Art

Autumn 1 Feedback

We started our session today by joining up with a child from a different key stage and sharing our sketchbooks and explaining what we have been learning about and what our favourite piece of work was. Children were able to articulate their learning and their love of art.

We then had a discussion about what has gone well in our art units and what we would like to get better.

WWW

• Using lots of different equipment and media to draw.
• Having more time to focus on our drawing skills
• Getting to practice shading techniques throughout our unit
• Finding out about interesting artists
• Having more choice and freedom in what we did

EBI

• Having more opportunities to paint
• Getting to work in different styles

We ended the session by having a discussion about our key vocabulary and artists. All year groups could share the name of at least one artist that they have looked at this year. Children were able to share key vocabulary and attempted to explain this. There was a clear progression throughout school on children’s level of vocabulary. Year 5 and 6 were able to name and discuss the formal elements that linked to their units.

Autumn 2 Feedback

Children shared what they have learnt in art this year. They were able to explain what they did and used their sketchbooks to discuss their artists and share some of the skills that they developed. Children loved getting to show off their favourite pieces of artwork!

WWW:

Y1 – We love getting to work with paint to create different pieces of art. We also love getting to draw.

Y2 – We loved getting to print and it makes us want to do more printing. We also love getting to work with lots of different colours.

Y3 – We love getting to do draw with different media including charcoal and pens. We like sketching lots of different things, and the printing is interesting because we get to see how our prints create an image over and over again. We love getting to be creative.

Y4 – We like getting to sketch with different colours. Our sketches in pastels look really vibrant and we like how it brightens our pictures.

Y5 – We like getting to work with different aspects of art such as making a sculpture. I loved that our sculptures were unique and different. We love how we learn about multiple artists so that we can compare their artwork. We love getting to work with different gradients of pencils because it let us use more tone in our sketches. This shading lets us work in more colours. We also liked getting to retrieve our skills in retrieval sessions.

Y6 – We like learning about the different artists so we can find out about them and their styles. This means they can inspire our artwork. We like getting to work with different media like pastels because then we can smudge them for detail. We like learning about the shading so that we can make things more realistic.

EBI:

• Working with different sculpture materials (wood)
• Developing shading skills in different media
• Using water colour pencils more
• More time to draw (including with more colours)
• Finding out more about artist’s lives
• Working on a bigger scale