Art Knowledge and Skills Progression

Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary EYFS Lesson Ideas Pupils will learn Pupils will Pupils will Pupils will Pupils will learn Pupils will to use different make a variety learn how to learn how how to have access to Van Gogh’s sunflowers types of dry of marks using make to select manipulate a variety of First hand observation - drawing media e.g. the paint rubbings and malleable collage Van Gogh’s sunflowers chalk, tips, brush. using natural combine materials in materials and Van Gogh-finger printing pencils. Pupils will be materials e.g. textiles different ways be

exploring brush strokes Pupils will learn able to form leaves. Pupils according (kneading/rolling). encouraged to how to make a shapes and will be to colour, Pupils will be use a mixture Kandinsky ‘concentric circle in variety of different line encouraged pattern encouraged to together squares’ differentiated patterns using to explore and texture make simple 3D within their Painting marks from this medium. the tactile as part of structures and pictures. Press prints lines, dots and Pupil will be and physical their study models to help Pupils will Textural pictures/collage – string shapes. encouraged to nature of of with storytelling experiment pictures/ pictures Pupils will be use a range of printing- Kandinsky’s or from their with collage able to talk different tools creating and piece imagination. They materials Andy Goldsworthy ‘natural about their to bring developing ‘concentric will build upon when sculptures’ marks and give coloured marks their circles in these taught skills studying Natural material gathering clear meaning onto . awareness of squares’. at year 1 and year Kandinsky Building of natural sculptures to them. Pupils will shape and This unit 3 when making using within Forest learning Pupils will be experiment form. sits pots. materials encouraged to with primary Pupils will be alongside Pupils will link creatively and Vocabulary use drawings to colours and encouraged and can be their skills into exploring tell a story. discuss what to use a combined Forest learning their use Paint, brush, pencil, coloured Pupils will be happens when range of with the where they will through their pencil, chalk, crayons, charcoal, encouraged to these are objects as skills design and build properties of pastels, draw, marks, line, circle, begin to form mixed. Pupils tools to introduced natural sculptures texture and

up, down, round, wet, dry, finger accurate will build upon explore in collage for their skills to colour. This paint, print, mix, clay, plasticine, drawings of this printing. lessons. be more refined will be built mould, push, roll, squeeze, people and understanding Printing will Pupils will in Year 1. upon through change, print, wood, leaves, animals. at year 1 and be linked to learn a the Year 1 objects, rubbings, smooth, rough, As part of a throughout KS1 nursery simple study of shiny, bumpy, natural, materials, study of Van and KS2. rhymes and weave African collage. Gogh’s Pupils will stories of the technique. sunsets. Colours: red, blue, yellow, green, sunflowers the examine the week e.g. Pupils will be purple, brown, black, orange, pupils will learn work of Van Humpty able to talk white, pink. how use a range Gogh and Dumpty’s about the of media to compare the wall and different record their physical use of Jack’s textures of ideas from brush strokes beanstalk the materials observation, compared to feeding and they are using source material finger marks. progressing whilst and Pupils will into their collaging. imagination. evaluate the study of both They will experience Van Gogh explore line, talking about and marks and steps they have Kandinsky. texture that dry taken and the These skills media can similarities and will be produce. difference of developed in their own year 1 where sunflowers their compared to knowledge of Van Gogh’s. press- printing will be refined.

KS1 In addition to the knowledge and skills taught across KS1 the pupils will have the opportunity to: - Develop their control and use of a pencil when drawing

- Record and explore ideas from first hand observations - Describe the similarities and differences between different practices and disciplines and making links to their own work Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 1 Lesson Ideas At year 1 pupils Pupils will learn Pupils will Pupils will Pupils will find out Pupils will will be taught to how to select extend and learn how about the artist make experiment with the correct size use the to change Andy thoughtful Art - Africa: dry media brush when exploratory and modify Goldsworthy as and Gakonga – ‘figures’ specifically oil painting. They printing fabric) they create a 3D considered pastel and chalk will be taught techniques when hanging mobile choices when African sunset collage (Gakonga/ pastel-this will the names of first taught at studying from 2D objects. selecting silhouette) Decorated African coil pots. help them the primary EYFS. African This study will media to use cloth - Repeated print-wax prepare for the colours and Simple press textiles and expand upon the in collage cloth tonal properties have recall of printing will making year 1 exploration based on their of charcoal this. They will be adire cloth of printing growing Science - Plants: taught in year 2. be taught how introduced (paste understanding Goldsworthy - Look at Year 1 pupils to create creating relief and Pupils will learn of colour and Goldsworthy sculptures will learn about primary shades repeated home- simple techniques texture first Leaf rubbings the tonal by adding black patterns made dyes) of manipulating introduced at Bark rubbings qualities of to a pure hue. inspired by clay in order to EYFS and Hanging mobiles (wind-catchers) these two They will learn African wax create decorated extended at incorporating leaf prints and media how to mix prints. This African tribal pots year 4. They natural materials investigating primary tones will be an exploring and will create History topic: Castles/Medieval how to create by adding grey important extending skills class and Paul Klee: Castle and Sun dark and light to a pure hue. starting point learned at EYFS. individual marks lines and This key for the more They will build collages as Vocabulary patterns knowledge is sophisticated upon these skills part of their in through first taught forms of at year 3 when depth study Paint, brush, pencil, draw, wet, experimentation here and will printing constructing pots of African art. dry, mix, finger paint, colour, and be extended taught at as part of their And will be light, dark, observation. and built upon year 3, 4 and study of the Stone extended in 5. This will Age term 2 when

Straight, wavy, curved, zig-zag, Pupils at year 1 across KS1 and also extend they create a copying, rubbing, match, print, will further KS2 the textiles class collage sponge, roller, ink, modelling, investigate work at year of Paul Klee’s rolling, clay, tile, pot, tools, fold, texture through 1 and the piece Castles crumple, tear, rubbings study of adire and Sun Pastel, chalk, collage, texture, (introduced at cloths. mixing media smudging, primary colour, stencil, EYFS) as part of to explore printing block, press print, their study of their kneading, overlap Andy understanding Goldsworthy of colour and and their shape. science study of seasonal changes

Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 2 Lesson Ideas Pupils will Building on the N/A At year 2 At year 2 pupils Pupils at year Maths links – shape extend their work first pupils will will change the 2 will learn Shape Matisse inspired Jazz pictures – knowledge of taught at year use structure of how to create arranging shape dry media 1-year 2 pupil techniques malleable imagined and taught at year 1 will recognise such as materials when observed and be when to select plaiting, creating a images using Art – China: Wu Guanzhang – Fauvism - introduced to broad brushes fraying and textured tile as collage as part

landscapes charcoal for the and finer fringing to part of their study of their study Cherry Blossom /Willow Pattern– first time. brushes for change and of Charles Rennie of Matisse Brusho+Paint They will draw detailed work modify Mackintosh They (Jazz Decorated lampshades (balloon lines and marks (Cherry threads will learn to use collection) lamps) lanterns and bunting identifying the Blossom and and fabrics leatherhard clay They will effectiveness of Willow Pattern) achieving and use tools collect, sort, History Topic: The Victorians charcoal in They will be decorative which will be built name and achieving a taught how to effects as upon at year 5 match colours

Decorated tiles to create a greater tonal care for part of when they appropriate –(Clay tiles + clay tools exploring range than brushes their study construct the for an image Charles Rennie Mackintosh and pencil. They will properly of Chinese heads of Rapa Nui Expanding the Glasgow School combine this At year 2 pupils culture and upon their awareness of will learn about the study of Science – Living things and their line with the use different paint Chinese shape in Y2 habitats: of colour when types and their New Year. drawing exploring Wu properties This will be lessons they Guanzhang. specifically: developed will create Vocabulary They will powder, poster at year 4 and arrange observe and and when shapes Straight, wavy, curved, zig-zag, invent shape watercolour stitching appropriately. copying, rubbing, match, referring to the paints, ink and techniques This acquired modelling, rolling, clay, tile, pot, work of Matisse brusho are first knowledge tools, fold, crumple, tear, and begin to They will build introduced. will be decorate, smooth, rough, understand the upon the developed charcoal, chalk, control, surfaces, term ‘negative colour mixing and built powder paint, threads and space’ of shades and upon at year 4 fabrics, knotting, fraying, fringing, In term 2 and as tones by in their study pulling threads, twisting, plaiting, part of their adding back of Picasso and tools, texture, study of the and grey using Cubism. observations, invent, major Victorians the the paints brush, fine brush, layering, tone, children can specified first primary shade, primary tone, extend their taught at year cords understanding 1. This will be secondary colour of shape and extended at line in a st year 3 with their study of tints. This will form the basis of their study of

Wu Guanzhang (Fauvism) and draw upon their knowledge of line taught in drawing lessons.

Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 3 Lesson Ideas At year 3 the At year 3 the Pupils will Pupil will use pupils will be pupils will learn build upon papier Mache to Painting taught about greater control their produce simple Technique Geography and Art – Sheffield: the grades of when painting. knowledge of 3D models as part Control when painting pencil and They will build printing of their study of experiment with upon the work taught at Sheffield artist Pete McKee – blocking in these to achieve of year 2 in year 1. They Pete McKee’s Wilkinson – Oils, dry colour, drypoint variations in selecting will learn penguins. This 3D

Architectural Arches-Ruskin – tone. Through brushes for how to rendering of a 2D colour wash their study of smaller and create design will build Ruskin’s bigger scale printing upon the 2 colour prints – architectural studies. They blocks using knowledge Pete McKee (Penguin). J sketches they will be taught an impressed acquired during Wilkinson (Cooling Towers) will select soft how to ‘block method. the Year 1 study dry media and in’ when They will of Andy Paper Mache penguins compare this painting- build up their Goldsworthy (3D with the use of keeping within skill set and forms constructed History – Stone Age: hard lines to lines and where learn how to from 2D shapes). Clay skills - Burnished pottery create a fine to use colour use two In Term 1 year 3 Paleolithic art & Caves of Lascaux graphic style washes for a colour pupils will learn softer effect. overlays as how to join clay

Ongoing: Sketchbook typical of McKee These part of their adequately when Grades of pencil and Wilkinson. techniques will study of creating Knowledge of be part of their Sheffield burnished pots Vocabulary soft dry media study of Artists Pete with handles as will be Sheffield artists McKee and part of their study Charcoal, chalk, control, surfaces, developed at Ruskin (colour Jonathon of pre-history. poster paint, powder paint, greater depth wash) and Wilkinson. This will build threads and fabrics, knotting, when exploring McKee upon the fraying, fringing, pulling threads, Paleolithic art (blocking in) techniques taught twisting, plaiting, tools, texture, and the cave The children at EYFS and year pattern, paintings of will continue to 1. observation, imagination, detail, Lascaux practice Grades of pencil, tone, blocking in painting with colour, colour wash, secondary the media colours, tints, shades introduced at Grades of pencil, year 2. They Blocking in colour versus colour will build upon blocking, the colour 2B, 4B, 6B, HB, 2H, 4H, 6H pencils mixing of shades and tones by adding back and grey first taught at year 1 and 2 and extend into the mixing of tints by adding white to pure hues. They will learn how use a limited palette

through colour mixing. They will have a solid understanding of which primary colours make secondary colours Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 4 Lesson Ideas Pupils will be At year 4 the N/A Building Building upon Pupils will taught how to pupils will be upon their techniques taught extend the Texture History – Greeks + Romans: use sketchbooks introduced to knowledge at year 3-pupils learning they Stitching/cutting skills: Roman to record visual some new of will create first acquired Coin purses information paint types decorative abstract heads in years 1 and from different including techniques based on the year 2 by

Art – Spain sources. They acrylic, taught in portrait of Dora experimenting Initially look at Cezanne – shape will select from gouache and year 2, Marr extending with a range their existing gesso. Pupils year 4 their of collage Experiment with paint types to knowledge of will experiment pupils will understanding of techniques create texture dry media with a range of develop modelling, form such as experimenting paint types to their skills and technique tearing, Picasso - with lines and create textural in stitching and materials. overlapping The Death of the Toreador marks to create effects. At year cutting and The knowledge and layering Still Life with Bull’s Head texture and 4 pupils will be joining. acquired about to create Portrait of Marie Therese surface detail. able to creating a base images and Portrait of Dora Maar At year 3 the evaluate the will feed into the represent Sculpture – Picasso pupils will have painterly armatures textures-this heads/ceramics a knowledge of impact of each created at year 6 will include See grades of pencil. type of paint. use of digital

They will use Pupils will and sculptures at media and Collage techniques – link to their ever explore year 5 extend their Picasso expanding impasto- knowledge of knowledge to methods of Cubism Science – Environmental change understand thickening specifically objects have a paint. (eg Picasso and third dimension Beeswax) they Klee. Ongoing: Sketchbook and use tone will use this Line marks to create texture effectively in thickened paint The creating 3D to create understanding Vocabulary shape. They will textural effects of abstract study Cezanne mimicking the forms will Observation, imagination, detail, in particular his work of Picasso feed into the Grades of pencil, tone, colour ‘still-life’ and and Cezanne Year 5 & 6 block, colour wash, secondary begin to use sculpture colours, tints, shade, collage, their knowledge study 2B, 4B, 6B, HB, 2H, 4H, 6H pencils of cylinder Charcoal, texture, sphere and cone Pupils at year 4 Form, shape to construct all will be now be third dimension pattern still life studies. confident in hue This the language of gouache/acrylic/oil/ tempera understanding colour of a third including dimension will primary, be extended by secondary, year 5 and 6 hue, shade, when drawing tone and tint perspective having being taught consistently since EYFS.

Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 5 Lesson Ideas At year 5 the At year 5 pupils Building on N/A As part of their N/A Look at ‘Edvard Munch The pupils will be will develop a knowledge study of South Scream’ – create similar using introduced to painting from a acquired at America- year 5 colour mixing / blending viewfinders to drawing. year 3 the pupils will further techniques with coloured pencils- begin to work At year 3 pupils year 5 pupils develop their they will then contrast this with closely from are taught will create control and use of

the Monet’s study of Waterloo observation. At about printing tools when Bridge looking at the impact of year 5 they will secondary blocks by carving replica colour on mood and atmosphere. create a colours-this simplifying heads from Rapa detailed understanding an initial Nui (Easter Brazil drawing. They of colour will sketch book Island). This builds Christ the will be taught now be idea. They upon good and Redeemer/Favelas/Rapa Nui how to use a extended into a will then safe use of tools Foreground/middle sketchbook to new language develop this introduced at year ground/background collect and of into a lino cut 2. Develop a painting from a develop ideas complementary ‘impressed’ drawing-create multiple copies understanding and contrasting method, changing the colour to create the process colours creating atmosphere as learned in the artists go prints with study of Monet through before With this three drawing or knowledge the overlays. This Easter Island painting. year 5 pupils could be part Pop art style heads Simon Kent At year 5 the will be taught of a study of visiting sculptor pupils will be how to mix and the Bayeux Rapa Nui – breezeblock sculpture able to use the match colours tapestry using tools techniques to create showing the taught at EYFS- atmosphere Viking Anglo Saxons and Vikings Y4 and begin to and light invasion or Printing with three overlays- explore colour effects. The Book of recreating sections of the Bayeux mixing and Exploring the Kells

tapestry/ using Illuminated blending work of Monet illuminated Scripts as sources of inspiration techniques with and Munch will manuscript coloured give the pupils Ongoing: Sketchbook to develop pencils. This will the visual They will ideas be built upon at vocabulary then work year 6 they need to into prints Vocabulary Year 5 teachers mix a palette of with a range will teach warm and cold of media e.g. 2B, 4B, 6B, HB, 2H, 4H, 6H pencils composition, colours to pens, colour Charcoal, texture, scale and create pens and Form, shape proportion in atmosphere. paints and third dimension, pattern their paintings This knowledge evaluate the wet media/dry media, blending, e.g. foreground, will then be effectiveness. hatching (not cross hatching) middle ground applied in their Year 6 will atmosphere, shading, view finder and own work. extend this in foreground, middle ground, background. At their study of background, composition, focal year 6 pupils textiles and point, perspective, proportion will extend this screen work on to printing. perspective. Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles Sculpture Collage Group Vocabulary Year 6 Lesson Ideas The knowledge The knowledge N/A At year 6 Pupils at year 6 N/A taught at year 6 taught at year pupils will will build upon History - local area: repeats, 6 repeats, learn how modelling skills Local artists - Frink and Hepworth consolidates consolidates to taught from EYFS Sculpture and extends and extends experiment to year 5. Pupils skills taught at skills taught at with a will use armatures Mining and Victorian lan year 5 year 5’ range of to provide

Photos/digital images of local Pupils will Pupils will media to structures for

area – detailed drawings develop their develop a overlap more drawing skills painting from a and layer sophisticated

Art – Mexico: working from a drawing creating methods of Frida Kahlo – variety of creating interesting sculpting using Still life/composition sources imaginative colours and Elizabeth Frink including work from a textures and local sculptor Stippling + scumbling observation, variety of and effects Barbara Painting photographs sources using Hepworth as and digital including a screen inspiration when Science – Evolution: images. They study of Frida printing as creating Frida Perspective drawing will work in a Kahlo. a vehicle. Kahlo busts sustained and This will Vocabulary independent feed into way to create a their study Form, shape detailed of Kahlo, third dimension, pattern, drawing using Frink and wet media/dry media, blending, viewfinders as the hatching atmosphere, shading, introduced at Yorkshire view finder,foreground, middle year 5 artist ground, background, contrast, At year 6 the Hepworth complement, pupils will and link to composition, focal point, extend their their study perspective, proportion, cross range of of hatching, scumbling, stippling, blending portraiture tone, portrait, palette, maquette techniques to and include more armature sophisticated in techniques such sculpture as stippling and scumbling. Using wet and dry media such as aquarelle. This will be introduced in a series of drawings using mining culture as an inspiration. At year 6 the pupils will now begin to develop their own style using tonal contrast and mixed media –this will build upon and extend the year 4 study of Cezanne and still life.

At year 6 the pupils can use the skills of perspective and composition taught at year 4 and year 5 to use simple perspective in their work using a single focal point and horizon. They will also be able to evaluate famous paintings using the language of composition, perspective etc Their study of Jonathon Wilkinson will build directly on year 3’s study of the Tinsley Cooling Towers