of tools and techniques for
sculpting in clay, papier-mâché or other
mouldable material to create, e.g link to
masks for Leavers’ Assembly
Portraiture work which has a life-like quality
gained by choosing and applying to most
appropriate techniques.
Models on a range of scales which
communicate their observations from the
real or natural world.