Curriculum leaders
Our approach
Nursery 2+
Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Year 4
Year 5
Year 6
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11

Curriculum leaders

Head of Art

Mr D Briggs

d.briggs@kingsolomonacademy.org

Our approach

Primary

Nursery 2+

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

  • Make marks in different media using hands or making making tools. 

  • Express their own ideas in play 

  • Using everyday objects to make sounds and music

  • Mark-make showing variation in shape and form. 

  • Engage in music and movement activities. 

  • Explore sounds, songs and rhymes
Spring 1 Spring 2

  • Make marks in different media using hands or making making tools. 

  •  Express their own ideas in play 

  • Using everyday objects to make sounds and music

  • Mark-make showing variation in shape and form. 

  • Engage in music and movement activities.  

  • Explore sounds, songs and rhymes
Summer 1 Summer 2

  • Make marks in different media using hands or making making tools. 

  • Express their own ideas in play 

  • Using everyday objects to make sounds and music

  • Mark-make showing variation in shape and form. 

  • Engage in music and movement activities.  

  • Explore sounds, songs and rhymes

All Nursery 2+ subjects

Year 1

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Exploring materials

Eric Carle

Mixed media

Penguins in their landscapes

Pop up cards
Spring 1 Spring 2

Horses in motion

Mono Printing

Red riding hood

Spoon puppets
Summer 1 Summer 2

The natural world and land art

clay

Cave art

Mixed media drawing

All Year 1 subjects Next Year 1 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 2

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

People and portraits

Painting collaboratively

Picasso cubism

Abstract birds

Clay models
Spring 1 Spring 2

Wonderful women artists

Abstract mixed media

Revolting rhymes

Character puppets

Moving parts
Summer 1 Summer 2

Nautical art

Paper weaving

Calligraphy and Asian art

Ink painting

All Year 2 subjects Next Year 2 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 3

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Still Lifes

Morandi print

Fantastical landscapes

David Hockney

paint
Spring 1 Spring 2

Fantastic foxes

Fauvism

paint

Roman pots

clay
Summer 1 Summer 2

Insects and arachnoids

Relief and butterfly print

Look at me

Peg dolls in mixed media

All Year 3 subjects Next Year 3 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 4

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Take a line for a walk

Drawing in mixed medias

Mythical dragons

Textiles
Spring 1 Spring 2

Building a Viking boat

Modelling in card

Who am I?

Self portraits

Drawing in mixed media
Summer 1 Summer 2

Feline creatures

Henri Rousseau

Clay tiles

The London skyline

Stencils

Paper sculptures

All Year 4 subjects Next Year 4 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 5

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

What is Art and Design?

Examining the formal elements in art and design

 A wrinkle in time – theme: Dark vs Light
Spring 1 Spring 2
Highway man – theme: Illustration Ice trap- theme: Journey (traveling to different cultures and countries)
Summer 1 Summer 2
Private Peaceful - theme: Past (Art and Design history) Who Let the gods out - Greek Mythology

All Year 5 subjects Next Year 5 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 6

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Skellig – theme: Transformation Once - theme: Imagination
Spring 1 Spring 2
Clockwork – theme: Time Floodland- theme: The Environment
Summer 1 Summer 2
Stone Cold – theme: identity Iqbal- theme: Art and Activism

All Year 6 subjects Next Year 6 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Secondary

Year 7

Autumn 1 Autumn 2

Ancient art – marking making 

 Ancient art – print making
Spring 1 Spring 2

Medieval art – drawing from observation 

Medieval art - symbolism 
Summer 1 Summer 2

18th/19th century art – textiles 

18th/19th century art – sculpture 

All Year 7 subjects Next Year 7 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 8

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Modern art: 1900-1920 Modern art: 1900-1920
Spring 1 Spring 2
Modern art: 1920-1960 Modern art: 1920-1960
Summer 1 Summer 2
Modern art: 1960 - 1980 Modern art: 1960 - 1980

All Year 8 subjects Next Year 8 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 9

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
What is art? What is art?
Spring 1 Spring 2
What do I want to say? What do I want to say?
Summer 1 Summer 2
Art for the future Art for the future

All Year 9 subjects Next Year 9 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

Year 10

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
'Everyday’ project 'Everyday’ project
Spring 1 Spring 2
'Everyday’ project Identity Portfolio
Summer 1 Summer 2
Identity Portfolio Identity Portfolio

All Year 10 subjects Next Year 10 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages

 

Year 11

Autumn 1 Autumn 2
Identity Portfolio Identity Portfolio
Spring 1 Spring 2
Exam response Exam response
Summer 1 Summer 2
Exam response Revision

All Year 11 subjects Next Year 11 Subject - Modern Foreign Languages