What do we want our curriculum to achieve?

• Equip pupils to successfully think, work and communicate like an artist.
• Develop pupils’ oracy and vocabulary skills to enable them to use artistic language meaningfully when talking about their work and the work of others.

How do we fulfil this?

Our KS1 Art curriculum is organised into blocks with each block covering a particular set of artistic disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, 3D and collage.

Vertical progression in each discipline has been deliberately woven into the fabric of the curriculum so that pupils can revisit key disciplines throughout their learning journey at increasing degrees of challenge and complexity.

In addition to the core knowledge required to be successful within each discipline, the curriculum outlines key aspects of artistic development in the Working Artistically section. Each module will focus on developing different aspects of these competencies. 

Shape	Line	Colour	Value	Form	Texture	Space
Shape is a flat (2D) area surrounded by an outline or edge	Lines are used to show movement and mood.	Colour is used to convey atmosphere and mood.	Value is the intensity of colour and depends on the amount of white added.	Artists use form when they create sculptures. These are 3D shapes	Texture is the look and feel of a surface.	Space in artwork makes a flat image look like it has form.

Working artistically

Central to the learning modules are activities designed to develop pupils’ oracy and vocabulary skills to enable them to use artistic language meaningfully when talking about their work and the work of others.

Yr1 Learning Modules

Drawing: explore materials & tools for mark making

Painting: explore mark making with paint using primary colours

• Printmaking:  explore resist & relief block printing, negative stencils & clay slabs

 

• Textiles: explore weaving with natural & man-made materials. Explore wrap, tie, knot & peg techniques for fabric dying.

 

• 3D: use natural & man made materials.  Create plaster casts from clay impressions.

• Collage:  explore the visual & tactile qualities of natural & man-made objects.

Year 2 Learning Modules

• Drawing:  explore mood & represent movement through mark making.

• Painting:  explore line colour & shape, make own painting tools and develop colour mixing skills to include secondary colours.

• Printmaking:  create repeated patterns with positive and negative space.  Use natural objects as stimulus.

Textiles & Collage:  select appropriate pre-used images, colours and textures to create a new picture.

 3D:  join materials together to form a 3D work of indigenous style of art.