Mellor St Mary CE Primary School
Learning Together
Art Curriculum
EYFS Foundation Stage Development Matters
EYFS | Expressive Art and Design Development Matters | Examples: |
3-4 year olds will learn to: | Take part in simple pretend play, using an object to represent something else even thought they are not similar. | Use natural resources to represent common items the children are familiar with in the home. |
Make imaginative and complex small worlds with blocks and constructions kits. | Provide lots of flexible and open ended resources for imaginative play | |
Explore different materials freely, in order to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make. | Explore on different scales and surfaces large and small, natural and manmade | |
Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them. | Listen, understand and support the development of their ideas | |
Join different materials and explore different textures. | Use crafts people and artists as role models and offer a range of ideas for children to draw on. | |
Create closed shapes with continuous lines and begin to use these shapes to represent objects. | Develop drawing and model making opportunities and encourage own creative ideas and talk about meaning and purpose of their creations. | |
Draw with increasing complexity and detail such as representing a face with a circle and including details. | Encourage to draw from imagination and observation. | |
Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises | Help children to add details to their drawings, select interesting objects to draw, pointing out key features. | |
Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings like happiness, sadness, fear etc | Talk about different colours and how to mix them to create new colours. | |
Explore colour and colour mixing | Look at the work of artists across times and cultures. Notice similarities and differences between their own work and that of others, focusing on colour, line, movement, etc. | |
Reception children will learn to: | Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings. | Develop colour missing techniques to enable them to match the colours they seen and want to represent. |
Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them. | Provide opportunities to work together to develop and realise creative ideas. | |
Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills. | Use a variety of materials to construct with, discuss what they want to make and what problems they might face as well as solutions. Help them to reflect on their original aim. Model different joining techniques and how to use different joining resources and tools. | |
Notice features in the natural world. | Define colours, shapes, texture and smells in their own words as part of discussions. | |
Be inspired by the work of others | Visit galleries and museums to generate inspiration and conversation about art and artists. |
Mixed Classes themes:
As a school we operate mixed class teaching for Art in all year groups. Our long term plans are divided into cycles:
KS1 has a 2 year cycle : KS2 (Y3/4/5) have a 3 year cycle and KS2 (Y6) has a 1 year cycle.
All units are 5 lessons long which can be supplemented with cross curricular art work as well as time for revisiting and practising substantial concepts.
Cycle A | Autumn | Spring | Summer |
EYFS | Drawing – Marvellous marks Linked to Big Question: Special places
| Painting and mixed media Paint my world Linked to Big Question: weather | Craft and design Let’s get crafty Linked to Big Question: Seaside
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KS1 | Sculpture and 3D Clay houses Y2 Linked to Big Question: Special places
Additional Unit if needed Craft and Design Woven wonders | Painting and mixed media Y2 Life in colour Linked to Big Question: weather
| Drawing Y2 Tell a story Linked to Big Question: Seaside
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Year 3-5 | Craft and Design Y3 Ancient Egyptian Scrolls Linked to Big Question: Water | Drawing Y5 I need space Linked to Big Question: Spaced | Drawing Y3 Growing Artists or Painting and mixed media Y5 Portraits Linked to Big Question: Britain |
Year 6 | Drawing Y6 Make my voice heard or Craft and design Photo opportunity Linked to Big Question: Who are we? | Painting and mixed media Y6 Artist study Linked to Big Question: Crime and punishment | Sculpture and 3D Y6 Making memories Linked to Big Question: Vikings
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Cycle B | Autumn | Spring | Summer |
EYFS | Drawing – Marvellous marks Linked to Big Question: Fit and healthy
| Sculpture and 3D Creation station Linked to Big Question: Great Fire of London | Craft and design Let’s get crafty Linked to Big Question: Plants around the world |
– KS1 | Drawing Y1 Make your mark Linked to Big Question: Fit and healthy | Printing and mixed media Colour splash Y1 Linked to Big Question: Great Fire of London | Sculpture and 3D Y1 Paper play Linked to Big Question: Plants around the world |
Year 3-5 | Craft and Design Y4 Fabric of Nature Linked to Big Question: Rainforests | Drawings Y4 Power prints Linked to Big Question: Forces | Sculpture and 3D Y5 Interactive Installation or Craft and Design Y5 Architecture Linked to Big Question: Romans |
Cycle C | Autumn | Spring | Summer |
Year 3-5 | Painting and mixed media Y3 Prehistoric Painting Linked to Big Question: Rocks
| Painting and mixed media Y4 Light and dark Linked to Big Question: Diseases | Sculpture and 3D Y3 Abstract shape and space Linked to Big Question: Greeks
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