Holy Trinity Catholic School Art Curriculum
National Curriculum – Key Stage 1
National Curriculum – Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught:
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to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
EYFS
Year 1
Year 2
Use a range of media to make marks.
Experiment with a range of media: pencils, crayons, pastels, charcoal, chalks
Can use drawing tools with increased control to investigate marks and represent observations, memories with purpose and intention
Use and begin to control and range of media. Draw on different surfaces and in different scales
Name, match and draw lines and marks from observation
Produce lines of different thickness and tone using pencil
Draw on different surfaces with a range of media
Experiment with chalk to create pictures
Working from memory and imagination use line to create patterns and represent objects seen,
Can draw carefully in line from observation, recording shape and positioning all marks and features with some care Experiment tone by drawing light and dark lines, light and dark patterns and light and dark shapes – using different grades of pencils as well as different amounts of pressure
Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design. Pupils should be taught: • •
to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials, for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay about great artists, architects and designers in history.
Drawing Year 3 Make marks and lines with a wide range of drawing implements – charcoal, pastel, chalk, pencil Experiment with ways in which surface detail can be added to drawings
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Begin to show in their drawings that objects have a third dimension
Work from a range of sources including observation and photographs
sources including observation and photographs
Can use different grades of pencils and other drawing implements to achieve variation in tone
Work in a sustained and independent way to create drawings
Experiment with different grades of pencil to create lines and marks
Applies tone to a drawing in a simple way
Experiment with different grades of pencils to draw
Experiment with different shading techniques of
Develop lose observational skills using view finders Begin to use simple perspective in their work using a single focal point and horizon Begin to show an awareness of
Work in a sustained and independent way to create detailed drawings Develop close observational skills using a variety of view finders Use different techniques for different purposes e.g. shading, hatching etc Begin to develop an awareness of scale and proportion in their drawings of landscapes