Art & Design
Our Art & Design Curriculum – A Journey of Creativity
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At St John’s and St Chrysostom’s we value Art and Design as a vital part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. Art and Design allows curiosity, creativity and self- expression to develop whilst also providing the children with opportunities to improve their resilience, problem solving and critical thinking skills.
Our text-led curriculum is a huge inspiration for final outcomes and Art sessions are taught in blocks every term. This is to ensure that the children make meaningful links between subject areas and allows for deep exploration and application of skills. Moreover, children are immersed in the four phases of learning; Inspiration, Planning, Skills Development and Final outcome.
To further enhance learning, the children explore various artists and designers from Manchester, as well as artists from different cultures. We believe that in celebrating our local area and the diverse backgrounds of our children, we will help to create confident world citizens with high aspirations and a secure understanding of who they are and can be.
Curriculum Purpose of study
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.
National Curriculum Aims
The national curriculum for art aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
National Curriculum Key stage 1
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.
YEAR 1: Art & Design
AUTUMN 1
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OUTCOME: Make a large fabric wall hanging, inspired by Lost & Found. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY thick thin shade fabric shape texture narrow pattern |
Lost & Found THE NORTH & SOUTH POLE
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SPRING 2
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OUTCOME: Using a range of materials to create wrapping paper for a present (wrapping paper will be used at the end of summer 2 to wrap a present for Goldilocks).
Front cover used as inspiration - cover is wrapped like a parcel.
KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
VOCABULARY shape primary secondary repeated tone bright shade |
Meerkat Mail BELONGING |
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SUMMER 1 |
OUTCOME: Create a layered 3D flower using a range of textured materials and images. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY cut stick bend fabric colour attach model assemble |
The Tiny Seed PLANTS |
YEAR 2: Art & Design
AUTUMN 2
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OUTCOME: Create light and dark backgrounds with sketches of feathers and owls to mount on top. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY broad narrow fine shade tone charcoal coloured texture |
The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark NIGHT TIME
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SPRING 2
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OUTCOME: Recreate the scene of evacuation from the book. Each child to draw and paint a person from the scene. This will then build up into a whole class piece of art recreating that page from the text. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
VOCABULARY shade tone colour washing painting mixing warm cold |
My Name is not Refugee Refugees- leaving home
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SUMMER 2
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OUTCOME: To build a 3D sculpture of a soldier made from a range of materials. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY shapes mixed media scissors build 3D combined |
Major Glad, Major Dizzy MUSEUMS
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National Curriculum Key stage 2
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.
YEAR 3: Art & Design
SPRING 1
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OUTCOME: Produce cave art that can be used on a display, which can then also be transferred to stone. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY symbol practical improve abstract natural intense |
Stone Age Boy SETTLERS
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SPRING 2
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OUTCOME: Make an image to represent their own identity in the style of Pop Art. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY identify character change improve colour descriptors |
The Silence Seeker WELCOMING NEWCOMERS
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SUMMER 2
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OUTCOME: To build a 3D Egyptian sculpture. (For example: pyramid) KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY sculpture two-dimensional three-dimensional form structure |
Zeraffa Giraffe ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS
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YEAR 4: ART & DESIGN
AUTUMN 1
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OUTCOME: To create a large scaled image of animals in captivity. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
VOCABULARY distance position portrait representational scenery tint |
Gorilla ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY
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SPRING 1
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OUTCOME: To create a Roman helmet using papier mache. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY daub batik motif geometric shape perspective |
Escape from Pompeii INVADERS
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SUMMER 2
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OUTCOME: To create a whole class collage of a rainforest using images from “Where the Forest Meets the Sea” text. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY styles shape texture image overlap inspiration |
Where the Forest Meets the Sea RAINFORESTS
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YEAR 5: Art & Design
AUTUMN 1
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OUTCOME: Create an image from the key text using self-portraits to show expression. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
VOCABULARY perspective subject portrait caricature expression |
Queen of the Falls DAREDEVILS
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SPRING 1
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OUTCOME: Create their own Greek pottery inspired by Greek artefacts. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY artefact pliable flexible construct prototype illustration |
Arthur and the Golden Rope ANCIENT GREECE
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SUMMER 1
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OUTCOME: Space artwork inspired by Peter Thorpe. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Collect ideas for work. Painting:
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY abstract splattered dabbed stroked dotted imaginary relief impressed |
The Darkest Dark EARTH & SPACE
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YEAR 6: Art & Design
AUTUMN 1
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OUTCOME: Adapt an image from the key text with a 2D background and 3D foreground. (Modroc) KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS
Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY shape position dynamic proportion balance gesture |
Star of Fear, Star of Hope WORLD WAR 1 & 2
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SPRING 1
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OUTCOME: To make a landscape painting of a view of an image from the key text. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Drawing:
Painting:
VOCABULARY perspective view point vocal point composition |
Jeremy Button The Island MULTICULTURALISM
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SUMMER 1
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OUTCOME: Produce a collage based on different sea creatures. Use the text ‘The Day I Swapped my Dad for two Goldfish’ for inspiration. KNOWLEDGE
SKILLS Mixed Media:
VOCABULARY embellish enhance practicality manipulation |
Manfish TROPICAL SEAS
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Local artists/ designers
- Stanley Chow- Manchester artist (portraits/ illustrations)
- LS Lowry- Manchester artist
- Meha Hindocha- Designer based in Manchester
- Gemma Truman- Glassblower from Manchester (takes inspiration from nature and birds)
- Emma Reynolds – Illustrator based in Manchester
- Terry Farrell- Famous architect from Sale
- Nomad Clan- Street Mural artists based in Manchester (see Federation Bee project)
- Peter Saville – graphic designer from Manchester
- Kerry Beall- Manchester based graphic designer and illustrator
- David Vaughn- Psychedelic artist
- Helen Bradley- Artist from Lancashire (painted in the style of Lowry)
- William Stott- Landscape artist from Oldham
- Edward Adamson- ‘The father of art therapy’, from Sale
Famous Multicultural artists
- Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and installation, but is also active in painting.
- Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature, identity and artifacts of Mexico.
- Julie Mehretu is a contemporary visual artist, well known for her multi-layered paintings of abstracted landscapes on a large scale, from Ethiopia.
- El Anatsui is a Ghanaian sculptor who uses mixed media to create his work.
- Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistani visual artist. Sikander works across a variety of mediums, including drawing, painting, printmaking, animation, installation, performance and video.
- Wangechi Mutu is a visual artist from Nairobi, Kenya primarily known for her sculptures and paintings.
- Faith Ringgold is an American painter, writer, mixed media sculptor and performance artist, best known for her narrative quilts about race and gender.
- Arpita Singh is a figurative artist from West Bengal, India
Other famous artists to study
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Jan Vermeer
- Claude Monet
- Henri Rousseau
- Mary Cassatt
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Henri Matisse
- Paul Klee
- Franz Marc
- Pablo Picasso
- Marc Chagall
- Andy Warhol