Art and D&T Curriculum

Autumn 1 / Autumn 2 / Spring 1 / Spring 2 / Summer 1 / Summer 2
Year 1 / Animals – Printing, patterns, texture & materials (Henri Rousseau)
-Aboriginal: Pointillism / Toys – Paint
-Joan Miro / Opposites/contrast – chalk & pastel
LS Lowry / Materials – Collage & shaping materials / Observational drawing: flowers/fruit
-Impressionists / ‘Under the Sea’ – mixed craft, materials & techniques
-Fabricate
Box Modelling / Christmas cards & crafts / Moving Pictures –
Traditional Tales / Cookery:
Sensational Salads / Tie-dye – dye & fabric
Year 2 / Obs. Drawing: Shells
-Turner landscapes- paint
Landscapes & Cityscapes / Sculpture – modelling materials, shape, form & space
Let’s Sculpt! / Design: Chinese Art & Willow Pattern Plate – line & pattern / Obs. Drawing: Castles – shape, form & space
Natural Sculptures / Piet Mondrian – line and colour (pen)
Colour Chaos / Andy Warhol – popular subjects, colour & materials
Portraits
Hand Puppets - sewing / Recycling & Up-cycling – model making / Model Houses
(Fire of London) / Cookery / Bird feeders / Fabric - Ribbon & Hat design (Bedworth craft)
Year 3 / -European Artists
- Klimt / Sketching, form & Shading: Rembrandt (pencil & chalk) / -Greek design & Mosaics
-Architecture / Salvador Dali – imagination & illusion / -Cave painting (charcoal)
-clay / Obs. Drawing: flowers
-Mixed media
Georgia O’Keefe
Harvest & Cookery
Papier-Mache Globe / Shadow Puppets – stencilling / Greek Masks (plays) / Fridge Magnets - design / Volcanoes – sculpting
(clay & papier Mache) / Fair-trade packaging
Year 4 / Obs. Drawing: Fish
‘The Great Wave’
Watercolours / Hans Holbein:
Portraits – proportions & painting / Irreversible changes: Peppers – sketching, clay & paint / -Roman art & craft
-Wassily Kandinsky –sound, line & colour / Observation drawing (nature/insects) / Pablo Picasso - abstract
Roy Lichtenstein – Pop art/cartooning
Soft Drink – drinks & packaging / Picture Frames – wood work / Baking – chemical changes / Musical instruments (with Science) / Bug Hotel – natural materials / Modelling: Plastic
Year 5 / Michelangelo
-Architecture
(Seven Wonders) / -Frida Kahlo – personal & emotional
-South & central American / Japanese Design – printmaking, inks & papers
-Yayoi Kusama (modern) / Van Gogh - ‘Starry Night’
Futuristic – colour & metallic / Scandinavian Art – repetition, mirroring, print and pattern
(folk & minimalist) / Obs. drawing: Brazil/nature
-pencil, charcoal & pastel
Roberto Burle Marx
-Decoupage/collage
Items (boxes, frames) / Cookery - Chocolate / Mechanisms -Mechanical Posters / Rocket & Solar System / Vikings - metal craft / Sewing: Rainforest tapestry - sewing
Year 6 / Light: Vermeer
Mobiles - Movement / -Victorian Design: William Morris pattern
-Foreign Influences / Scottish Artists & Art / North American Artists & Art / British Artists & WWII Missing Masters / Under the microscope - Magnification
Eco-Friendly Products / Torches / Mechanisms - Automata Animals / VE Day Bunting - sewing / Cookery – Fair Trade