Year 2 Art and Design
Autumn Term
Tell a story- Drawing
In this topic pupils will use storybook illustration as a stimulus, children develop their mark-making to explore a wider range of tools and experiment with creating texture to add detail to drawings.
To develop a range of mark making techniques.
To explore and experiment with mark-making to create textures.
To develop observational drawing.
To understand how to apply expressions to illustrate a character.
To develop illustrations to tell a story. *
National Curriculum Objectives
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
To develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.
To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials e.g. pencil, charcoal, paint, clay.
To 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.
To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
Spring Term
Life in colour- Painting & mixed media
In this unit children will develop colour mixing skills, learn about the work of artist Romare Bearden and create textured papers using paint. Children will compose collages inspired by their exploration of colour and texture in the world around them.
To develop knowledge of colour mixing.
To know how texture can be created with paint.
To use paint to explore texture and pattern.
To compose a collage, choosing and arranging materials for effect.
To evaluate and improve artwork.
National Curriculum Objectives
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
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.
Summer Term
Clay houses- Sculpture & Clay
In this topic pupils will explore the way clay can be shaped and joined, children learn a range of essential skills for working with this medium. They learn about the sculpture of Rachel Whiteread and create their own clay house tile in response.
To use my hands as a tool to shape clay.
To shape a pinch pot and join clay shapes as decoration.
To use impressing and joining techniques to decorate a clay tile.
To use drawing to plan the features of a 3D model.
To make a 3D clay tile from a drawn design.
National Curriculum Objectives
To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
To know 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.
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
Art & Design Day
Map it out- Craft & Design
In this topic pupils will respond to a design brief, children learn three techniques for working creatively with materials and at the end of the project, evaluate their design ideas.
To investigate maps as a stimulus for drawing.
To learn and apply the steps of the felt-making process.
To experiment with a craft technique to develop an idea.
To develop ideas and apply craft skills when printmaking.*
To present artwork and evaluate it against a design brief.
National Curriculum Objectives
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
To 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.
To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.