Assessment  Guidelines  Year 4/5

Investigating and Marking

Record Responses:                

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

Gather Resources and Materials:             

Collect visual and other information in a sketch book and use as source material for different purposes.

Explore and use   Media  (skills & elements)

Line and Tone

Confidently attempts to create realistic representations of more sophisticated images that they observe,  remember or imagine.

Creates images, demonstrating an increasing level of attention to detail i.e. uses a view finder to help focus on finer details and creates an image showing the more closely observed markings on people/objects.

Understand the notion of 'positive and negative images'  and create these images.

Create images expressing ideas/feelings.

Experiment confidently in using different mark making techniques (see P.O.S.)

Understand that we can identify tone - i.e.  attempt to study the lightness/darkness cast over objects/images  by squinting their eyes in order to identify tones more easily.

Understand pencil grades. 

a)  know that the H range contains the hardest, greyest pencils 

b)  know that the B range contains the softer and blacker pencils.

c)   know that the higher the number beside the H or B  the harder/greyer or softer/blacker the tone created.

Begin to use different graded pencils to create tone in their artwork.

Talk confidently about the use of line and tone and other visual elements in their own work and the work of others.

Colour                        

Understand that  'hue'  means  'the title of the colour'

Identify recognised hues of colour  -  i.e.  know that hue is a kind of colour family -  e.g.  'The Green Family'  and that different hues of Green - Emerald, Pea Green, Olive, Khaki, Sage  -  are created by including different colours to a 'true green'.

Experiment in creating hues of colour by means of colour matching exercises.

Understand that  'shade'  means  'the depth of lightness and darkness in a colour'.

Identify recognised shades of colour - i.e.  know that shades of a colour are created by mixing a colour with  different amounts of Black, White or Grey.

Experiment in creating shades of a colour.

Talk confidently about the use of colour and other visual elements in their own work and the work of others.

Pattern                       

Design and create a 'monoprint'  and  'duoprint'  using the technique of 'roller printing'

Design and create a pattern using the technique of 'Batik

Design and create a motif using the technique of  'Embroidery'

Use medium techniques such as wax and chalk to create  'positive and negative images'.  ( see P.O.S.)

Talk confidently about the use of pattern and other visual elements in their own work and the work of others.

Texture                      

Understand that 'collage'  is a French word which means 'to paste'.

Design, plan and create a collage, exploring, selecting and using a range of natural/made materials, relating  properties to purpose - i.e.  to create a desired effect  (see P.O.S.)

Understand and use the technique of 'Decoupage'.  Design and create a 'Decoupage Box'.

Talk confidently about the use of texture and other visual elements in their own work and the work of others.

Shape, Form and Space

Design and create a 2D image.  Understand and use an arrangement technique - i.e.  'Explode a shape' or  'Reflected Shapes'  or 'Tessellated Shapes'.  (see P.O.S.)

Use clay to create a 3D form.  Understand and use the technique of 'clay relief'.

Create and architectural design of room interior.  Record the desired materials and colour schemes.

Create an architectural design of the frontage of a 'dream house'  -  in response  to a study of the environment

Design and create a sculpture - in response to a theme - using wire and mod-roc. or  select a mould and create a sculpture using plaster of Paris.  Understand and use the technique of 'cashing

Talk confidently about the use of shape, form and space and other visual elements  in their own work and in the work of others.

Review and Modify

Reflect on and adapt their work in the light of what they intended.

Knowledge & Understanding

Develop Understanding

Identify similarities and differences in the  method and approach of artists, craft workers and designers.  Recognise and talk confidently.      about how  different visual elements are used for different purposes.

Respond to & Evaluate

Confidently compare the ideas, methods or approaches of artists, craft workers and designers - including those used in  different styles and   cultures.

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