Art
Art is fully embedded in Highburton CE First Academy and our aspiration is that every child adopts a lifelong love of the arts. Our curriculum equips pupils with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design; engaging, inspiring and challenging them. As pupils progress, they are able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of Art and Design.
The children should also know how Art and Design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. Pupils capture their individual ideas and the processes of their learning within their own sketch book, which travels with them throughout their school career. This sketch book allows the children to develop and snapshot every step of their explorative learning, encapsulating their individual ideas, testing different mediums, planning, designing and developments for large scale pieces, analytical thought, new skills processes and the progression from each unit and between each year group.
Map it out!
This unit focuses on teaching children to explore and create maps through various art forms, including drawing and printmaking. The lessons aim to develop skills in sorting, designing, and evaluating art, encouraging children to present and discuss their creations.
Painting- Life in Colour
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.
Drawing-Tell a Story
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.
Prehistoric Art
Year 3 have been working hard to follow the different steps to create their own piece of prehistoric art.
- Exploring with natural materials for textures and colours.
- Looking at cave paintings and thinking about appropriate colours.
- Thinking about wildlife and animals that lived during that time.
- Using rice and lentils to create their own cave background.
- Creating and making paint from natural materials and exploring colour mixing.
- Using charcoal to complete your drawing and piece of prehistoric artwork.
Take a look at the process below.
Ancient Egypt Scrolls - Craft and Design
Year 3 enjoyed learning about Ancient Egyptian art, making their own papyrus paper and completing a scroll.
- Exploring Ancient Egyptian Art
- Designing Scrolls
- Making Paper
- Scroll Making
- Making Zines
Have a look at an example of the steps below.
Drawing- I Need Space!
This unit focuses on understanding retrofuturism, developing skills in evaluating images and creating art through various drawing processes, including collagraph printmaking. It emphasises the development of pupils' independent artistic skills and their ability to generate, test, and refine ideas in their sketchbooks, leading to a final piece of artwork.
Spring in EYFS. The children painted daffodils from observing flowers.
