EYFS
Art 2024 - 25
Spring Term
Art and Design – EYFS
Expressive Arts and Design
ELG 16
Creating with Materials
Children will…
Summer Term
‘Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.’
‘Share their creations, explaining the process they have used’.
How we achieve this at Throckley
Drawing self-portraits
Drawing and painting pictures of their family.
Art work inspired by books – The dot, Handa’s surprise.
Creating art inspired by famous Artist, e.g. Andy Goldsworthy / Vincent Van Gogh.
Designing and creating a house for an animal. Adapting work where necessary.
Stickman link – Creating their own stickmen.
Exploring a range of media throughout the year – pens, pencils, crayons, pastels, poster paint, watercolours, brush inks, wool, material etc… to name some.
Outdoor art using a range of mark making materials such as paint rollers and different sized brushes on a large scale.
Craft Area enables children to self-select resources that they need / want to test out including masking tape and glue to join.
Colour mixing
Repeating patterns
Art 2024 - 25
Drawing – line and texture
Explore materials and tools for mark making.
Y1
Science –Seasonal changes and weather
Drawing – line and texture
Evoke mood and represent movement through mark making.
Y2
Drawing and painting
Combine drawing and resist exploring colour, line and shape.
Painting – colour and value
Explore mark making with paint using primary colours.
EYFS – Colour mixing
Maths – 2d shapes and their properties
Painting – Colour and value
Explore line, colour and shape.
Make your own painting tools and develop colour-mixing skills using secondary colours.
Year 1 - primary colours
Print making – line and pattern
Create monoprints and explore mark making and pattern with printing tools.
Collage – texture
Explore the visual and tactile qualities of natural and manufactured objects.
Printmaking – line and pattern
Create repeated patterns with positive and negative space.
EYFS – Repeating patterns
Use natural objects as stimulus.
3d – form and shape
Create coil pots using clay.
Y3
Art 2024 - 25
Year 2 – line , colour and shape
Create tints and learn painting techniques of tonking and sgraffito.
History – Cave art – Palaeolithic and Neolithic
Drawing
Create contour drawings using still life and natural forms.
Science - Rocks
Science – animals including humans (insects)
Y4
Y5
Drawing and painting
Learn about and use the technique of subtractive drawing.
Use organic lines to create landscapes.
Geography – Human and physical geography. Landscapes.
Painting – Colour and tone
Learn about abstract and develop colourmixing skills to include tertiary colours.
Year 2 – Secondary colours
Science – Plants
Printmaking
Create tissue paper bowls.
Create three colour prints and combine printing techniques.
Year 3 - Printmaking
Collage
and 3d
Create wire structures, focusing on line and form.
Combine 3d materials.
EYFS – Combining materials
Combine a range of techniques such as overlapping and layering.
3d
Create slab pots and learn techniques to join and seal clay sections.
Y6
Art 2024 - 25
Painting and collage
Create still life compositions by combining different media and response to cubist work.
Year 4 - drawing (still life)
Adapt and refine ideas and techniques and respond to different styles of art and movements.
Maths – Geometric/3d shapes (Cubism)
Drawing
Combine techniques to create an abstract image.
Learn about surrealism and portraiture.
3d
Explore shape, form and colour and explore the effect of heat to create chihuly-style glass.