Field End Junior School

SKILL

YEAR 3

YEAR 4

YEAR 5

YEAR 6

Drawing

• Experiment with different grades of pencil
  Experiment with other implements such as crayons, pastels, chalk, rubbers
• Plan, refine and alter their drawings as necessary.
• Use their sketchbook to collect and record visual information from different sources.
• Draw for a sustained period of time at their own level.
• Use different media to achieve variations in line, texture, tone, colour, shape and pattern.
   

• Make informed choices in drawing inc. paper and media.
• Alter and refine drawings and describe changes using art vocabulary.
• Use research to inspire drawings from memory and imagination.
• Explore relationships between line and tone, pattern and shape, line and texture.

• Use a variety of source material for their work.
• Work in a sustained and independent way from observation, experience and imagination.
• Use a sketchbook to develop ideas.
• Explore the potential properties of the visual elements, line, tone, pattern, texture, colour and shape.

• Demonstrate a wide variety of ways to make different marks with dry and wet media.
• Identify artists who have worked in a similar way to their own work.
• Develop ideas using different or mixed media, using a sketchbook.
• Manipulate and experiment with the elements of art: line, tone, pattern, texture, form, space, colour and shape.

Painting

• Learn and know the primary colours.
  Use a developed colour vocabulary.
• Experiment with different effects and textures inc. blocking in colour, washes, thickened paint etc.
  Work confidently on a range of scales e.g. thin brush on small picture etc.

· Make and match colours with increasing accuracy.

· Demonstrate a secure knowledge about primary and secondary,
· Use more specific colour language e.g. tint, tone, shade
· Choose and consider paints and implements appropriately
· Plan and create different effects and textures with paint according to what they need for the task.
· Show increasing independence and creativity with the painting process.

· Demonstrate a secure knowledge about primary and secondary, warm and cold, complementary and contrasting colours.
· Work on preliminary studies to test media and materials.
· Create imaginative work from a variety of sources.
 

· Create shades and tints using black and white.
· Choose appropriate paint, paper and implements to adapt and extend their work.
· Carry out preliminary studies, test media and materials and mix appropriate colours.
· Work from a variety of sources, inc. those researched independently.
· Show an awareness of how paintings are created (composition).

Printing

· Print using a variety of materials and techniques including layering. · Talk about the processes used to produce a simple print.
· to explore pattern and shape, creating designs for printing.

· Research, create and refine a print using a variety of techniques.
· Select broadly the kinds of material to print with in order to get the effect they want
 

· Explain a few techniques, inc’ the use of poly-blocks.
· Choose the printing method appropriate to task.
· Build up layers and colours/textures.
· Organise their work in terms of pattern, repetition, symmetry or random printing styles.
· Choose inks and overlay colours.

· Describe varied techniques.
· Be familiar with layering prints.
· Be confident with printing on paper and other materials
· Alter and modify work.
· Work relatively independently.

Textiles/collage

· Name the tools and materials they have used.
· Develop skills in cutting and joining.
· Experiment with a range of media e.g. overlapping, layering etc.

· Use a variety of techniques, inc. printing, dying, quilting, weaving,
· Match the tool to the material.
· Combine skills more readily.
· Choose collage or textiles as a means of extending work already achieved.
· Refine and alter ideas and explain choices using an art vocabulary.
· Collect visual information from a variety of sources, describing with vocabulary based on the visual and tactile elements.

· Extend their work within a specified technique.
· Use a range of media to create collage.
· Experiment using different materials

· Awareness of the potential of the uses of material.
· Use different techniques, colours and textures etc when designing and making pieces of work.
· To be expressive and analytical to adapt, extend and justify their work.

3D form

· Join clay adequately and work reasonably independently.
· Construct a simple clay base for extending and modelling other shapes.
· Cut and join clay safely and effectively.
· Plan, design and make models.

· Make informed choices about the 3D technique chosen.
· Show an understanding of shape, space and form.
· Plan, design, make and adapt models.
· Talk about their work understanding that it has been sculpted, modelled or constructed.
· Use a variety of materials.

· Describe the different qualities involved in modelling, sculpture and construction.
· Use recycled, natural and manmade materials to create sculpture.
· Plan a sculpture through drawing and other preparatory work.

· Develop skills in using clay inc. slabs, coils, slips, etc.
· Make a mould and use plaster safely.
· Create sculpture and constructions with increasing independence.