Art

Year group	Autumn1	Autumn 2	Spring 1	Spring 2	Summer 1	Summer 2
Nursery	introduction to primary colours manipulating dough Exploring line and shape	folding, sticking and tearing - introduction to collage.	mixing paint using brushes, toothbrushes to paint night sky paintings.	Drawing skills: lines, zig, zags, spirals, straight lines and curvy lines.	Clay skills	Creating patterns
Reception	Drawing human form. Developing painting skills	Digital art and print making	Refining drawing skills Revision of colour mixing Clay skills	Patterns. Print making.	Collage work	making models
Year 1	Mix it - basic colour theory. Use of colour in artwork.	Fabulous features and funny faces Developing collage	Rain and Sunrays Collagraph printing using motifs.		Streetview Relief and mural making, Artist study: James Rizzi
Year 2	Exploring colour Hues, colour in art work. Block printing.		Still life Development of sketching skills. Colour composition, subject matter and texture.		Flower head Sculptural forms. Yayoi Kusama study.
Year 3	Contrast and complement Colour families	Prehistoric pots Bell Beaker pottery. Extending clay skills.	Ammonite Printmaking and clay sculpture. Development of drawing techniques.		Beautiful Botanicals Genre of botanical art. Sketches and colour studies. Watercolour.
Year 4	Warm and cool colours Water colour techniques, colour theory development Aboriginal art	Vista Landscapes. Atmospheric perspective.	Animal Drawing animals, exploring patterns and making a block print. Clay work - making a 3 D animal		Motifs in Islamic art
Year 5	Colour in landscapes tints, tones and shade.	Light, lines and shadows Picasso and Rembrandt study.	Mixed media Collage - paper and fabric collage. Mixed media art work		Expression Continuous line drawing and large scale drawing. Expressionism.
Year 6	Colour and Style Revision of expressionism, impressionism and Fauvism movements.	Distortion and Abstraction Artistic concepts of abstraction and distortion. Cubism, Orphism.	Inuit Art, craft and traditions of Inuit culture. Printing, sculpture Kenojauak Ashevak.		Trailblazers and Barrier Breakers Black artists research.	Bees, Butterflies and Beetles Nature and natural world drawing, sketching, painting and clay.

We value Art and Design as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. Art and Design provides children with the opportunity to develop and extend skills and knowledge, and an opportunity to express their individual interests, thoughts and ideas. Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. We want our children to use the local area as inspiration, to learn from other cultures and to respect diversity. We have carefully selected a wide range of artists, craft makers and designers for children to study. Children will develop their understanding of the visual language of art with effective teaching and considered sequences of lessons and experiences. Understanding of the visual elements of art and design will be developed by providing a curriculum which will enable children to reach their full potential. Implementation The skills and knowledge that the children will learn throughout each art topic are mapped across each year group, beginning in Early Years, and are progressive throughout the school.

Didcot Primary Academy

Art

Our art curriculum

Year 6 Inuit inspired lino cutting and printing - Spring 2025

Year 6 Developing Stencilling skills February 2022

Year 4 Developing line skills, inspired by Christa Rijneveld

Year 3 Further Developing printing skills with lino printing

Year 2 Still life sketching skills (Feb 22)

Year 1 - Collagraph printing