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Autumn Spring Summer
Year 1
Topic Based Autumn Leaf Prints
Painting
Drawing
Collage
Wax Resist
Bonfire / Fireworks
Christmas make and do!

Weather paintings
Blown Ink
Egg box daffodils

Observational fruit drawing
Sunflower collage
Fruit and vegetable prints
Marbling
Year 2
Portraits - pencil / paint
Work of Van Gogh
Collage
Painting - Mixing Colours
Pastels
Christmas Art Craft

Topic based Art 'Weather' theme
Painting
Printing
Pastels
Pencil
Easter artwork

Topic based Art 'Minibeast' theme
Observational / Imaginative work
Painting
Pastels
Pencil
Year 3
Observational drawing using Natural Objects
using pencil and pastels
Line drawing – shoes
Texture using different pencils
Greek patterns and designs
Colour mixing – secondary and tertiary colours
colour wheel
Clay – slab work, rolled and moulded; make a decorative plate design
Design a Pot representing a Greek God

Portraits
Portraying relationships – enlarged painting
Print making with found objects on paper and cloth.
Roman Mosaic design

Paper and paste
Plant pot
Year 4
Theme: faces
Self portraits
Tudor portraits
Using pencils, pastels, paint, collage
Seasonal Activities
Willow pattern paper plate

Drawing; various medium eg charcoal, pastels, chalks, felt, biro
Still life; fruit, flowers
Exploring texture
Soft Toys
Mothers Day and Easter Cards


Papier Mache – making a plate - Clarice Cliff
Garden/landscapes – painting/sketching paintings in the style of Monet
Year 5
Experiment with mixed media
Looking at how to use textures, marks etc to represent moods and subjects
Experiment with mark making and materials
Textured relief collages
Group map project
Artists who have used M.M.

Pupils will practise observation drawing using plants and flowers as their source
They will look at the artist Georgia O'Keefe, William Morris and Robin Phillipson
Painting and assemblages based on their plant and flower studies

Observational drawings of a wide variety of still-life objects
Traditional still-life paintings and more contemporary styles will be studied
Pupils will produce their own still-life based on 'home'.
Year 6
Studying abstract patterns and designs
Looking at lettering and its uses
Produce a 3D Letter and decorate with paint and patterns
Abstract art, typography
American artist Frank Stella

One-point perspective and scale
Study correct proportion and perspective of human figure
Produce series of studies from life of the figure
Study artist themes to display in a gallery picture
Produce an 'art gallery', complete with paintings and audience

Pupils will study architecture and look at the variety of window and door features on local buildings and home
Collage images of buildings (facades) and decorative features
3D town scape using ceramics

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