Art Knowledge and Skills Progression

Art Knowledge and Skills Progression Year Lesson Ideas/ Drawing Painting Printing Textiles 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, felt 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/textile 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 paper. 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 specifically oil painting. They printing fabric) they create a 3D considered Gakonga – ‘figures’ pastel and chalk will be taught techniques when hanging mobile choices when African sunset collage (Gakonga/ silhouette) pastel-this will the names of first taught at studying from 2D objects. selecting Decorated African coil pots. help them the primary EYFS. African This study will media to use Adire 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 Art – China: and be when to select plaiting, creating a images using 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 frieze 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.

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