This guide supports teachers and subject leaders in preparing pupils to talk clearly and confidently about their learning in your Art and design curriculum. It includes a worksheet with structured prompts and teacher guidance to help pupils reflect on what they’ve learned, recall key knowledge and skills, and recognise the progress they’ve made.
year: Year 2
Knowledge organiser: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Art and design, Year 2, Drawing: Understanding tone and texture.
This resource is designed to support children as they develop their drawing skills by exploring tone and texture. It introduces the four rules of shading and techniques for creating depth and detail using different materials such as charcoal, graphite and pastels. Featuring influential artists like Käthe Kollwitz and Max Ernst, it encourages children to experiment with mark making and understand how tone and texture can bring their drawings to life. Perfect for consolidating key knowledge, this organiser builds confidence and creativity in young artists.
Vocabulary display – Art and design Y2: Drawing: Understanding tone and texture
Vocabulary display – R&W Y2: Why is light important to people?
Vocabulary display – Science Y2: Microhabitats
Science: list of significant people studied
A document to show the scientists and other significant people who are studied through the Science scheme of work.
Knowledge organiser – R&W Y1/2 (A): How did the world begin?
A Knowledge organiser that captures the essential knowledge and skills learnt throughout the unit Religion and worldviews, Y1/2 (A), How did the world begin?
This Religion and Worldviews resource is designed to support the pupils as they explore different religious and cultural perspectives on the origins of the world. It introduces key vocabulary such as creation, belief, faith, myth, and tradition, helping the pupils understand how various worldviews explain the beginning of life. The pupils will also learn about creation stories from different religions and how these shape beliefs about the world and humanity.
Art and DT: Curriculum guide for parents and carers — mixed-age (Cycle B)
*Now updated to include our newly published Drawing units*
This version of our parent curriculum overview is for mixed-age schools that subscribe to both Art and DT and alternate between teaching Art and DT each half term, using our Art and DT Half-termly plan — mixed-age.
Art and DT: Curriculum guide for parents and carers — mixed-age (Cycle A)
*Now updated to include our newly-published Drawing units*
This version of our parent curriculum overview is for mixed-age schools that subscribe to both Art and DT and alternate between teaching Art and DT each half term, using our Art and DT Half-termly plan — mixed-age.
