Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Years 1 and 2

Fire, fire!

Collage (layering colourful tissue paper under silhouette of burning building)

Media, tear, fold, cut, curl

Our Town (Local adventure)

Drawing (sketch an area of the town)

Hatching, cross-hatching, shading, horizontal, vertical

Into the Woods!

Printing (use ‘Into the Forest’ images of black and white and the character in colour to contrast)

Repeating pattern, stencil, roller, mono print, relief print, layers

Study of National Fairy Tales (National adventure)

All about Orang-utan’s/Rainforests

Here we are (Global adventure)

Years 3 and 4

The Terrible Tudors

Collage (create a self-portrait with child’s photo added in middle)

Collage of Henry VIII

Crumple, overlap, arrange, positive space, negative space

Our local library (Local adventure)

Sculpture (recycle newspapers to make 3D flowers)

Malleable, manipulate, scratch/score, glaze

The Stone Age

Painting (create a stone age painting)

Complimentary/contrasting, tones, hot/cold colours

Town is by the sea (National adventure)

Sculpture (sculptures in the sand)

Manipulate, malleable, scratch/score

Blue Abyss

Printing (create silhouettes of things found deep within the ocean and paint layers of the ocean in different shades of blue)

Anthony Gormley – Another Place; Batik art; Printing; Famous seascapes

Lino print, rubbings, design

Clean Water and Sanitation (Global adventure)

Years 5 and 6

Romans

Rugeley Miners (Local adventure)

Drawing (use different medias including charcoal)

Light and shadow, perspective, reflection, realistic, impressionistic

Mexico

Sports Relief (National adventure)

Inventions

Deforestation (Global adventure)

Collage (using layers of card/paper, create a framed picture if animals/ rainforest)

Composition, organic shape, geometric shape

Autumn 1

Autumn 2

Spring 1

Spring 2

Summer 1

Summer 2

Years 1 and 2

The Victorians

Printing (wallpaper to go inside their own Victorian room)

Repeating pattern, stencil, roller, mono print, relief print, layers

Our School (Local adventure)

Collage (make a collage of natural objects from around the school e.g. forest school)

Media, tear, fold, cut, curl

All About Chocolate!

Bright Lights, Big Cities (National adventure)

Growing Up

Drawing (portraits)

Hatching, cross-hatching, shading, horizontal, vertical

At the seaside, beach pollution (Global adventure)

Painting (lighthouse)

Primary/secondary colours, lighter shade, darker shade, colour mixing

Years 3 and 4

Egyptians

Etching hill Rock (Local adventure)

Drawing (go to Etching hill rock and sketch)

Contour hatching, stippling, scumbling, tone, texture, tonal scale

Oh, the Places You’ll Go (Places in Europe)

St. George and the Dragon (National adventure)

Misty Mountains

Painting (watercolour painting of mountain landscape/ranges)

Complimentary/contrasting, tones, hot/cold colours

Climate Action (Global adventure)

Years 5 and 6

Battles of Britain

Use artist Paul Nash as inspiration to create his or her own watercolour painting.

Evoke feeling, brushstrokes, movement

The use of Cannock Chase during WW1(Local adventure)

The Ancient Greeks

Sculpture (create a Greek vase e.g. pottery)

Slabs, coils, slips, relief, kiln, additive, subtractive

Shakespeare Week

(National adventure)

Forces of Nature

Painting/ charcoal/ collage (create a before and after image of a natural disaster e.g. a tornado or wildfire. Children to choose which media they want)

Painting - evoke feeling, brushstrokes, movement

Charcoal - light and shadow, perspective, reflection, realistic, impressionistic,

Collage - composition, organic shape, geometric shape

Sustainability and Recycling (Global adventure)