The EllisChurch Of England Primary School

‘Be The Best You Can Be’

The Ellis CE Primary Art Curriculum document

Being an artist

A foundation stage artist can

• Use large-muscle movements to wave flags and streamers, paint and make marks.
• Choose the right resources to carry out their own plan.
• Use one-handed tools and equipment, for example, making snips in paper with scissors.
• Use a comfortable grip with good control when holding pens and pencils.
• Explore different materials freely, in order to develop their ideas about how to use them and what to make.
• Develop their own ideas and then decide which materials to use to express them.
• Join different materials and explore different textures.
• Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.
• Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.
• Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear, etc.
• Explore colour and colour mixing.
• Develop their small motor skills so that they can use a range of tools competently, safely and confidently.
• Use their core muscle strength to achieve a good posture when sitting at a table or sitting on the floor.
• Develop overall body-strength, balance, coordination and agility.
• Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.
• Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.
• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.
• Hold a pencil effectively in preparation for fluent writing – using the tripod grip in almost all cases.
• Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paintbrushes and cutlery.
• Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing.
• 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.

A year 1 artist

• I can show how people feel in paintings and drawings.
• I can create moods in art work.
• I can use pencils to create lines of different thickness in drawings.
• I can name the primary and secondary colours.
• I can create a repeating pattern in print.
• I can cut, roll and coil materials.
• I can use IT to create a picture.
• I can describe what I can see and give an opinion about the work of an artist.
• I can ask questions about a piece of art.

A year 2 artist

• I can choose and use three different grades of pencil when drawing.
• I can use charcoal, pencil and pastel to create art.
• I can use a viewfinder to focus on a specific part of an artefact before drawing it.
• I can mix paint to create all the secondary colours.
• I can create brown with paint.
• I can create tints with paint by adding white.
• I can create tones with paint by adding black.
• I can create a printed piece of art by pressing, rolling, rubbing and stamping.
• I can make a clay pot.
• I can join two clay finger pots together.
• I can use different effects within an IT paint package.
• I can suggest how artists have used colour, pattern and shape.
• I can create a piece of art in response to the work of another artist.

A year 3 artist

• I can show facial expressions in my art.
• I can use sketches to produce a final piece of art.
• I can use different grades of pencil to shade and to show different tones and textures.
• I can create a background using a wash.
• I can use a range of brushes to create different effects in painting.
• I can identify the techniques used by different artists.
• I can use digital images and combine with other media in my art.
• I can use IT to create art which includes my own work and that of others.
• I can compare the work of different artists.
• I recognise when art is from different cultures.
• I recognise when art is from different historical periods.

A year 4 artist

• I can show facial expressions and body language in sketches and paintings.
• I can use marks and lines to show texture in my art.
• I can use line, tone, shape and colour to represent figure and forms in movement.
• I can show reflections in my art.
• I can print onto different materials using at least four colours.
• I can sculpt clay and other mouldable materials.
• I can integrate my digital images into my art.
• I can experiment with the styles used by other artists.
• I can explain some of the features of art from historical periods.

A year 5 artist

• I can identify and draw objects and use marks and lines to produce texture.
• I can successfully use shading to create mood and feeling.
• I can organise line, tone, shape and colour to represent figures and forms in movement.
• I can use shading to create mood and feeling.
• I can express emotion in my art.
• I can create an accurate print design following criteria.
• I can use images which I have created, scanned and found; altering them where necessary to create art.
• I can research the work of an artist and use their work to replicate a style.

A year 6 artist

• I can explain why I have used different tools to create art.
• I can explain why I have chosen specific techniques to create my art.
• I can explain the style of my work and how it has been influenced by a famous artist.
• I can over print to create different patterns.
• I can use feedback to make amendments and improvement to my art.
• I can use a range of e-resources to create art.