Stage 3 & Stage 4
Providing full curriculum coverage for Stage 3 & Stage 4 Art and design. Developing pupils' skills and knowledge across four key areas: Drawing, Painting and Mixed Media, Sculpture and 3D and Craft and Design.
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Useful resources for teaching Art and design
Choose your unit - Stage 3 and Stage 4
Stage 3
Developing an understanding of shading and drawing techniques to create botanical inspired drawings.
Discovering how and why our ancient ancestors made art, experimenting with natural materials to make homemade paints and playing with scale to paint on a range of surfaces.
Exploring how shapes and negative spaces can be represented by three-dimensional forms. Manipulating a range of materials, children learn ways to join and create free-standing structures inspired by the work of Anthony Caro.
Developing design and craft skills taking inspiration from Ancient Egyptian art and pattern and paper making.
Stage 4
Using mechanical engravings as a starting point, pupils develop an awareness of proportion, composition and pattern in drawing and combine media for effect when developing a drawing into a print.
Developing skills in colour mixing, focusing on using tints and shades to create a 3D effect. Experimenting with composition and applying painting techniques to a personal still life piece.
Exploring how different materials can be shaped and joined and learning about techniques used by artists as diverse as Barbara Hepworth and Sokari Douglas-Camp, children create their own sculptures.
Using the flora and fauna of tropical rainforests as a starting point, children develop drawings through experimentation and textile-based techniques to design a repeating pattern suitable for fabric.
