Assessment Guidelines Year 2

Investigating and Making

Record Responses:                

Record, with confidence, what they observe, experience and imagine in a variety of ways.

Gather Resources and Materials:            

Select, sort and use visual sources in a sketchbook, when appropriate - as source material for their work.

Explore and use Media  (skills & elements)   

Line and Tone

Begins to create more realistic/natural images of people/objects.                                   

Creates images, demonstrating an increasing level of attention to baselines - e.g.  a portrait clearly showing the nose starting from the inside corner of the eye.

Creates images expressing ideas/feelings.

Understands and can use contrast tone - i.e.  attempts to create shadows in their images using black, dark grey, light grey and white.

Talk about line and tone and their use of line and tone in their work.

Colour

Understand that Red, Blue and Yellow are primary colours.

Use primary colours to create secondary colours.

Use colour mixing to complete colour matching exercises.

Create self-made colours and give the new colour a name  -  e.g. chocolate brown.

Talk about colour and their use of colour in their own work. 

Pattern                       

Experiment with different mediums and print making tools to create a                         design print  -  i.e.  create a design for say, a piece of wallpaper, or a                         design and create a simple block print.

  Create an impression print.    

Create a print from a painting pattern.                                      

Create simple sewing patterns - i.e.  running stitch, hem stitch, cross stitch and dot stitch.

Talk about pattern and their use of pattern in their own work.

Texture                      

Sort natural/made materials according to colour, pattern,  shape and texture.  Talk about their choices.

Select and use different materials or textured mediums to create a colour collage'.

Select and use different mediums to take rubbings of textured surfaces. 

Imitate these rubbings using freehand line drawing.  Talk about the images created.

Talk about texture and their use of texture in their own work.

Shape, Form and Space

Recognise, sort and match basic 3D shapes - i.e.  cube, cuboid, sphere, triangular prism,  cone.

Design and create a simple 2D image using geometric shapes in different sizes and colours.

Use papier mache, clay and soft wax to create 3D models.

  Create simple replica designs of simply shaped buildings, ships and furniture.  Construct a design using lego.

Select and use 'mixed media materials'  to create a simple sculpture.

Talk about shape, form and space and their use of shape, form and space in their own work.

Review and Modify

Review their work, describing what they might change or develop in future work  -  e.g.  'I used these stamps to make my wallpaper pattern. 

Could I start again?  I want to use this lolly stick and sponge

Knowledge and Understanding

Develop Understanding

Describe and compare works of art, craft and design in simple terms, recognising simple differences in method and approach  -  e.g.  in   response to Monet -  'This painting looks a bit like Van Gogh's but it looks more real.  The shapes are really clear and the colours match real trees, flowers etc'.

Respond to and Evaluate

Respond confidently to ideas, methods or approaches, making links with their own work - e.g.  in response to a study of landscapes  'I think     I'll draw my landscape in pencil and use watery colours like this Monet picture'.

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