Knowledge, Skills and Understanding
EXPLORING AND DEVELOPING IDEAS
Pupils should be taught to:
- Record from first-hand observation, experience and imagination, and explore ideas.
- Ask and answer questions about the starting points for their work, and develop their ideas.
INVESTIGATING AND MAKING ART, CRAFT AND DESIGN
Pupils should be taught to:
- Investigate the possibilities of a range of materials and processes.
- Try out tools and techniques and apply these to materials and processes, including drawing.
- Represent observations, ideas and feelings, and design and make images and artefacts.
EVALUATING AND DEVELOPING WORK
Pupils should be taught to:
- Review what they and others have done and say what they think and feel about it.
- Identify what they might change in their current work or develop in their future work.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING
Pupils should be taught to:
- Visual and tactile elements, including colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space.
- Materials and processes used in making art, craft and design.
- Differences and similarities in the work of artists, craftspeople and designers in different times and cultures [for example, sculptors, photographers, architects, textile designers].
BREADTH OF STUDY
During the key stage, pupils should be taught the Knowledge, skills and understanding through:
- Exploring a range of starting points for practical work [for example, themselves, their experiences, stories, natural and made objects and the local environment].
- Working on their own, and collaborating with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales
- Using a range of materials and processes [for example, painting, collage, printmaking, digital media, textiles, sculpture].
- Investigating different kinds of art, craft and design [for example, in the locality, in original and reproduction form, during visits to museums, galleries and sites, on the internet].
