Stainton School aims to encourage creativity through a wide variety of forms and expression.
All children are encouraged to develop their artistic creativity, learn new skills and processes and develop their existing talents. They are given opportunities to explore a wide range of materials, tools and techniques in 2D, 3D and digital media.
Art and Design allows children to understand and respond to the world around them by communicating what they see, feel and think through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials and processes. It gives the children a platform to develop self-esteem and individuality – raising self-confidence across the primary curriculum.
The children are taught about art appreciation and about how art can improve their local environment through art and design activities. The children have sketchbooks, which they take with them through the school, to explore ideas and experiment with techniques. They can adapt and annotate ideas, revisiting them on a regular basis.
By studying the work of artists and designers, they explore ideas, meanings and work in styles similar to their own. Through learning about the roles and functions of art, they can explore the impact it has had on contemporary life and that of different times and cultures. The appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts enriches all our lives.
Planning at all levels is differentiated for individual needs to allow children to access the curriculum and express themselves in the creative way that art embodies.
The National Curriculum for Art & Design in Key Stage 1
Pupils are taught:
The National Curriculum for Art & Design in Key Stage 2
Pupils are taught:
Art curriculum
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ART GENRE | FINE MOTOR SKILLS AND SKETCHING | COLOURS AND PAINTING | COLLAGE/ SCISSOR AND PAPER SKILLS | 3D MODELLING/ SCULPTURE | TEXTILES | PRINTING | ||
Nursery | Large mark making on a vertical surface – using a range of equipment | Naming and recognising colours | Use one-handed tools – tweezers, cotton buds, glue spreaders | Exploring the different ways to create and manipulate playdough | Identifying patterns around them. Talk about them using informal language | Block printing: sponge, potato and block | ||
Reception | Mark making-explore using different materials to make marks In Sketchbooks: Children experiment with mark-making, they explore ways of drawing individual features of the face, using contour marks like Giacometti. Develop to a looking task: still life object
| Paint – experiment with primary colours Mix different hues of primary colours Secondary colour mixing | Fine motor skills - Use scissors to cut simple shapes Experiment ripping technique | Use plasticine to create 3d form ; experiment with natural materials
| Look at pattern on textiles; look at purpose of textiles Repeating patterns | Printing skills –Rubbings over different objects and materials; leaving impressions in plasticine Explore pattern making | ||
Enquiry | Exploring the natural world; explore natural materials as a source of natural pigments; explore objects through senses | |||||||
Yr 1 Materials and Media | Drawing – pencils -different line length and thickness | Paint (poster; acrylic) – Use thick and thin brushes to produce lines and shapes ; mix to make secondary colours Mix different hues of primary colours Secondary colour mixing | Collage_ sort and use range of materials that are cut(scissors, torn glued) Use scissors to cut simple shapes Experiment ripping technique | Sculpture (plasticine; clay) rolling cutting moulding carving | Textile: sorting cutting joining with glue
| Print use repeat or overlapping stamps and everyday objects inc monoprinting using stamps and rubbings | ||
Vocab |
| Thick thin long short + comparatives; light; dark | Thick thin long short + comparatives Primary secondary colours; light; dark line | Mathematical 2d shapes; cut; straight | Pattern Line shape texture |
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ENQUIRY | Open ended – no direct outcome given to children Experimenting with different materials Self-expression Creativity Begin to use art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space with a range of materials | |||||||
Artist | Giacometti | Kadinsky
| Matisse | Anthony Caro | Anni Albers | Kadinsky | ||
Yr 1/2 Materials and Media | Pencil – 1 Drawing – pencils -different line length and thickness show pattern using lines and dots +yr 1 skill. Introduce to soft and hard graphite pencils | Painting – 1 use a variety of thick and thin brushes to produce lines and shapes, 2 textures and patterns secondary colour mixing plus white to create tints/black to create tone | Collage – 1 Collage_ sort and use range of materials that are cut(scissors, torn glued) Use scissors to cut simple shapes Experiment ripping technique 2 coiling paper, overlapping for effect and montage(form an image with magazine cuttings) Show more control of cutting skills e.g. feathering | Sculpture – 1 Sculpture (plasticine; clay) rolling cutting moulding carving 2 combine shapes to make recognisable shapes (clay plasticine) | Textile – 1 sorting cutting joining with glue 2 weave and join using glue/stitching | Print – 1 Print use repeat or overlapping stamps and everyday objects inc monoprinting using stamps and rubbings 2 use repeat or overlapping shapes using objects plus experiment with rolling with acrylic and carbon paper | ||
| Use and apply art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space with a range of materials
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Artist | Kline – simple lines | Cezanne | Matisse | Barbara Hepworth | Chanel | Torres Garcia | ||
Describe similarities and differences and make links to own work
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Yr 3 /4 Materials and Media | 3 Pencil – introduce life drawings using diff pencils (short unit to maintain skills) – link to science 4 | 3 Painting - painting, use white to make tints and black to make tones and create a colour wheel 4 Paint – watercolour washes
| 3 Collage – select from previous skills to use to create a particular effect Consider the effect of chosen materials and technique 4-Collage – mixed media collage Use paper skills to build 3d form
| 3Sculpture – create 3d maps using paper Clay tiles to practise techniques – texture that conveys feelings expression or movement. Refine use of tools 4 Sculpture – develop yr 3 skills – junk sculpture using texture to convey feelings of movement or expression
| 3 Digital media – use digital drawing app to experiment with lines shape 4 In digital media, use a range of tools to create images, video and sound recordings
| Textiles (Seasonal crafting activities) -use plaiting and dip-dye techniques
| 3 Print – use diff techniques print press roll rub – relief and impress skills in Aluminium foil 4Print-use layers of 2 or more colours to create colour | |
Sketchbk |
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Artist | Paul Cadden | Lowry (painter/architect) Georgia O’Keefe | Guiseppe Arcimboldo | Alexander calder wire | Sean Charmatz | William Morris | ||
Know about great artists, architects and designers and how their art/design reflected and shaped our history | ||||||||
Yr 4/5 Materials and Media | Yr 4 Sketching Pencil – use range of pencils and holding techniques to show effect Introduce perspective, movement and reflection/show personal style 5 technique to show effect Life drawing | 4 Paint – watercolour washes 5 Paint – watercolour – moods Use watercolour paint techniques for fine detail In painting, use watercolours to produce washes for backgrounds
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Textile – In textiles, use basic cross and back stitch | 4 Sculpture – develop yr 3 skills – junk sculpture using texture to convey feelings of movement or expression 5 Sculpture –combine visual tactile qualities Sculpture – quick clay figurative model In sculpture, include texture that conveys feelings, expression or movement and refine use of tools
| 4-Collage – mixed media collage Collage – mosaic and montage
5 combine visual and tactile qualities
| 4Print-use layers of 2 or more colours to create colour Lino printing 3d gallery after visit to city gallery 5 Print – make printing blocks to create repeating pattern Explore images and recreates texture through deliberate selection of materials, wallpapers, string, polystyrene
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Sketchbook |
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Artist | Michaelangelo | Gainsborough focus colour and constructing washes to represent back middle foreground | Revisit Matisse + | Michelle Reader | Clare Hunter | Roanna Monaghan Polly Marix Evans(local artist) | ||
Know about great artists, architects and designers and how their art/design reflected and shaped our history and contributed to the culture of our nation | ||||||||
Yr 6 Materials and Media | explore drawing on new surfaces/still life in style of artist e.g. cubist | Cover both objectives 5 use watercolour for fine detail 6 watercolours – combine colours tones tints to create mood | 6 Digital media - Enhance digital media by editing including sound, video, animation, still images and installations | Sculpture – figurative model | Textile – use basic cross and back stitch Deconstruct old items to make new items(DT) | Print – make printing blocks to create patterns
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Artist | Pablo Picasso | Van Gogh | Banksy inspire nation | Henry Moore | Vivienne Westwood | Katsushika Hokusai |