Explanatory notes
During key stage 1 pupils develop their creativity and imagination by exploring the visual, tactile and sensory qualities of materials and processes. They learn about the role of art, craft and design in their environment. They begin to understand colour, shape and space and pattern and texture and use them to represent their ideas and feelings.
Note
The general teaching requirement for health and safety applies in this subject.
Knowledge, skills and understanding
Exploring and developing ideas
1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. Pupils should be taught about:
- 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].
Explanatory notes
Note for 1b
Cross reference to English
En1 Speaking and listening: Listening
2. To listen, understand and respond to others, pupils should be taught to:
c. make relevant comments
d. listen to others' reactions
En1 Speaking and listening: Group discussion and interaction
3. To join in as members of a group, pupils should be taught to:
d. extend their ideas in the light of discussion
Note for 2b
Cross reference to design and technology
Working with tools, equipment, materials and components to make quality products
2. Pupils should be taught to:
c. measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials
Note for 3a
Cross reference to English
En1 Speaking and listening: Group discussion and interaction
3. To join in as members of a group, pupils should be taught to:
c. take different views into account
d. extend their ideas in the light of discussion
Note for 4a
Cross reference to mathematics
Ma3 Shape, space and measures: Understanding patterns and properties of shape
2. Pupils should be taught to:
a. describe properties of shapes that they can see or visualise using the related vocabulary
c. create 2-D shapes and 3-D shapes
d. recognise reflective symmetry in familiar 2-D shapes and patterns
ICT opportunity
Pupils could use 'paint' software to explore shape, colour and pattern
Breadth of study
5. 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, print making, 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].
This content relates to the 1999 programmes of study and attainment targets.