The national curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:

• produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
• become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
• evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
• know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.

Key stage 1

Pupils should be taught:

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

Key stage 2

Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.

Pupils should be taught:

• to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
• about great artists, architects and designers in history.

Year 1 

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Andy Goldsworthy

*Construct

*Use materials to make known objects for a purpose

Year 2 

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Alexander Calder

* Awareness of natural and man-made forms

*Expression of personal experiences and ideas

* to shape and form from direct observation (malleable and rigid materials)

         * decorative techniques

* Replicate patterns and textures in a 3-D form

* work and that of other sculptors

Year 3 

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Natalie Blake

*Shape, form, model and construct (malleable and rigid materials)

* Plan and develop

* understanding of different adhesives and methods of construction

* aesthetics

Year 4

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Henry Moore

* Plan and develop ideas

* Experience surface patterns/textures

* Discuss own work and work of other sculptors

* analyse and interpret natural and manmade forms of construction

Year 5

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Antony Gormley

* plan and develop ideas in increasing detail

 * Shape, form, model and join a variety of materials including alternative joining techniques.

*understand an artists inspiration-observation or imagination

* understand the properties of media

* Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other sculptors

Year 6

Sculpture

Famous Artist Study – Barbara Hepworth

* plan and develop ideas in detail

* Shape, form, model and join including materials such as clay with increasing accuracy

* understand an artists inspiration-observation or imagination

* understand the properties of a wider variety of media

* Discuss and evaluate own work and that of other sculptors in increasing detail.