Art and design: Lower Key Stage 2
Providing full curriculum coverage for Lower KS2 Art and design. Developing pupils' skills and knowledge across four key areas: Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media, Sculpture and 3D and Craft and Design.
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Choose your unit - Year 3 and Year 4
Year 3
Discovering how and why our ancient ancestors made art, experimenting with natural materials to make homemade paints and playing with scale to paint on a range of surfaces.
Developing an understanding of shading and drawing techniques to create botanical inspired drawings.
Exploring how shapes and negative spaces can be represented by three dimensional forms. Manipulating a range of materials, children learn ways to join and create free-standing structures inspired by the work of Anthony Caro.
Developing design and craft skills taking inspiration from Ancient Egyptian art and pattern and paper making.
Year 4
Using mechanical engravings as a starting point, pupils develop an awareness of proportion, composition and pattern in drawing and combine media for effect when developing a drawing into a print.
Developing skills in colour mixing, focusing on using tints and shades to create a 3D effect. Experimenting with composition and applying painting techniques to a personal still life piece.
Exploring how different materials can be shaped and joined and learning about techniques used by artists as diverse as Barbara Hepworth and Sokari Douglas-Camp, children create their own sculptures.
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.
