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 

We Remember - Poppies

Famous Artist Study – Melissa McKinnon

*Extend the variety of drawings tools

* Explore different textures 

*Observe patterns

*Observe and draw landscapes

Year 2 

We Remember – Poppies

Famous Artist Study – Marion Rose

* experiment with tools and surfaces

* draw a way of recording experiences and feelings

* discuss use of shadows, use of light and dark

* Sketch to make quick records

Year 3

We Remember - Poppies

Famous Artist Study – Vincent Van Gogh

* Experiment with the potential of various pencils

* close observation

* initial sketches as a preparation for painting

Year 4

We Remember – Poppies

Famous Artist Study – Paul Cezanne

*Identify and draw the effect of light

*scale and proportion

* Work on a variety of scales

* computer generated drawings

* accurate drawings of whole people including proportion and placement

Year 5

We Remember – Poppies

Famous Artist Study – Annie O’Brian Gonzales

*Understand the effect of light on objects and people from different directions

* interpret the texture of a surface

*Understand the  concept of perspective

* produce increasingly accurate drawings/sketches of people

Year 6

We Remember – Poppies

Famous Artist Study - Georgia O’Keefe

* Understand and use the effect of light on objects and people from different directions

* interpret the texture of a surface with increasing accuracy

* Understand the concept of perspective and be able to explain this