Development Matters

ELG

Nursery:

• Create closed shapes with continuous lines, and begin to use these shapes to represent objects.
• Draw with increasing complexity and detail, such as representing a face with a circle and including details.
• Use drawing to represent ideas like movement or loud noises.
• Show different emotions in their drawings and paintings, like happiness, sadness, fear etc
• Explore colour and colour mixing.

Reception:

• Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.
• Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.
• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources

Creating with materials

• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
• Share their creations, explaining the process they have used.

Understanding The World:

The Natural World

• Explore the natural world around them, making observations and drawing pictures of animals and plants.

Using Materials

Relevant ELG

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Hold a pencil effectively in preparation for fluent writing, using the tripod grip in almost all cases

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Hold tools like pencils, paint brushes, scissors with increasing precision
• Experiment with using different everyday and art materials to explore colour, texture and form

Drawing, Painting and Sculpture

Relevant ELG

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery

ELG: Creating with materials

• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form, and function

ELG: Self-regulation

• Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate

ELG: Managing self

• Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Begin to show accuracy and care when drawing

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• To explore their ideas and imagination by creating drawings, paintings and sculptures.
• To explore creating designs and art work on a range of scales.

Exploring Techniques

Relevant ELG

ELG: Fine motor skills

• Use a range of small tools, including scissors, paint brushes and cutlery

ELG: Creating with materials

• Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form, and function

ELG: Self-regulation

• Set and work towards simple goals, being able to wait for what they want and control their immediate impulses when appropriate

ELG: Managing self

• Be confident to try new activities and show independence, resilience and perseverance in the face of challenge

KS1 Readiness Objectives

• To explore a range of techniques to draw, paint, print and sculpt to help them create art work.

Comparing and Evaluating Work

Relevant ELG

ELG: Creating with materials

• Share their creations, explaining the process they have used

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KS1 Readiness Objectives

• Recognising and exploring the colour, patterns and shapes in other artist’s work.
• Expressing opinions and feelings in response to their own art work and other artist’s work.
• Sharing their work with other people, talking about what they have created it.