Moor Nook Community Primary School

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Art

Art Curriculum Content

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Art Curriculum Document
Our Vision for Art Statement of Intent	At Moor Nook Community Primary School, we value Art and provide children with an engaging, challenging and well-rounded Art curriculum that inspires creativity for life. We believe all children are entitled to an excellent and rigorous art education. By exploring a range of artists and techniques, we enable children to experiment, develop and extend skills and express their interests, thoughts and ideas. By the end of Year 6, our children will understand how art and design has shaped our history and contributes to our culture, locality, nationality and the wider world. As teachers, we facilitate skills and nurture creativity by providing comprehensive and creative activities through a sequence of well-planned lessons. We want to create confident, independent artists who can articulate and value their own creative journey. Our school is a safe and nurturing environment where children are encouraged to take risks and learn from their creative journey rather than working towards a pre-defined outcome.
Aims	Throughout their time at Moor Nook, we aim for all children to: • Practise and develop mastery in the key processes of art – drawing, painting, printing, textile sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques • Foster engagement, enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts • Use the language of art in self and peer reflections • Have knowledge of great artists and designers and the historical and cultural impact of their art forms • Use a sketchbook as part of their learning journey • Experience using a range of media and techniques • Be inspired to create their own independent piece • Engage in relevant and exciting projects
EFYS	Exploring the natural world	Enable an active exploration of the natural world, and to making art. Encourage children to look at the world as a place containing elements they can manipulate & transform Develop hand eye coordination and dexterity skills Give opportunity to explore early mark making Encourage discovery, conversation and sharing Create a holistic approach to making art Encourage children to explore objects through senses other than sight Promote curiosity, thinking, recall & creative decision making Develop hand eye coordination Explore mark making as a way to share information Encourage playful exploration Help children explore sensory perception Promote teachers & children to create their own learning pathways Explore colour as a medium beyond paint Develop observation skills Develop mark making, drawing and painting skills Demonstrate how different art forms can feed into each other Promote group work
	Understanding Identity and Exploring Relationships	Develop dexterity and making skills Explore using drawing, colouring and collage Promote conversations about character and identity Promote ideas about story, narrative and dialogue Enable children to work alone and then contribute their work to shared experience
	Exploring the power of Creativity	Explore mark making and how it relates to the body Develop hand eye coordination Explore right and left hand drawing Exploration of drawing as a physical activity Develop hand eye coordination Explore drawing and speed Link drawing to wellbeing Explore drawing and colour mixing as a tactile activity Develop understanding of colour mixing on page Explore mark making and pattern Explore printmaking as a tool for mark making Explore ideas about “shape” and how we can make “shapes” Promote close looking followed by experimentation Exploration of colour mixing Promote individual and group ways of working Combine mark making, painting, colour and collage Develop fine motor skills Explore printmaking Develop understanding of negative and positive prints Promote a range of skills including mono printing, drawing, colour mixing, painting, stencils, collage and scale.
Year 1	Drawing	Begin to explore a variety of drawing materials including pencil, graphite, pen, chalk, soft pastel, wax and charcoal Explore mark making to start to build mark-making vocabulary Undertake projects which explore observational drawing
	Painting and collage	Recognise primary colours and use an experiential approach to simple colour mixing Benefit from experiences learnt through drawing and apply these skills to painting and collage Enjoy discovering the interplay between materials
	Print Making	Explore simple printmaking Search out found objects to be used as tools to press into plasticine to create texture and to understand notions of positive and negative Explore pattern, line, shape and texture.
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Explore, discover and invent ways for 2d to transform into 3d sculpture Explore modelling materials such as Modroc, clay and plasticine Use basic tools to help deconstruct (scissors) and then construct (glue sticks).
Year 2	Drawing	Develop mark-making skills through experimentation with various drawing media: pencil, graphite, chalk, soft pastel, wax and charcoal Continue to familiarize with sketchbook / drawing exercises Explore a variety of drawing starting points (stimuli), including close looking via observation from primary & secondary source material, drawing from memory and imagination
	Painting and collage	Use drawings as basis for collage Continue to mix colours experientially Revisit colour mixing and understand relationships of primary and secondary colours Explore painting on different surfaces, such as fabric and different scales Use new colour mixing knowledge and transfer it to other media, e.g. soft pastel
	Print Making	Explore simple mono printing techniques using carbon paper, using observational drawing skills and mark making skills
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Explore how 2d can become 3d though “design through making” Cut simple shapes from card and use them to construct architectural forms. Use digital media (film and still photos) to create records of models made
Year 3	Drawing	Practice observational drawing from the figure, exploring careful looking, intention, seeing big shapes, drawing with gesture, and quick sketching Using observational drawing as a starting point, fed by imagination, design typography Continue to familiarize with sketchbook / drawing exercises Make larger scale drawing from observation and imagination
	Painting and collage	Explore painting on new surfaces using colour as decoration Apply and build upon colour mixing and mark-making skills previously learnt, thinking about how certain colour ranges/combinations affect the outcome
	Print Making	Explore a simple clay technique such as making slab pieces, and decorate them relief patterns based upon observational drawing skills
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Explore how combinations of materials such as wire, paper, fabric, string, card can be transformed into sculpture Make an armature from paper and tape and use as the basis to explore modelling with Modroc to make sculpture
Year 4	Drawing	Continue to familiarize with sketchbook / drawing exercises Use growing technical skill and knowledge of different drawing materials, combined with increasing confidence in making a creative response to a wide range of stimuli explore more experimental drawing, following child’s own interests/affinities Layering of media, mixing of drawing media
	Painting and collage	Combine artforms such as collage, painting and printmaking in mixed media projects
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Work with a modelling material (clay or plasticine) to create quick 3d figurative sketches from life or imagination Construct with a variety of materials (wool, string, twigs, found objects, paper etc.) exploring how to bring different media together, both technically and visually Develop design through making skills and collaborative working skills through fashion design. Explore paper and card manipulation skills to build 3d forms.
Year 5	Drawing	Continue with the key drawing exercises Explore the relationship of line, form and colour. Follow a series of guided activities which each offer pupils an opportunity to make their own individual creative response. Explore scaling up drawings, bringing in all mark-making skills previously learnt, and using technique to provide opportunity to transform original
	Painting and collage	Paint on new surfaces (e.g. stone, fabric, walls, floors and work collaboratively to produce images in new contexts Combine and construct with a variety of materials, including modelling and paint
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Explore sculptural ideas of balance Explore relationship between sculpture and design through a sketchbook project
Year 6	Drawing	Continue with the key drawing exercises Revisit still life. Develop drawing skills using observational drawing Explore drawing and mark making on new surfaces, e.g. clay, linking to genres such as portraiture or landscape, Explore sequential drawing and narrative e.g. manga and graphic novels, possibly linking into develop into set design
	Painting and collage	Develop clay (and drawing) skills by creating pinch pots based upon still life observation
	Print Making	Explore geometric design/pattern / structure and create this through printing in a variety of ways
	Sculpture/ 3D design	Explore transformation of materials following own journey to produce an object which conveys personality of maker/designer