Curriculum Notes

Key Stage 2 - Knowledge, skills and understanding

Exploring and developing ideas

1. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. record from experience and imagination, to select and record from first-hand observation and to explore ideas for different purposes
   2. question and make thoughtful observations about starting points and select ideas to use in their work
   3. collect visual and other information [for example, images, materials] to help them develop their ideas, including using a sketchbook

Investigating and making art, craft and design

2. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. investigate and combine visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and to match these qualities to the purpose of the work
   2. apply their experience of materials and processes, including drawing, developing their control of tools and techniques
   3. use a variety of methods and approaches to communicate observations, ideas and feelings, and to design and make images and artefacts.

Evaluating and developing work

3. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. compare ideas, methods and approaches in their approaches and others’ work and say what they think and feel about them
   2. adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might develop it further. Knowledge and understanding
4. Pupils should be taught about:
   1. visual and tactile elements, including colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space and how these elements can be combined and organised for different purposes
   2. materials and processes used in art, craft and design and how these can be matched to ideas and intentions
   3. the roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures [for example, Western Europe and the wider world].

Breadth of study

5. During the key stage, pupils should be taught the knowledge, skills and understanding through:
   1. exploring a range of starting points for practical work [for example, themselves, their experiences, images, stories, drama, music, natural and made objects and environments]
   2. working on their own, and collaborating with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales
   3. using a range of materials and processes, including ICT [for example, painting, collage, print making, digital media, textiles, sculpture]
   4. investigating art, craft and design in the locality and in a variety of genres, styles and traditions [for example, in original and reproduction form, during visits to museums, galleries and sites, on the internet] .

Key Stage Three - Knowledge, skills and understanding

Exploring and developing ideas

1. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. record and analyse first-hand observations, to select from experience and imagination and to explore ideas for different purposes and audiences
   2. discuss and question critically, and select from a range of visual and other information [for example, exhibitions, interviews with practitioners, CDROMS] to help them develop ideas for independent work
   3. organise and present this information different ways, including using a sketchbook Investigating and making art, craft and design
2. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. investigate, combine and manipulate materials and images, taking account of purpose and audience
   2. apply and extend their experience of a range of materials and processes, including drawing, refining their control of tools and techniques
   3. experiment with and select methods and approaches, synthesise observations, ideas and feelings, and design and make images and artefacts.

Evaluating and developing work

3. Pupils should be taught to:
   1. analyse and evaluate their own and others’ work, express opinions and make reasoned judgements
   2. adapt and refine their work and plan and develop this further, in the light of their own and others' evaluations.

Knowledge and understanding

4. Pupils should be taught about:
   1. the visual and tactile qualities of materials and processes and how these can be manipulated and matched to ideas, purposes and audiences
   2. codes and conventions and how these are used to represent ideas, beliefs, and values in works of art, craft and design
   3. continuity and change in the purposes and audiences of artists, craftspeople and designers from Western Europe and the wider world [for example, differences in the roles and functions of art in contemporary life, medieval, Renaissance and post-Renaissance periods in Western Europe, and in different cultures such as Aboriginal, African, Islamic and Native American] .

Breadth of study

5. During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
   1. exploring a range of starting points for practical work including themselves, their experiences and natural and made objects and environments
   2. working on their own, and collaborating with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales
   3. using a range of materials and processes, including ICT [for example, painting, collage, print making, digital media, textiles, sculpture]
   4. investigating art, craft and design in the locality, in a variety of genres, styles and traditions, and from a range of historical, social and cultural contexts [for example, in original and reproduction form, during visits to museums, galleries and sites, on the internet].