Art
Curriculum Intent
At Stockton Wood Primary School, we value Art and Design as an important part of our provision to broaden pupils’ opportunities and experiences offering a range of Arts and culture to enjoy, inspire and engage children. Our Art and Design curriculum has been designed and sequenced so that the children build upon their skills and knowledge taught from EYFS to Year 6
Art and Design provides the children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, creativity, thoughts and ideas. Our art curriculum engages, inspires and challenges pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. Each year, as the pupils progress and their artistic skills develop, they develop their ability to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. We ensure we make meaningful links to other areas of the curriculum, in order to know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, nationally and locally. As well as, contributing to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
Aims
At Stockton Wood, we explore and expand the national curriculum for art and design. With the aims to ensure that all pupils:
Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
Curriculum Implementation
The teaching and implementation of the Art and Design Curriculum at Stockton Wood Primary School is based on the National Curriculum and linked to topics to ensure a well-structured approach to this creative subject. The children are taught Art through their termly Art Week. In Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, throughout the year the children we take part in a drawing, painting and sculpture unit. More detail can be found in our Long-Term plan. The work of famous local, national and international artists are explored to enhance the children’s learning.
Early Years Foundation Stage Pupils explore and use a variety of media and materials through a combination of child initiated and adult directed activities. They have opportunities to explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture and form. Giving children the opportunity to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through art.
Key stage 1 Pupils are taught:
To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
Key stage 2 Pupils are taught:
To develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design. Pupils are taught:
To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
About great artists, architects and designers in history.
Curriculum Impact
Ongoing assessments take place throughout the year. Teachers give feedback and support to pupils during art week lessons, orally and through their sketchbooks. We use this information to inform future lessons; ensuring children are supported and challenged appropriately. Children revisit their art knowledge through a Friday retrieval quiz. Children in Foundation Stage are assessed within Expressive Arts and Design and their progress is tracked.
Art and Design Curriculum Overview 2025-26
Art Chatter
Easter Fun
Reception has had fun celebrating Easter. We have made Easter cards, bunny ears and had an Easter egg hunt.
Year 3 Art Week
3McK have enjoyed drawing this art week. We studied the artist Keith Haring and created artwork inspired by him. We used coloured card and pastels to make our work pop!
Stay and Learn
Thank you to everyone who came to stay and learn. The children have enjoyed showing their adults our learning in reception.
IT’S NOT A BOX!
Mr Boyd surprised us with another huge box! So after a quick read of one of our favourite books, and lots of ideas of what we could turn the box into…we decided on a magic elevator that changed you into whatever you wanted to be! The children suggested a police officer, a doctor, a fox, even the gruffalo! We took it outside and worked our magic on the outside making it even more exciting.
Year 3 Art
Year 3 enjoyed using their drawing and painting skills to make some Mothers Day cards.
Mark making – gross motor skills
This afternoon, we are building our gross motor skills. We want to be wonderful writers, so we need to build our larger muscles (like our arms sand shoulders), before we can build our smaller muscles (like our fingers). So we wrapped our tables in paper, lay on our backs and got creative!
Chinese New Year
This week Reception is exploring Chinese New Year. We have made Chinese temples in our construction area, made Chinese lanterns and made Chinese dragons.
Valentines Day Printing
We used felt pens to create a colourful picture on tin foil, then sprayed water to mix the colours before printing on to our paper…and just look at our creations! Aren’t they fantastic? We can’t wait to give these to our families ❤️
LGBTQ+ History Month
Year 3 have been reading Julian is a Mermaid by Jessica Love. We talked about how Julian’s nan allowed him to be whatever he wanted to be and we then drew what we would like to be.
Making tracks in paint
We had great fun rolling our cars and trains through the paint to create tracks! We noticed that some of the paint started to mix, so we had some great discussions about colour mixing and how we could create tracks in a particular colour!
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Stay and Learn
Reception had fun showing their adults our learning. Today we focused on children’s mental health. We created friendship bracelets, worry jars, worry monsters and made friendship cards.
Year 6 Data Art Project
6M had the best day at Liverpool ACC creating artwork linked to data collected about the lives of those living in Merseyside.
Together we created a large, walkable labyrinth, using colours, artwork and 3D objects that represent well-being data from the Liverpool City Region.
The children thoroughly enjoyed the event and represented our school beautifully.
”I really enjoyed being responsible for an area and working together as a team.” D
Other children enjoyed the chance to be creative and find peace through art.
Our fabulous artist Elaine, commented on how impressed she was with the children’s enthusiasm, commitment and dedication. She particularly noted that 6M were inspiring.
The festival of Data is a free event, that is running this weekend, if you would like to attend with your family and see all of our hard work.
Year 6 Data Art Project
Year 6 have had a fantastic day at the Liverpool ACC producing artwork with different artists linked to data about their lives. 6B created a way finder pole and used handmade felted symbols to represent the information.
People Who Help Us
This week Reception are exploring people who help us. We have discussed police men and women, fire men and women, doctors, dentists, nurses, teachers and shop assistants. We have also discussed what we would like to be when we grow up!
The Three Little Pigs
Mr Boyd surprised us with some huge boxes, so we did what we do best…we turned them into something really fun! We have been learning about the three little pigs story, and so Mrs Sefton got to work and with the help of the children, we created the 3rd little pigs house of bricks! 🧱 The children loved retelling the story together
Yolanda King
This week Reception are exploring the African American author Yolanda King. Today we have read her book Curlilocks and the Sleepy Giant.
We are exploring; African instruments in our investigation area, friendships by making friendship bracelets, feelings and emotions by making a feeling monster for the Sleepy Giant and African animals in our construction area. We are also discussing how we are the same and different to each other and how we can treat everyone kindly.
Supertato
This week Reception have been exploring Supertato. We have become super hero’s to save the fruit and vegetables from Evil Pea.
Winter
This week Reception have been exploring the season Winter. We have explored different winter animals and artic animals. We have also discussed what winter clothes we wear to stay warm.
Christmas activities
3McK enjoyed making their Christmas cards and calendars today using paint and watercolours!
Christmas Card and Calendar
We enjoyed practising our painting skills while making our Christmas Cards and Calendars today.
Christmas Crafts 🎄
We have been making lots of different crafts for Christmas. We made calendars, cards, reindeer dust, snow globes, and stockings. We had lots of fun using our imagination and creativity while making these crafts.
Art Week!
During Art Week, we used the story Star in a Jar to create our own jars filled with things that are special and precious to us. We spent time thinking carefully about what mattered most and why we chose each item. Through lots of thoughtful discussions, we shared our ideas and listened to others explain what made their choices meaningful. This helped us understand that everyone values different things and that our stories are important.
Hanukkah
This week, we have been learning all about the Jewish festival of light – Hanukkah! We learned all about the menorah, and how each day, a new candle is lit using the special candle in the middle (the shamash). We had fun counting the candles on our own Menorah, and even printed one to take home, being careful to count exactly 9 candles. 🕯️ 🕎
Maths Party Day Winner.
Well done to our Year 4 pupil for winning Liverpool’s Maths Party Day competition! Her entry has been transformed into a Rubex cube artwork by the talented artist Fai, who presented it to her in assembly today.
Christmas Decorations
Today reception have made their own Christmas decorations out of salt dough. We added salt, flour and water to a bowl. Then we mixed them together and rolled them out using a rolling pin. We used different moulds to create our own decorations.
ART week
For ART week Reception have continued their exploration of our story The Star and The Jar by Sam Hay. They created their own night sky using chalk and black card and their own jars with pictures and labels of their favourite things.
Year One – Maths and Art
Today we explored 2D Shapes and sorting them in different ways. We went on a shape hunt around our class and found lots of items in our class that were 2D shapes. We then used our collage skills and created 2D shape robots.
Art Week
Art week continues…our driver text this half term is ’The Elves and the Shoemaker’ so we decided to collage some shoe templates! Spreading the glue was a little messy, but we are learning, so mess is okay! We talked about the colours that we were using.
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Art week
We used different materials to make marks – felt pens, crayons, pencils, graphite, chalk…then we had to decide which one we preferred and talk about why.
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Art week
The children loved taking their pens for a walk…and we gave our core muscles a bit of a workout and lay on our tummies! It was so much fun!
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Art Week
3McK have been painting this week with a focus on the first artists. They experimented with tinting and toning using watercolours, created a colour wheel, drew and painted a woolly mammoth and finally created fossil prints using clay and shells.
Year One – Art Week
We’ve had a great week exploring mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. We thoroughly enjoyed reading ‘Mix it up!’ By Herve Tullet and have explored printing using a range of objects. Look at the wonderful Teddy Bears we have created using our printing and collage skills.
Art Week
This week in Art, 3M focused on the first artists. They experimented with tinting and toning using watercolours, created a colour wheel, drew and painted a woolly mammoth and finally created fossil prints using clay and shells.
Hanukkah
This week Reception have been learning all about the Jewish celebration Hanukkah. We made our own menorahs and potato latkes. To make the menorahs we cut a paper plate in half and painted it gold with a big paintbrush.
To make our potato latkes we mashed the potatoes and grated the onions. Then we mixed the flour and salt into the mixture.
Sketching in Church
This morning, all of Year 4 went to visit All Saints church. We learnt all about the symbols used in a a church. We then had some time sketching: the stain glass window, the cross, nativity, cup and bowl and nativity candle.
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Art week in year 5
This week we started art week, looking at the work of Martin Impey (an illustrator who drew the images for Where we once stood). We have we been focusing on space this term which links to Martin’s work who was inspired by the moon landings.
Art Week
Our first art week activity: sketching shoes! Our driver text this half term is The Elves and the Shoemaker, so we decided to try sketching our shoes, just like a shoemaker would when they were designing them. We looked closely at the details and shapes we could see.
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More repeating patterns
We further consolidated our learning about patterns, and printed some using cotton reels. This proved trickier than we thought, as we had to really concentrate on which reel we were picking up. Some children then even recreated their own patterns in provision independently!
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RE
This week in RE reception have explored the Nativity Story. They have created Christmas cards which show the Nativity scene. Reception used pencils, coloured pencils and card.
Children in Need 2025
We have had a lovely start to Pudsey day! We have done some PE with Joe Wicks and Pudsey, and have enjoyed some printing – Pudsey’s eye patch was missing its spots!
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Remembrance Day
Nursery paid our respects to the brave soldiers today at 11am. We made our own poppies using our handprints, and talked about what the poppies represented. We will remember them ❤️
Remembrance Day
Today Reception have learnt all about Remembrance Day and the poppy. We have made our own poppy fields to remember all the men and women who have fought in wars to keep us safe.
Using apples, paint and card we printed poppies onto card.
Bonfire Night
This week, we have been learning about Bonfire Night. We watched videos of fireworks and used our voices and bodies to copy their movements and sounds. Then we had fun making our own fireworks picture! The children enjoyed splattering glue and sprinkling glitter, making their fireworks sparkle!
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Children’s University
This week, we enjoyed taking part in a Children’s University zoom focusing on Art Skills.
Maths Party Day
We had a great Maths Party Day in 3McK! We enjoyed our zoom where we got to speak to an artist who uses Rubik’s Cubes! We also completed a fun activity on the timeline of Liverpool’s railway system!
Diya Lamps 🪔
For Divali, the festival of light, we made our own diya lamps! We had lots of fun decorating them with bright colours like red, gold, blue, and green. We used paint, glitter, and stickers to make them look beautiful. Our lamps looked so shiny and colourful when they were finished. We learned that diya lamps are used to bring light and happiness during Divali. It was a fun and special activity in Reception!
Autumn colour drop
We built an autumn tree using sticks and branches, and then created our own autumnal leaves by dropping different colours onto our cotton pad leaves! The children made links to our autumn walk, and discussed the different colours we could use. We found it tricky to draw the coloured water up into the pipettes but with some practise, we did it!
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Self portraits 🪞
We have been working very hard to draw our self portraits ✏️. We used mirrors to help us with our drawings. We know that every self portrait will be different as we are all unique.
Kapla Day
5H enjoyed adding to the amazing Kapla structure in the hall yesterday. We created the train on the bridge.
Welcome to 5H
It’s been a week since the start of the new school year and year 5 have settled in well. We’ve already delved straight into our curriculum and are having lots of fun learning.
Year One
Year One have enjoyed the return to school and seeing all of their friends again. They have been sharing their summer news, taking turns when playing, practising counting skills and creating self portraits!
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Self – portraits
The children worked really hard this afternoon drawing self portraits, they thought about line, proportion and detail.
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Bastille Day
Year 3 learned about Bastille Day yesterday, it is a French holiday which celebrates freedom throughout France. We celebrated the curriculum we have learnt this year and had a special lunch!
Art Week
Year 3 enjoyed planning, sculpting and painting their clay faces. They worked really hard with adding features and showing an emotion.
Art Week!
We have loved making clay faces for art week! We have used our sculpting skills to make a mixture of stand up and flat faces!
Art week – painting results
Our watercolour paintings in the style of Frida Kahlo, have turned out beautifully!
Year 4 ~Watercolours
Here are our final pieces, we used our watercolours skills to create beautiful fish.
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Art week
5H enjoyed art week last week. Painting self portraits of Frida Kahlo. It was great to see the focus and attention to detail on the children’s faces.
Y6 Art
We have been looking at inspirational architecture. Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect, artist and designer. She designed the iconic Heydar Aliyev Centre in Azerbaijan which is famous for its distinctive flowing, curved style. We studied wavy lines and we upscaled a picture of her famous building.
Art week – Painting!
This week we have been painting in year 5.
We have studied the artist Frida Kahlo and painted portraits that incorporate her vibrant style, taking influence from Frida to create a colour contrast.
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have been researching the artist, David Hockney and finding out about his work. They have started to draw their own landscape in the style of one of his paintings, Garrowby Hill.
Art Week🎨
This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have made a super start to art week – they have been colour mixing to make different shades and tones of red and yellow.
Painting ~ Year 4
On Monday we started art week by using watercolours to mix secondary and tertiary colours.
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ART WEEK
Year 4 used their knowledge of primary colours to complete the first Art lesson of the week.
Art Week – Year One
Wonderful start to ‘Art Week’ in Year One. Our focus this week is drawing and we have completed a ‘Draw with Rob’ warm up, explored mark making and produced a lovely sketch of our outdoor area.
Art Week
We started art week off by creating a garden picture with marks responding to movement.
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Art
Class 6MR have been finding out about an incredible architect called Zaha Hadid. She designed the most amazing buildings and we discovered that she designed some funky looking shoes as well! Not sure we’d be able to walk in them though 😂
Pixel Art
A great first lesson of our new unit, the children did a great job designing pixel art using pen and paper.
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Art Week🎨
This week we have been artists. We have made our very own superhero town using water paints. We even had to use out cutting and sticking skills to make the buildings. We had lots of fun! 🖌️
Eid Al Fitr
Today we discussed the Islamic celebration of Eid Al Fitr. Then, we looked aT and discussed Islamic art. Finally we created our own work inspired by Islamic Art.
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Year 6- Art work
6B enjoyed creating wild meadows scenes using different sketching techniques.
Art Week
Year 3 have been drawing in the style of Keith Haring. We have explored different types of shading and worked with oil pastels.
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday to all our lovely Mums, Aunties, Grandmas and Carers. Thank you for all you do!
Year 5 Art
5M are working hard to use primary colours to paint the totem poles we made last week. We’re really happy with the finished product.
ART Week 🎨🖌️
Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!
Wire Trees
Last week, we created wire tree sculptures. We twisted the wire to secure a trunk base, then added branches and beads.
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Art week – clay sculptures
5M have made cross-curricular links between Art and Geography this week – learning about Totem Poles and then designing and sculpting our own.
We haven’t quite finished our sculptures yet, so watch this space for the end results.
Year 2 Art
This week was art week, we created sculptures using paper folding and cutting techniques. We learnt what a sculpture is and thought of ways to improve our creations.
Art Week 5H
This week we have been making Totem Poles in Art, linked to our North America topic in Geography.
Art Week!
This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.
Art- clay
Today we were so lucky, we got to work with an artist to make a tile with tress and buildings on. Finally we made our mouse to go on it. We have learnt so many new skills during our lesson and mostly importantly had fun.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
In reception we have been making our very own superhero’s for Art Week! We have used scissors, glue, card and sticks to make them.
SKETCHING
What a lovely Art lesson in the sun! 4D enjoyed sketching real life objects.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
For Art week reception have been exploring Spring animals. We used cotton wool, glue and paint to make a chick or a lamb.
This morning we have sketching trees in real life. We’ve been thinking about shape, form, shadow and detail.
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Year 5 Art week – Sculpture
We started our Art week with a drawing from memory warm up and then drawing with shade and detail.
Drawing with shade and detail
In Year 4, we have started Art Week by experimenting with a range of sketching pencils. We then used a view finder to draw sections of ‘Tiger in a Tropic Storm’.
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Some of our book covers
We wrote a character description for the ‘Wild Things’ and drew them.
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