Key Stage 1

• Record and explore ideas from first hand observations
• Ask and answer questions about the starting points for their work
• Develop their ideas, try things out, charge their minds
• Explore the work of artists, craftspeople and designers from different times and cultures for differences and similarities

Key Stage 2

• Select and record from first hand observations, experience and imagination, and explore ideas for different purposes
• Question and make thoughtful observations about starting points and select ideas to use in their work
• Explore the roles and purposes of artists, craftspeople and designers working in different times and cultures

Key Stage 1

• Review that they and others have doe and say what they think and feel about it
• Identify what they might change in their current work or develop in future work

Key Stage 2

• Compare ideas, methods and approaches in their own and others’ work and say what they think and feel about them
• Adapt their work according to their views and describe how they might develop it further
• Annotate work in a sketchbook

Nursery and Reception

• Explore different media and apply on a range of surfaces
• Create patterns using different lines

Years 1 and 2

• Experiment with a variety of media
• Control the size of marks they make
• Observe and draw shapes from observations
• Invent new shapes
• Investigate tone by drawing light/dark lines, light/dark patterns, light/dark shapes
• Investigate textures by describing, naming, rubbing, copying

Years 3 and 4

• Make marks and lines with a wide range of drawing implements
• Experiment with different grades of pencil and other implements
• Begin to show an awareness of objects have a third dimension
• Apply tone in a drawing in a simple way
• Create textures with a wide range of drawing implements
• Apply a simple use of pattern and texture in a drawing

Years 5 and 6

• Use dry media to make different marks, lines, patterns and shapes within a drawing
• Experiment with wet media
• Explore colour mixing and blending techniques with coloured pencils
• Use different techniques for different purposes
• Start to develop their own style using tonal contrast and mixed media
• Begin to simplify perspective
• Begin to develop an awareness of composition, scale and proportion

Years 1 and 2

• Explore ideas using digital sources
• Record visual information using digital cameras, video recorders etc
• Use a simple graphics package to create images and effects
• Use basic selection and cropping tools

Years 3 and 4

• Record and collect visual information using digital cameras and video recorders
• Present recorded images using software
• Use a graphics package to create images and effects

Years 5 and 6

• Use a graphics package to create and manipulate new images
• Be able to import an image into a graphics package
• Understand that a digital image is created by layering
• Create layered images from original ideas

Nursery and Reception

• Explore the qualities of paint
• Apply thick/thin paint with fingers, sponges, thick brushes, card and sticks etc
• Mix powder paint using primary colours

Years 1 and 2

• Use a variety of tools and techniques including different brush sizes and types
• Mix and match colours to artefacts and objects
• Work on different scales
• Experiment with tools and techniques
• Name different types of paint and their properties
• Identify primary colours by name
• Mix primary shades and tones
• Create textured paint by adding sand/plaster

Years 3 and 4

• Experiment with different effects and textures
• Work on a range of scales
• Create different effects and textures with paint according to what they need for the task
• Mix colours and know which primary colours make secondary colours
• Use more specific colour language
• Mix and use tints and shades

Years 5 and 6

• Develop painting from a drawing
• Carry out preliminary studio, trying out different media and materials and mixing appropriate colours
• Create imaginative work from a variety of sources
• Mix and match colours to create atmosphere and light effects
• Be able to identify primary, secondary, complimentary and contrasting colours

Nursery and Reception

• Explore different kinds of printing
• Apply finger paint on a shiny surface and take a mono print of it
• Print with found objects using a growing selection of colours

Years 1 and 2

• Print with a range of hard and soft materials
• Make simple marks on rollers and printing palettes
• Make simple prints
• Roll printing ink over found objects to create patterns
• Build repeating patterns and recognise pattern in the environment
• Create simple printing blocks with press print
• Design more repetitive patterns
• Experiment with overprinting motifs and colour
• Make rubbings to collect textures and patterns

Years 3 and 4

• Create printing blocks using a relief or impressed method
• Create repeating patterns
• Print with two colour overlays

Years 5 and 6

• Create printing blocks by simplifying an initial sketch book idea
• Use relief or impressed method
• Create prints with three overlays
• Work into prints with a range of media

Nursery and Reception

• Glue a selection of materials onto card or fabric
• Talk about the different textures
• Sort materials, threads, fabrics, yarns etc into colours, textures and arrange in a pattern

Years 1 and 2

• Match and sort fabrics and threads for colour, texture, length, size and shape
• Change and modify threads and fabrics, knotting, fraying, fringing, pulling threads, twisting, plaiting
• Cut and shape fabric using scissors/snips
• Apply shapes with glue or by stitching
• Apply decoration using beads, buttons, feathers etc
• Create cords and plaits for decoration
• Apply colour with printing, dipping, fabric crayons
• Create and use dyes
• Create fabrics by weaving materials

Years 3 and 4

• Use a variety of techniques to create different textural effects
• Match the tool to the material
• Develop skills in stitching, cutting and joining
• Experiment with paste resist

Years 5 and 6

• Use fabrics to create 3D structures
• Use different grades of threads and needles
• Experiment with batik techniques
• Experiment with a range of media to overlap and layer creating interesting colours and textures and effects

Years 1 and 2

• Manipulate malleable materials in a variety of ways including rolling and kneading
• Explore sculpture with a range go malleable media
• Manipulate malleable materials for a purpose
• Understand the safety and basic care of materials and tools
• Experiment with constructing and joining recycled, natural and manmade materials
• Use simple 2D shapes to create a 3D form
• Change the surface of a malleable material

Years 3 and 4

• Plan, design and make models from observation or imagination
• Join clay adequately and construct a simple base for extending and modelling other shapes
• Create surface patterns and textures in a malleable material
• Use papier mache to create a simple 3D object

Years 5 and 6

• Shape, form, model and construct from observation and imagination
• Use recycled, natural and manmade materials to create sculptures
• Plan a sculpture through drawing ad other preparatory work
• Develop skills in using clay including slabs, coils, slips etc
• Produce intricate patterns and textures in a malleable media

Nursery and Reception

• Explore different papers tear and cut to make a collage of a variety of textures
• Explore a growing range of collage materials
• Sort into groups of smooth, rough, shiny etc and create corresponding collages

Years 1 and 2

• Create images from a variety of media
• Arrange and glue materials to different backgrounds
• Sort and group materials for different purposes
• Fold, crumple, tear and overlap papers
• Work on different scales
• Collect, sort, name and match colours appropriately for an image
• Create and arrange shapes appropriately
• Create, select and use textured paper for an image

Years 3 and 4

• Experiment with a range of collage techniques such as tearing, overlapping and layering to create images and represent textures
• Use collage as a means of collecting ideas and information and building a visual vocabulary

Years 5 and 6

• Add collage to a printed or drawn background
• Use a range of media to create collages
• Use different techniques, colours and textures etc when designing and making pieces of work
• Use collage as a means of extending work from initial ideas