Redhill Curriculum: Art Overview

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

EYFS                      

• Primary colours - exploring mixing different colours. 
• Choosing particular colours  for a purpose.
• Sketching - Self portraits
• Clay - divas (Diwali)
• Saying what we like about our and others’ artwork.
• Work of other artists - Pablo Picasso

• Colours - exploring making shades of different colours.
• Safely using and exploring a variety of materials, tools and techniques.
• Experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function
• Comparing two or more pieces of art and explain which one they prefer and why.
• Work of other artists - Monet 

• Collage
• Developing own ideas by selecting materials and processes that interest them
• Make decisions about how media and materials can be combined and changed
• Evaluating our own work and explaining could be changed next time.
• Work of other artists -  Andy Goldsworthy and Eric Carle

Year 1

• Sketching - portraits 
• Collage - using materials to create new shapes
• Work of other artists - Van Gogh - portraits

• Painting - primary colours, different brushes and tools and different scales.
• Sculpture - Clay - pinch pots
• Printing - using printing blocks and natural materials.

• Sketching - landscapes
• Work of other artists - Van Gogh - landscapes
• Textiles - keyrings

Year 2

• Printing - repeated patterns and stencils. 
• Sketching - self-portraits using all the main facial features and to show emotions.

• Sculpture - Coil pots, creating slabs and slab Terracota soldiers.
• Collage - using manmade and natural materials to create an image.
• Work of other artists - Andy Goldsworthy. 

• Painting - mixing primary colours to make secondary colours and different types of brush strokes. 
• Textiles - using running stitch to make puppets.

Year 3

• Sketching - self-portraits (using the correct proportions) 
• Different types of pencils for different uses
• Printing - impressed printing, printing blocks and mono-printing

• Painting - different ways that paint can be applied to paper
• Work of other artists - Joseph Wright
• Textiles - bookmarks (tye-dye and stitching)

• Sculpture - Clay - why slip is important and using slip to combine two pinch pots to make a sphere. 
• Collage - Mosaics - tessellating patterns, use of colour and materials for effect. 
• Work of other artists - Gaudi

Year 4

• Sketching - drawing bodies and limbs with accurate proportions and using different grades of pencils to make different marks.
• Sculpture - Clay - different types of clay for different purposes and using clay to make Viking artefacts. 

• Painting - mixing paints to make the exact colour needed and using colours to reflect mood. 
• Collage - what a montage is and overlapping different parts of a collage for effect, either to create layers or to change colour. 

• Printing - creating prints using more than one colour and overlapping and layering prints for effect.
• Textiles - batik and wax resist techniques for adding more precise designs and decorations to textiles and adding cross-stitch for decorative stitching.

Year 5

• Sketching - drawing body shapes using perspective and shadow to create depth. 
• Collage - Combining printing backgrounds with a range of materials to produce a collage.
• Work of other artists - Frieda Kahlo, Kurt Schwitters and Dolan Geiman. 

• Textiles - Printing onto fabric and embellishing with decorations. 
• Painting - Exploring different types of paint (watercolours, acryllics and oil). 
• Work of other artists - impressionist art - Monet.

• Sculpture - Clay - creating functional pottery with handles, lips and stands. 
• Printing - Hapazome printing (using natural resources to create prints).

Year 6

• Sketching - showing depth and movement through printing. 
• Sculpture - Clay - Using slip and score to join slabs to make WW2 monuments 
• Work of other artists - Henry Moore

• Printing - Linocut printing and how prints can be embellished and accentuated using other materials using e.g. collage, paint washes 
• Collage - Adding collage to a painted background to create landscapes 
• Work of other artists - Stanley Donwood

• Textiles - creating cushions using invisible stitches to join pieces of fabric together.
• Painting - abstract paintings and complementary and contrasting colours. 
• Work of other artists - Matisse