New Longton All Saints’ C. of E. Primary School
Art and Design Curriculum 2015-2016
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Overview
At New Longton we provide a high-quality art curriculum that inspires pupils to succeed in all areas of
art and design. We provide a wide range of opportunities through our creative curriculum to develop a
variety of skills through a topic based approach.
Our aims follow the national 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.
In KS1, children will be taught to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
They will use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and
imagination. They will spend time looking at and developing their skills in the visual elements of colour,
pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. Children will also learn 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.
In KS2, children will be taught to develop their art and design techniques, including their control and
use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art,
craft and design. As part of their work in art and design, the children will create sketch books to record
their observations and as a tool 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]. In KS2, the children will also learn about great artists, architects and designers in
history.
Scheme of Work
KS1and Early Years
Year R
Year 1
Year 2
Autumn 1
Self Portraits
Make houses
Talking about
Art; Drawing;
Collage;
Model
Making;
Painting;
Sculpture;
Animal
Masks and
Products
Sculpture
Autumn 2
Spring 1
Collage and
Painting
Observational
Drawing
Large-scale
Painting
Spring 2
Summer 1
Summer 2
Collage and
painting
Working
with natural
materials;
Drawing
and
painting.
Carnival Masks
and
Headdresses;
Collage
Observational
Drawing
Sculpture
Sculpture
using
Natural
Materials
Observational
Drawing
Printing
Flower
Pressing
Model Making
KS2
Year 3
Autumn 1
Sculpture
Photography
Autumn 2
Spring 1
3D sculpture 3D scale
Greek art and models
design
Year 4
Weaving
Clay
modelling
Musicinspired Art
Year 5
Printing;
Design
Drawing;
Perspectives
Year 6
Great Artists
of the 19th
and 20th
Centuries
Describe and
explain
the ideas,
methods and
techniques
Discrete
Spring 2
Sculpture
Design
Clay work
Crayon art
Photography
Photography; Portraiture
Painting;
and Figurines
Block Printing
Summer 1
Neolithic art
Clay beakers
Iron Age
jewellery
Observational
Drawings
3D models
Clay sculpture
Anthony
Gormleyanother place
Batik Art
Printing
Famous
seascapes
Portraits;
Sketching
Tudor
Fashions; 3D
Modelling
3-D Textiles
Summer 2
Embossed
pattern and
pictures
Making
jewellery
Native
American
dream
catchers
Weaving
Journey
sticks
Photography;
Salvador
Dali; Collage,
Andy Warhol
Digital Art
Use paint
techniques
characteristic
of a specific
genre
Assessment
As part of the National Curriculum reform, the previous system of ‘levels’ used to report children’s
attainment has been removed. The removal of levels has allowed us a greater flexibility in the way that
we plan and assess the children’s learning. The programme of study for Art and Design, sets out
expectations for the end of each key stage, and children will be assessed against these objectives as
they progress through each year.