Assessment Guidelines Year 1
Investigating
& Making
Record
Record, with
increasing confidence, what they observe, experience and imagine in
a variety of ways.
Gather
Resources
Use sketchbooks as a
way of expressing/gathering ideas or practising designs
before engaging on practical tasks.
Explore
and use
Use simple shapes
repeatedly, to represent people/objects in the natural/made world.
Creates images
demonstrating an increasing level of attention to
size/proportion - e.g., the
head is not the largest part of the body.
Create images
expressing ideas/feelings.
Understands and can use contrast tone - i.e., light/lighter and dark/darker.
Talk simply about their use of line and tone.
Colour
Create new colours by
overlapping or mixing colours. Give
the new colour a name e.g.,
post box red.
Use colour in their
artwork for fun and symbolically -
i.e., blue, grey, white for
a winter sky.
Talk about their use of colour.
Pattern
Select and use
different print making tools.
Use different pattern making techniques and different materials with increasing confidence. (See P.O.S.)
Create a repeating
pattern.
Talk simply about pattern and the pattern images created.
Texture
Talk simply about the textured qualities of different papers.
Select and use various paper materials to create a collage.
Select and use
different materials/mediums to take rubbings of textured surfaces.
Talk simply about texture and the textured images created.
Shape,
Form and Space
Select and arrange different sized 2D shapes to create an image.
Use salt dough and
papier mache to create 3D models.
Construct various
forms and build representational 3D models from a variety of materials - junk
items, wooden bricks, lego, rio click.
Create a simple sculpture from natural/made materials.
Talk
simply about their use of shape, form & space.
Review
& Modify
Talk with increasing confidence about the positive/negative aspects to their artwork in simple terms - e.g., 'The tail on my model cat is too fat, should I make it thinner?'
Knowledge
and
Understanding
Develop
Understanding
With encouragement, describe works of Art, Craft & Design in simple terms - e.g., 'It looks like bits of paper have been stuck down. The shapes look like a picture of a snail'. (In response to 'The Snail' by Matisse)
Respond
to & Evaluate
Respond, with increasing confidence, to ideas, methods or approaches and begin to make links with their own work - e.g. In response to a study of Matisses' collage ideas and methods, create a simple animal collage of their own. Talk about their ideas in simple terms.