Upper Key Stage 2 Progression in Art, Craft and Design
Exploring and developing ideas
Evaluating and Developing Work
Select and record from first hand observation, experience and imagination, and explore ideas for different
purposes.
Question and make thoughtful observations about starting points and their own ideas.
Identify artists who have worked in a similar way to their own
Continue to develop and select work for their sketchbooks
Compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others’ work.
Say what they think and feel about them
Adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might
develop it further.
Annotate work in sketchbooks
Drawing`
Shape
First hand observational drawings from ranging
viewpoints including images taken using digital
camera(experiment with distances, birds eye views )
Develop close observation skills using a variety of
view finders
Tone
Texture
Perspective and Composition
Transform drawings into more abstract pieces by experimenting with scales and sections of pieces
Use dry media to make different marks, lines, patterns and shapes: charcoal, chalks, thick markers pen/ink, graded
pencils) from life and imagination onto ranging colour/ textured and sized backgrounds
Introduce perspective/ fore, middle, backgrounds,
focal points, horizon.
Begin to investigate proportion, scale and composition
Show an awareness of how paintings are created
Start to develop own style using tonal contrast and mixed media
Work in a sustained and independent way to create
detailed drawing
Painting
Printing
Textiles
3-D
Collage
Digital Media
Build upon previous work on colour mixing by exploring
consistency/texture of paint and application techniques (
adding pva glue, scraping paint on with cardboard, opaque,
translucent, stippled, pointillism or use of dots and dashes,
dribbled, swirling)
Form detailed low relief prints
Experiment with batik techniques
Experiment with a range of
techniques to overlap and layer
creating interesting colours and
textures
Add collage to painted,
printed or drawn
backgrounds
Record, collect and store visual information using
digital cameras and video
Create printing blocks by simplifying
an initial sketch
Shape, form, model and
construct from observation
and imagination
Use recycled, natural and
manmade materials to create
sculptures
Select a range of media to
create collages
Create prints with 3 overlays
Introduce use of acrylic paint (consider work by artists such
as Cezanne, Derain , Van Gogh) Select aspects from different
images to begin forming own piece
Development of watercolour techniques working on range
of scales onto watercolour paper
Mark making with paint using lines, dashes, blocks of colour
and a limited colour palette in style of Fauve artists Derain,
Vlaminck and Braque
Build upon observational drawings by adding colour using
paint, contribute towards a group painting
Build simple observational drawings into paintings using
fine brushes, develop into fabric silk paintings
Evidence of the development of a piece of work contributing
towards a final outcome ( stages of trying out techniques,
collecting starting points) design sets of paintings e.g. a
collection of postage stamps
Begin to work on canvas
Starting to take risks with paintings incorporating mixed
media such as collage materials
Use of images and forms created in
sketchbooks to create polystyrene
blocks to polyprint using roller and
inks.
Introduction to monoprinting
Artists that used monoprinting include
David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Picasso
and Jim Dine )
Use of roller and ink on different
surfaces to create low relief printing
blocks ( corrugated card, foil, craft
papers)
Experience of screen printing
Develop techniques from paper
printing to work onto fabrics
Use dyes, paints, batiks, applique
to design their own textile
Present recorder images using software
Plan a sculpture through
drawing and other
preparatory work
Develop clay skills including
stabs, coils, slips
Produce intricate patterns
and textures in malleable
materials
Use different techniques,
colours and textures when
designing own pieces of
work
Use collage as a means of
extending work from initial
ideas
Use a graphics package to create and manipulate
images
Import an image into a graphics package
Create layered images from original drawings and
ideas