Art Year 1

Our Year 1 art curriculum provides an introduction to learning about art by exploring different artists and their work to inspire children to produce their own artwork. Pupils will begin to build their knowledge by looking, thinking and talking about art, learning about a wide variety of artists including Bruegel, Monet, Cassatt, Van Gogh, Miro, Klee, Hockney, Hepworth, and others. Pupils are given opportunities to work from observation, from their imagination, and with others, and start to evaluate and assess the success of their own work. They explore using different media, including drawing, painting, collage and 3D form.

Through the PKC, pupils begin to acquire the knowledge and skills to be able to understand basic elements in art, such as colour and line and fundamental concepts such as style. They learn about different types of art (painting, sculpture and architecture) as well as exploring different movements in art like pointillism and cubism.

The PKC art Year 1 curriculum covers:

• Colour
• Line
• Architecture
• Style in art and narrative art
• Paintings of children
• Sculpture

We equip our partner schools with the necessary resources to effectively teach the PKC Year 1 art curriculum. These resources include lesson plans, curriculum maps, subject overviews, and subject and unit rationales.

Alongside the above resources, we provide PKC art teachers with:

• Art subject knowledge resources
• Knowledge organisers for each unit
• Assessment ideas including multiple-choice quizzes
• Access to CPD training and resources
• Key vocabulary and key people databases

To gain a better understanding of our art curriculum, we encourage all art subject leaders to attend our “Dive into Art” CPD series. These sessions include six pre-recorded videos followed by a live session with our curriculum team. By attending this session you will be able to use our art curriculum with confidence in your school.