Art
Art lessons at St Jérôme School are taught by two teachers mainly through the medium of French using CLIL ( Content and Language integrated learning).
Children learn about the work of famous artists from the past and present and explore their own creativity with a range of materials and techniques. We follow the Cornerstone Curriculum and the themes that the year groups work on.
In Key Stage 1 children at St Jérôme School 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.
- To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design.
- To produce creative work, exploring their ideas.
In Key Stage 2 children at St Jérôme School are taught:
- To produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences and observations in their sketchbooks and to use their books to review and revisit ideas.
- To carry on improving their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials (for example, pencil, charcoal, paint and clay).
- To keep on learning about great artists, architects and designers in history.
- To evaluate and analyse creative works including their own work using more and more the language of art, craft and design.
Children work on their sketchbooks on a regular basis to plan, experiment with new skills and to create their own work.
Children create art in our designated creative workshop, atelier créatif, which is fully equipped to support children in the art curriculum.
This room on our second floor looks out across Harrow and is bathed in light.
Art Curriculum Map
| Year Group | Michaelmas Term | Epiphany Term | Trinity Term |
| Year 1 |
Painting: Mix it! Children are taught about basic colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of primary and secondary colours and how artists use colour in their artwork. Focus: Colour theory; Colour wheel; Primary and secondary colours |
Collage: Funny faces and fabulous Features This project teaches children about the concept of the portrait and how the collage technique can be used to make a portrait. Focus: Portraiture; Collage |
Printing: Rain and Sun rays To learn about collagraph printing, including how to develop a motif to make single and repeated prints. Focus: Transient art Significant artists - Stephen Wiltshire |
| Year 2 |
Painting: Mix it colour theory Recap and reinforce what the children have learned so far on colours and colour mixing. Focus: Colour theory; Colour wheel; Primary and secondary colours |
Observational: Still Life To learn about the work of significant still life artists and still life techniques. They explore a wide variety of still lifes and learn about the use of colour and composition. They create still life arrangements and artwork. Focus: Still life; Colour study; Compositions |
Drawing: Portraits and Poses This project teaches children about portraiture. They analyse the portraits of Tudor monarchs and compare Tudor portraits and selfies today. They use photo editing software to create royal portraits. Focus: Portraiture; Royal portraits; Sketching; Digital artwork |
| Year 3 |
Painting: Colour theory This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours and analogous colours and how artists use colour in their artwork. Focus: Colour theory; Colour wheel; Tertiary colours |
Sculpture: Prehistoric Pots Children explore Bell Beaker pottery, which allows them to learn about different clay techniques. These will be used to make and decorate a Bell Beaker-style pot. Focus: Clay; Pottery techniques - pinch, coil and pattern |
Drawing: Ammonites Looking at nature and natural forms as a starting point for artwork. Demonstrating how to enhance form and texture in their drawings using techniques such as hatching, cross-hatching and shading. Focus: Shading, Tonal drawing, linear and cross-hatching, scumbling and stippling. |
| Year 4 |
Painting: Contrast and complements This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours and analogous colours, and how artists use colour in their artwork. Focus: Colour theory; Colour wheel; Warm and cool colours; Complementary colours; Analogous colours |
Weaving: Warp and Weft This project teaches children about the artform of weaving and how it has developed over time, including the materials and techniques required to create woven patterns and products. Focus: Weaving; Exploring yarns |
Landscapes: Vista Vista teaches children about the techniques that artists use when composing landscape images, such as colour and atmosphere. Focus: Landscape; Perspective Sculpture: Statues, Statuettes and Figurines This project teaches children about the 3-D representation of the human form, including statues, statuettes and figurines. They study examples from ancient civilisations, and use their clay skills to create a Sumer-style figurine. Focus: Figure drawing; Statues, statuettes and figurines; Sculptures from ancient civilisations; Clay work and sculpting Animal: Bankura horses Children learn about the historical and cultural portrayal of animals in art. They study the visual qualities of animals through sketching, printmaking and clay modelling. Focus: Significance of animals in art; Drawing; Printing, Clay sculpture Significant artists - George Stubbs, Leonardo da Vinci, Damien Hirst. |
| Year 5 |
Painting: Tints, tones and shades This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and exploring mixing tints, shades and tones. They learn about significant landscape artworks and features of landscapes before using this knowledge to create landscape paintings. Focus: Colour theory; Colour wheel; Mixing tints, shades and tones; Landscapes Sculpture: Taoties This project teaches children about the significance and art of the taotie motif, including ancient and contemporary casting methods. Focus: Taotie motifs; Casting methods; Watercolour |
Line, Light and Shadows This project teaches children about the visual qualities of line, light and shadow. They are introduced to a range of shading techniques. They take black and white photographs and use pencil, pen and ink wash to reimagine their photographs in a shaded drawing. Focus: Continuous line drawing; Shading techniques; Drawing on black paper; Black and white photography Artists: Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt |
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| Year 6 |
Painting: Tints, tones and shades Colour theory recap by studying the colour wheel and exploring mixing tints, shades and tones. They learn about significant landscape artworks and features of landscapes before using this knowledge to create landscape paintings using aquarelles. Focus: Theory; Colour wheel; Mixing tints, shades and tones; Landscapes |
Trailblazers Barrier Breakers This project teaches children about significant black artists and their work, and provides opportunities to analyse and create artwork inspired by them. Significant artists - Edmonia Lewis, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Chris Ofili |
Abstract: Distortion and Abstraction Children learn the concepts of abstraction and distortion. They study the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting. Focus: Abstract art; Abstraction by line, colour and shape Significant artists - Pablo Picasso, Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay; Orphism |
Useful Links to Support Learning
We encourage our families to take their children to see works of Art in galleries in London.
Why not start visiting and exploring one of these sites:
