ART

At Southglade we have a wide and varied curriculum and through our book based topics. We now teach art in a block as one of our curriculum drivers. This means it will have in depth coverage and the children will be able to create some really exciting projects. We will  link our themes into our art work. These can be seen displayed throughout the school and classrooms.

Each year group will  look at using a range of mediums and develop their drawing, painting and sculpture. During sessions learning about colour, pattern, texture, line and space. As they move through the school they have a sketch book which records their work and shows the progression

Please see our art progression maps for the skills they will cover and build upon in each year group.

We also cover art in our Awe and Wonder weeks and theme days. Every year we have the Bestwood cultural week were we study the arts for the afternoons during this week.

Our progression ladders show the skills and techniques which the children build up on year by year.

Below details each year groups main art driver, throughout the year children are taught two blocks of focused art, one of these is focused around 2D art and the other 3D art which is often linked to another curriculum driver. In every block children will focus on one or more artists to ensure a wide and variety of styles and cultural heritage is taught. Children will also be taught art at other times of the year and often consolidate skills hey have been taught.                

Year 1 Curriculum drivers

Year 1 have had the curriculum driver of art Autumn term and have being studying Picasso. They began by looking at portraits and how to sketch a face. They then looked in detail at Picasso prints. They explore primary and mixing secondary colours. They experimented with different ways of creating Picasso pictures using their portrait as inspiration.

They also look at 3D skills later in the year, with a focus on collage, they experiment with printing, weaving and using different materials to make pictures.

Year 2 art Curriculum drivers

Year 2 have just completed their curriculum driver on Kandinsky. They explored Kandinsky work and that of Paul Klee and applied these ideas to their work.  They spent a lot of time looking and exploring abstract work and recalled the abstract work they looked at on Picasso in year 1. They also used colour mixed to make secondary colours, shades and tints. Their final pieces were inspired of the work they have done throughout the driver.

Their other work is based on 3D work, based on castles we revisit weaving, and printing and look at creating decorative effects for a castle.

Year 3 Pop art

Year 3 focus on Pop art looking at the work of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. They recap on previous colour work and focus on developing this by looking at tertiary colours and complementary. They develop their knowledge of sketching and developing their own ideas. They then go on to explore printing with a tile, and combing different colours in a print to create their own pop art.

They look at 3D skills in their unit colour explosions. They look at the work of Dale Chilhuly and how he creates colourful explosions. The children experiment with sculpture and colour.

Year 4 Curriculum drivers

Year 4 focus on the artist Alaa Awad and his inspiration taken from past Egyptian tomb paintings. The children recall their printing skills from year 3 and focus on sketching to create an Egyptian symbol print. They focus on looking at past pictures to inspire their work and focus on creating a side self portrait of themselves. They look at tonal scales with colour and how they can use these in their work to make their drawings more realistic.  Their second unit of work is on immigration and based on clay work around butterflies, developing shape, texture and design.

Year 5 Viking art

Year 5 link both their history topics to their art drivers. They look in detail at past Viking artefacts ad key features of the art. They then use these skills to develop their sketching skills and focus on developing shading again with tonal scales. The children design different ideas for their artefact. They use embossing to create part of their artefact and then add 3D elements to develop texture.

While studying the Greeks they look at the role of theatre and create their own design and make a Greek mask.

Year 6 Curriculum driver

Year 6 focus on creating their own composition based around art from the rainforest they look at John Dees project on the Amazon rainforest. They explore colour theory, developing sketching and exploring using texture. They have the opportunity to use the skills they have learned into their final piece. 

In the Henry Moore unit,  they look at WW2 art and sculpture. Looking at Moore's work and Bill Brandt photography from that time. They build on skills previously learnt. They build on work with clay and experiment with realistic and abstract clay models. They design their own model based on what they have learnt.