Year 2 Art and Design

Tell a story- Drawing

This unit focuses on helping pupils develop their ability to tell a story through drawing. It includes lessons on creating textures, observational drawing, character expression, and storytelling through illustrations, enhancing pupils' mark-making techniques, observational skills, and imagination in art.

1. Charcoal mark making. To develop a range of mark making techniques.

2. Creating texture. To explore and experiment with mark-making to create textures.

3. My toy story. To develop observational drawing.

4. Creating characters. To understand how to apply expressions to illustrate a character. 

5. Tell a story. To develop illustrations to tell a story. *

Tell a story- Drawing

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.

Life in colour- Painting & mixed media 

This unit focuses on teaching primary and secondary colours, colour mixing, and creating textures using different tools. It also covers collage techniques, encouraging pupils to experiment with materials and evaluate their artistic choices and aims to develop children's understanding of colour, texture, and composition in art.

1. Colour magic. To develop knowledge of colour mixing.

2. Treasure hunt. To know how texture can be created with paint.

3. Making textures. To use paint to explore texture and pattern. 

4. Collage creation. To compose a collage, choosing and arranging materials for effect.

5. Developing detail. To evaluate and improve artwork.

Life in colour- Painting & mixed media 

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.

Clay houses- Sculpture & Clay

This unit focuses on teaching pupils to shape and decorate clay, create a pinch pot, design and make a clay tile with house features. It emphasises practical skills in working with clay and applying artistic techniques in a structured project. 

1.  Exploring clay. To use my hands as a tool to shape clay.

2. Pinch pots. To shape a pinch pot and join clay shapes as decoration.

3. Applying skills in clay. To use impressing and joining techniques to decorate a clay tile.

4. Designing a tile. To use drawing to plan the features of a 3D model.

5. House tiles. To make a 3D clay tile from a drawn design. 

Clay houses- Sculpture & Clay

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.

Map it out- Craft & Design

This unit focuses on teaching children to explore and create maps through various art forms, including drawing, felt making, printmaking, and designing stained glass. The lessons aim to develop skills in sorting, designing, and evaluating art, encouraging students to present and discuss their creations in a class gallery setting.

1. Creative journey. To investigate maps as a stimulus for drawing.

2. Relief maps. To develop a drawing into 3D artwork.

3. Abstract maps. To experiment with a craft technique to develop an idea.

4.  Print possibilities. To develop ideas and apply craft skills when printmaking.*

5. Gallery experience. To present artwork and evaluate it against a design brief. 

Map it out- Craft & Design

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.