Alexandra Primary School Art Progression Document

The teaching and implementation of our art curriculum is underpinned by the 7 elements of art: line, shape, colour, value, form, texture and space. Children are taught to develop their skills through focused practical tasks and use them within drawing, painting, collage, sculpture, print, textiles and digital media.

Key skills

Year 1

Year 2

To develop ideas

Respond to ideas and starting points.

Explore ideas and collect visual information.

Explore different methods and materials as ideas develop.

• Introduced to sketchbooks.
• Use descriptive language to describe what they see.

• Continue use of sketchbooks
• Children to describe and handle objects before representing.
• Use descriptive language to describe what they see.
• Provide opportunities to evaluate their own and other’s work.

Drawing

Draw lines of different sizes and thickness.

Colour own work neatly following the lines.

Show pattern and texture by adding dots and lines.

Show different tones by using colour pencils.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Mark making using different media on different backgrounds.
• Use pencils to make a variety of marks (straight, wavy, jagged, smudgy, dots, circles etc.)
• Simple observational drawings of objects.

Suggested artists: Henry Rousseau

Karlee Rawkin

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Use a range of pencils, from hard to soft to produce different lines and marks (HB, 2B, 4B, 6B)
• Look at texture, form and depth through observational drawings of natural and manmade objects (feathers, tree bark, pine cones, teddies, spoons etc.)

Suggested artists: Adonna Khare, Mark Frith

Painting

Use thick and thin brushes.

Mix primary colours to make secondary.

Add white to colours to make tints and black to colours to make tones.

Create colour wheels.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Introduce primary colours (red, blue and yellow on a colour wheel)
• Experiment with mixing paint and water to produce paint.
• Produce thick and thin washes using paint.
• Experiment with different applicators of paint including different brush sizes, sponges, stamps.
• Control the amount of paint applied to the paper.

Suggested artists: Mondrian, Picasso

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Mixing primary colours to make both secondary and tertiary colours.
• Use brushes to create long and short strokes and to move paint in different directions.
• Select appropriate brush sizes.
• Produce a wash using large brushes and sponges.

Suggested artists: William Bradford, David McEown

Collage

Use a combination of materials that are cut, torn and glued.

Sort and arrange materials

Mix materials to create textures.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Selecting appropriate materials and colours to create an image.
• Combine collage with another art skill i.e. drawing.

Suggested artists: Andy Warhol

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Selecting appropriate materials and colours to create an image.
• Combine collage with another art skill i.e. drawing.
• Create own collaged material.

Suggested artists: Marc Hearld, Megan Coyle

Sculpture

Use a combination of shapes

Include lines and textures

Use rolled up paper, straws, paper, card and clay as materials.

Use techniques, such as rolling, cutting, moulding and carving.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Explore the qualities of a range of materials that can be manipulated into a 3d form i.e. clay, paper, foil, card, soft wire.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Group and individual representational model making using, dough, reclaimed materials, plastic coated wire, paper, clay, wood, paper mache etc. 

Print

Use repeating or overlapping shapes.

Mimic print from the environment- e.g. Wall papers.

Use objects to create prints, e.g. fruit, vegetables, sponges.

Press, roll, rub and stamp to make prints.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Create a simple abstract printing block using existing materials i.e. potato, sponge, lego brick etc.
• Explore using the block multiple times on a given media.

• Create simple printing blocks using string/ card/ Styrofoam/ Acetate.
• Use a variety of found objects/ blocks to print patterns in straight lines, rows and irregular patterns.
• Begin to experiment with rotating to produce pattern.

Textiles

Use weaving to create a pattern.

Join materials using glue and / or a stitch.

Use plaiting

Uses dip dye techniques.

• Key skills & Suggested activities
• Join two pieces of material. Using running stitch.
• Change the appearance of material by using a technique such as dip dye or fabric pens.

• Simple tapestry - weaving on a frame to create an abstract pattern.
• Change the appearance of material by using at least two techniques i.e. colour and stitch.

Digital Media

Use a wide range of tools to create different textures, lines, tones, colours and shades.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Begin to identify that some art can be produced using digital devices.
• Use an IPad/ digital camera, selecting an appropriate composition.Identify that some art can be produced using digital devices.

• Use an IPad/ digital camera, selecting an appropriate composition.
• Use a digital image in conjunction with another technique such as drawing or collage.

To take inspiration from the greats (classic and modern)

Describe the work of notable artists, artisans and designers.

Use some of the ideas of artists studied to create pieces.

TBC – Class teachers to select inspirational artists in collaboration with Art coordinator

TBC – Class teachers to select inspirational artists in collaboration with Art coordinator

Key skills

Year 3

Year 4

Know how to:

To develop ideas

Develop ideas form starting points throughout the curriculum.

Collect information, sketches and resources.

Adapt and refine ideas as they progress.

Explore ideas in a variety of ways.

Comment on artworks using visual language.

• Sketchbooks
• Independent research
• Express likes and dislikes of art works seen and brought into the classroom.
• Comment on own work and that of others.
• Offer suggestions for further improvements of own and others' work.

• Sketchbooks
• Independent research
• Using Mind mapping to develop and link ideas from previous sketchbook work.
• Express likes and dislikes of art works seen and brought into the classroom.
• Comment on own work and that of others.
• Offer suggestions for further improvements of own and others' work.

Drawing

Use different hardnesses of pencils to show line, tone and texture.

Annotate sketches to explain and elaborate ideas.

Sketch lightly ( no need to use a rubber to correct mistakes)

Use shading to show light and shadow.

Use hatching and cross hatching to share tone and texture.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Pay closer attention to specific detail using a viewing frame.
• Teach that light and dark tones in pencil, charcoal and pastel drawings help to show form and shape.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Create a range of tones using graded drawing pencils.
• Represent perspective by using lighter tones for objects that are further away and darker for objects that are closer.

Painting

Use a number of brush techniques using thick and thin brushes to produce shapes, textures, patterns and lines.

Mix colours effectively.

Use watercolour paint to produce washes for backgrounds and then add detail.

Experiment with creating mood with colour.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Use colour mixing skills taught in KS1 to match a specific colour (Cave painting pigments).
• Introduce hot and cold colour choices.
• Think about perspective in composition (Objects nearer will be more vibrant than far away objects).

• Leonardo Da Vinci

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Mix a graduation of a given colour by adding white.
• Change the hue of a secondary or tertiary colour by adding one of the component colours.
• Choose and use different sized brushes for a chosen application of paint.
• Introduce complementary colours and use together in a composition.

Collage

Select and arrange materials for a striking effect.

Ensure work is precise.

Use coiling, overlapping, tessellation, mosaic and montage.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Selecting appropriate materials and colours to create an image.
• Combine collage with another art skill i.e. drawing.
  • Use collage to create form

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Selecting appropriate materials and colours to create an image.
• Combine collage with another art skill i.e. drawing
• Collage to create form and tone.

Sculpture- Know how to:

Create and combine shapes to create recognisable forms e.g. shapes made from nets or solid materials.

Include texture that conveys, movement, expression or feelings.

Use clay and other mouldable materials.

Add materials to provide interesting details.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Sculptural forms from a single material.
• Manipulate single material to a given form i.e. use clay to produce a cylindrical form.

Cartouches

Canopic jars

Stonehenge

Suggested artists

TBC – Class teachers to select inspirational artists in collaboration with Art coordinator

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Sculptural forms with 2 materials, i.e. base armature and top layer.
• Select and use appropriate embellishment for sculpture i.e. paint/ collage.

Suggested artists

TBC – Class teachers to select inspirational artists in collaboration with Art coordinator

Print- know how to:

Use layers of 2 or more colours.

Replicate patterns observed in nature or built environments.

Make printing blocks e.g. from coiled string glued to a block.

Make precise repeating patterns.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Create image-based printing blocks using card or polystyrene (stone age art)
• Use handmade colour pigments and printing blocks to produce cave-inspired work.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Create block print using card or polystyrene (as Year 3)
• Use block print to produce a repeating or rotational pattern.

Textiles- know how to:

Shape and stitch materials.

Use basic cross stitch and back stitch.

Colour fabric.

Create weaving

Quilt, pad and gather fabric.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Select and use materials −appropriate to technique

         (can other materials be used in a                    simple weave?)

• Change the appearance of a material through application of a simple technique and stitching.
• Introduce blanket stitch.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Select and use materials −appropriate to technique
• Introduce two more stitches to embellish work.
• Change the appearance of a material through application of a simple technique and stitching.

Digital Media- know how to:

Create images, videos and sound recordings and explain why they were created.

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Use digital camera to form compositions and edit using digital software

Key skills & Suggested activities

• Use digital camera to form compositions and edit using digital software
• Alter the photograph through the use of a range of filters

To take inspiration from the greats ( classic and modern)

Replicate some of the techniques used by notable designers.

Create original pieces that are influenced by the study of others.

Key skills & Suggested activities

Make links between children’s work and the work of notable designers using sentence stems and key vocabulary.

Suggested artists

TBC – Class teachers to select inspirational artists in collaboration with Art coordinator

Henry Moore- spring

Andy Goldsworthy

Make links between children’s work and the work of notable designers using sentence stems and key vocabulary.

Suggested artists

Titian

Greek art and architecture

Anthony Gormley

Phase

Autumn Term

Spring Term

Summer Term

EYFS

Collage: Textured collages with mixed colours

Textiles and drawing: ephemeral art and drawing

Printing: printing using different materials

Year group

Autumn term

Spring term

Summer Term

Year 1

Painting: mondrian painting

Collage and printing: Nebular galaxy print, moon crater collage, Planet Earth mixed media template

Drawing: Rousseau inspired tiger composition

Year 2

Drawing: dragon’s eye and tudor house

Collage and painting: arctic landscape

Printing and drawing: Kenyan sunset

Year 3

Drawing and painting: Colourwash pyramids with one point perspective, large scale colourwash image of Pharaoh Tut,

Colourwash (mixed media) Egyptian style portraits.

Sculpture: Individual monogram initials using quilling, group work pieces to represent school values using paper sculpture

Collage and digital media

Year 4

Painting and sculpture: columns

Collage and printing: Illustrate a front cover for Beowolf

Drawing and textiles: textile rainforest

Year 5

Textiles: Batik project

Sculpture: Islamic art sculpture

Drawing and digital media: Hans Holbien portrait

Year 6

Painting: self portraits inspired by Dean Russo - pastel, design and create William Morris inspired wallpaper.

Collage: The Thames- Mark Hearld collage

Drawing