Art & Design

Curriculum Overview

All children – regardless of gender, starting point or background – will have the opportunity to engage with a high-quality art and design education. They will be equipped with the knowledge, skills and vocabulary to experiment, invent and create a range of art techniques including colour, texture, shape, line, space, form and pattern.

Children will learn about a range of artists, craft makers, architects and designers and have opportunities to design and create a broad range of artwork. We intend to inspire a sense of enjoyment and curiosity about art and design.

Year 1

Autumn Term 2
3D Sculpture (Natural Resources – Andy Goldsworthy)


Summer Term 1
Mixed Media -Painting & Collage (Fish)


Summer Term 2
Sketching (Plants)


Year 2

Autumn Term 1
Batik


Spring Term 1
Painting (Water Lily Pond – Claude Monet)


Summer Term 1
3D Sculpture (Water Sculpture – Ailsa Nicholson)


Year 3

Autumn Term 1
Sketching


Spring Term 2
3D Sculpture (Clay Egyptian Canopic Jars or Scarab Beetles)


Summer Term 1
Collage (Water – Eileen Downs)


Year 4

Autumn Term 1
3D Sculpture (Plastic Pollution)


Spring Term 2
Sketching (Rainforests – Oenone Hammersley)


Summer Term 1
Painting (Seascapes – Georges Seurat)


Year 5

Autumn Term 2
Painting/Collage (Abstract Space – Peter Thorpe)


Spring Term 2
3D Sculpture – Clay Tiles
(Ceramics – Laura Carlin)


Summer Term 1
Printing (Saxon Patterns)


Year 6

Spring Term 1
Sketching (Perspective – Stephen Wiltshire)


Spring Term 2
Painting (Seascapes – Joseph Turner)


Summer Term 2
Printing (Pop Art – Andy Warhol)