Year 3 Art and Design

Autumn Term

Prehistoric Painting- Painting & mixed media

This unit explores prehistoric art, recreating the style of cave artists using charcoal and natural pigments. Pupils experiment with colour mixing, and creating large-scale artworks, enhancing both artistic skills and historical knowledge.

Exploring Prehistoric art. To apply understanding of prehistoric man made art.
Charcoal animals. To understand scale to enlarge drawings in a different medium.
Prehistoric palettte. To explore how natural products produce pigments to make different colours.
Painting on the cave wall. To select and apply a range of painting techniques.
Hands on a cave wall. To apply painting skills when creating a collaborative artwork.*

Prehistoric Painting- Painting & mixed media

National Curriculum Objectives

To create sketchbooks to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
To know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
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 improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.

Spring Term

Growing artists- Drawing

This unit focuses on teaching children the use of shapes, shading, and texture in art to enhance their drawing skills. It emphasises developing a sense of light and dark, using frottage for texture, and experimenting with different tools to create expressive and abstract art.

See like an artist. To recognise how artists use shape in drawing.
Shading. To understand how to create tone in drawing by shading.
Texture pictures. To understand how texture can be created and used to make art.*
Botanical drawing. To apply observational drawing skills to create detailed studies.
Abstract flowers. To explore composition and scale to create abstract drawings.

Growing artists- Drawing

National Curriculum Objectives

To create sketchbooks to record their observations and use them to review and revise ideas.
To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.
To learn about great artists, architects and designers in history.

Summer Term

Abstract space & shape- Sculpture & 3D

This unit focuses on teaching pupils how to transform 2D card shapes into three-dimensional structures and sculptures. Pupils explore abstract shapes and space, develop skills in constructing 3D objects, and understand the difference between 2D and 3D art.

Structural shapes. To join 2D shapes to make 3D structures.
Constructing in 3D. To join materials in different ways when working in 3D.
Seeing space. To develop ideas for 3D artwork.
Abstract sculpture. To apply knowledge of sculpture when working in 3D.
Surface decoration. To evaluate and improve an artwork.

Abstract space & shape- Sculpture & 3D

National Curriculum Objectives

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 learn about great artists, architects and designers in history.
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 [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay].

Art & Design Day

Fabric of nature- Craft & Design

In this topic pupils will be using the flora and fauna of tropical rainforests as a starting point, children develop drawings through experimentation and textile-based techniques to design a repeating pattern suitable for fabric.

Inspired by the rainforest. To understand starting points in a design process.
One picture, four views. To explore techniques to develop imagery.
Creating patterns. To explore using a textile technique to develop patterns.
Repeating patterns. To learn how to create a repeating pattern.
Fabric designs. To understand how art is made for different purposes.

Fabric of nature- Craft & Design

National Curriculum Objectives

To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
about great artists, architects and designers in history.

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