Art Curriculum 2020 2021
Intent
At the Federation of Bedenham and Holbrook Primary Schools, we value Art as an important part of the pupil’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. Art is a subject that provides children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and knowledge and to express and record their individual interests, thoughts and ideas. The subject is structured to maximise chances to interleave art with other subjects.
Art units follow a learning journey shaped around the enquiry wheel which allows questioning, investigating, practise, application and evaluation whereby children are able to make memorable connections. Art is planned using the skills progression and the school overview to ensure that there is coverage of all skills across the year and as the children move up the school. Opportunities are provided (art galleries, team days, artist visits and art clubs) for children to work collaboratively as well as produce outcomes independently, creating a community of enthusiastic artists. We provide art experiences that challenge all and allow for opportunities to master vocabulary, knowledge and skills. Children are to become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques and these skills are planned to link to other topics to deepen the children’s understanding of art in context.
We ensure that children can evaluate and analyse creative works using and fully understanding the language of art, craft and design; they know about great artists, craft makers and designers and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms and can speak about these confidently. Our pupils are able to learn and progress as artists (from their individual starting points) from verbal feedback given by teachers and peers and as a result, a growth mind set is developed within this subject. Our aim for 2020-2021 is to develop evaluations during units of work as well as at the end of a unit and to ensure that children are using artistic vocabulary securely.
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| Year 1/2 Cycle A |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Jackson Pollock. |
Art concept: Children to learn about the art concept of weaving and the history of the skill. Skill: The children practise and learn to weave using paper, strong wool and then progressing to other materials. Investigate: The children practise weaving (materials, canvases and scales). Children to collect, sort and discuss materials for weaving and evaluate their outcomes. Outcome: Weaved paper, natural materials and fences using colours linking to Kenya. Curriculum link: Geography – Kenya |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Picasso. Skill: The children draw using line and tone to represent things seen, remembered or observed within drawing and move towards solid infilling with colour pencils. They learn to hold and use a camera for photography; they sort, organise, overlap to create collage. Investigate: The children use a camera to select and capture with clear intention. They make choices about positions, scale and sizes of features and practise creating collages using photography, drawing and materials. Outcome: The children alter images through collage to create a portrait in the style of Picasso. Curriculum link: transition (who am I?) |
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| Year 1/2 Cycle B | Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Guiseppe Arcimboldo Skill: drawing, collage and block printing Investigate: the different outcomes using different fruit and vegetables. Children choose and decide which objects represent different facial features. Outcome: block printing on bunting (display in Harvest assembly) Curriculum Link: Harvest |
Artist: Salvador Dali Investigate: how paint moves and how colours are used to create mood and feeling. Outcome: paint pour over 3D objects as designers. Curriculum Link: Science – melting |
Artist: Richard Shilling Outcome: sculpture using willow, sticks, leaves. Curriculum Link: Science – environment. |
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| Year 3/4 Cycle A | Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Andy Goldworthy. Skills: Children draw, paint and sculpt with a focus on form, shape, pattern, texture and colour. Investigate: How is colour and shape used within his environmental art. The children find interesting canvases and create patterns using natural resources before choosing resources and painting using hues of colour. Outcome: stone sculptures Curriculum link: environment |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Megan Duncanson Investigate: How is texture used within the artist’s work? |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Andy Warhol Skill: Children to understand and use the different techniques of block and mono printing. Children to draw their own print. Investigate: the outcomes of the two techniques of printing. Outcome: animal cruelty posters using printing Curriculum link: Science – animal protection from pollution |
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| Year 3/4 Cycle B |
Artist: Prehistoric Art Skill: Children to draw with natural resources (charcoal). Children paint and mix primary colours to create secondary colours with the addition of black and white to create other hues. Investigate: Children investigate the visual and tactile qualities in materials and explore the effect on paint of adding water, glue, sand, sawdust. They look at how natural resources can be used to create paint. Outcome: Abstract painting Curriculum Link: History – Stone Age |
Artist: Photography of nature Outcome: class collaborative collage of photographs Curriculum Link: Science – plants |
Artist: Erika Farkas Skill: drawing portraits (whole sketches) considering size and proportion. Children to create texture using a range of drawing techniques and to create mood through their drawing. Investigate: drawing with pencil and charcoal Outcome: anti-bullying poster including a portrait. Curriculum Link: PSHE anti-bulling |
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| Year 5/6 Cycle A | Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Norval Morrisseau Skill: The children draw in the style of the artist using continuous lines and stitch using a range of needles (textiles). Investigate: The children investigate how wax and ink resist and experiment on a range of materials and analyse the outcomes. Outcome: Jute bags created in the style of artist using ink and wax. Curriculum Link: Science (animals- including humans) |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Johanna Basford and explore patterns linked to a period of time. They link their artwork to designer Cath Kidston. Skill: The children draw and continue patterns on a range of canvases. Create their patterns and print/batik on fabric, paper and other materials. Investigate: They investigate historical and modern patterns looking at colour and scale. Outcome: Children to design and create their own patterns on fabric. Curriculum Link: History – Tudor patterns |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist Chihuly Skill: Draw shapes and ideas like the artist before creating hues using paint and creating an abstract sculpture. Investigate: The children experiment with shapes, colour and position of transparent and translucent materials and analyse how light, colour and texture affect the outcome. Outcome: Sculpture using plastic Curriculum Link: Science – materials/nature/light |
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| Year 5/6 Cycle B |
Artist: Children to learn about and explore artist M.C Escher Skill: Drawing using a range of materials to produce line, tone and shade. The children confidently use line, tone and texture to represent objects in three dimensions. Investigate: How light and shade create three dimensional images (spheres) investigate using different mediums. Outcome: Sphere drawing – planet drawings. Curriculum Link: Science – Planets (light and shade) |
Artist: David Gosling (environmental art) Skill: Drawing using a range of materials to produce line, tone and shade. The children confidently use line, tone and texture to create portraits. I make imaginative use of the knowledge I have acquired of tools, techniques and materials to create sculpture. Photograph using light and angles. Investigate: How interesting canvases can be used to display sculpture. Outcome: Clay face sculptures on tree canvases. Curriculum Link: Greek mythology |
Artist: Jen Aranyi Skill: drawing, sculpting (wire) Investigate: Children investigate the different lines used on a landscape and create these lines with wire. They experiment with different mediums to create blended wash of colour. Outcome: landscape wire sculpture, landscape in the style of Jen Aranyi on adventurous canvases. Curriculum Link: Geography – North and South America |
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