Art

This half term we will be using to tell a story

Generating ideas

• Beginning to generate ideas from a wider range of stimuli, exploring different media and techniques.

Using sketchbooks

• Experimenting in sketchbooks, using drawing to record ideas.

• Using sketchbooks to help make decisions about what to try out next.

Making skills

• Demonstrating increased control with a greater range of media.

• Making choices about which materials and techniques to use to create an effect.

• Developing observational skills to look closely and aim to reflect some of the formal elements of art (colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space) in their work.

Knowledge of artists

• Applying their own understanding of art materials learnt from artist work to begin purposefully choosing materials for a specific effect.

Evaluating and analysing

• Explaining their ideas and opinions about their own and others’ artwork, beginning to recognise the stories and messages within in and showing an understanding of why they may have made it.