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Headteacher: Mrs V. CamposArt
Art, craft and design
Learning art at Boxmoor Primary School is all about being creative, learning about inspirational artists and creating art work through the use of different media and techniques. The National Curriculum has been divided up amongst the year groups with respect to appropriateness of content at different ages and natural curriculum links with other subjects. We have recently worked collaboratively in order to include more 3D work into our curriculum.
We focus our teaching for each art unit on an overarching question that we revisit at the end of the teaching. This is in order for the children to now answer the question posed using the knowledge they have gained.
Embedded in the units are:
- An inspirational artists, craft makers and designers, and opportunity to understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
- A media to explore, becoming proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture, textiles, collage or digital technology.
- Techniques to improve their skills in colour, pattern, line, shape, texture and form.
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- The gaining of subject specific vocabulary
The following are the units that the children currently learn within each year group and each overarching question:
Year | Unit |
N | Creating closed shapes with continuous line Use these shapes to represent objects. Represent faces with circles and details. Use drawing to represent movement or loud noises. Show different emotions in their drawings. Explore colour and colour mixing. |
R | Explore, use and refine a variety of artist effects to express their ideas and feelings. Return to and build upon previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them. Create collaboratively sharing ideas, resources and skills. |
Year 1 | Architect Shigeru Ban Paper sculpture |
Year 1 | Pieter Bruegel- Children’s games picture |
Year 1 | Aboriginal dot art |
Year 2 | Great fire of London pictures Kandinsky circles |
Year 2 | Matisse collage Paul Klee Nurses portraits |
Year 2 | Wire sculptures of flowers Yayoi Kusaama Tinga Tinga paintings Edward Tinga |
Year 3 | Bio, eco, canotyptopic, relief printing. Andy Goldsworthy Walter Mason Eqyptian Art Pharoahs |
Year 3 | Quintin Blake |
Year 3 | Cave art Clay and plaster fossils Jewellery Elena Fernandez |
Year 4 | Andy Goldsworthy Sculpture |
Year 4 | Emma Briggs – Mosaic artist |
Year 4 | Travel Posters – trains vintage |
Year 5 | Andy Warhol pop art Lethal Chris |
Year 5 | Ansel Adams – photography Georgia O’Keefe |
Year 5 | Viking sculpture dragon |
Year 6 | LS Lowry WWII sketching |
Year 6 | Greek Theatre Masks Computer generated design for a Greek repetitive piece of textiles |
Year 6 | Hokusai – Night light sculpture |
If you, or someone you know, has knowledge or experience connected to one or more of the units that we study please contact the art coordinator, who would be pleased to welcome further contributions to our learning.
Autumn Term art
