Being Creative - Responding to Experiences, Expressing and Communicating Ideas
- Make comparisons and create new connections.
- Talk about personal intentions, describing what they were trying to do.
- Respond to comments and questions, entering into dialogue about their creations.
- Express and communicate their ideas, thoughts and feelings by using a widening range of materials, suitable tools, imaginative and role-play, movement, designing and making, and a variety of songs and musical instruments.
- Respond in a variety of ways to what they see, hear, smell, touch and feel.
Exploring Media and Materials
- Explore what happens when they mix colours.
- Understand that different media can be combined to create new effects.
- Choose particular colours to use for a purpose.
- Use ideas involving fitting, overlapping, in, out, enclosure, grids and sun-like shapes.
- Work creatively on a large or small scale.
- Create constructions, collages, painting and drawings.
- Explore colour, texture, shape, form and space in two or three dimensions.
- Experiment to create different textures.
Topic Overview
Term 1
- Exploring primary/secondary colours and the colour wheel.
- Developing basic techniques in painting, printing, collage and drawing.
- Observational Drawing
- Mono printing
- 3D clay model
Term 2
- Paper/wire sculpture
- Water colour painting
- Textiles with sewing
- Mixed Media in the style of Rousseau
- Observational Drawing
- 3D clay model
Term 3
- 3D junk modelling
- Textiles collage
- Painting
- Design and decoration