Unit outcomes
Pupils who are secure will be able to:
- Give an opinion about whether an activity counts as ‘art’.
- Listen attentively to a visitor describing their creative interests.
- Draw and talk about a remembered experience of making something creative.
- Independently choose and measure lengths of wool and join wool sections together.
- Adjust their wrapping technique if something doesn’t work well.
- Show that they are selecting colours thoughtfully.
- Be open to trying out a new skill.
- Show that they are choosing materials based on colour, thickness and flexibility.
- Show resilience and keep going when things don’t go right the first time.
- Join in with looking for key features of Cecilia Vicuña’s work (knots, plaits, weaving etc).
- Weave with paper, achieving a mostly accurate pattern of alternating strips.
- Describe their own weaving and compare it to Vicuna’s artwork.
- Attach things securely to their box loom.
- Remember the process needed for weaving and attach some elements in this way.
- Discuss the choices they make and what they like about their finished work.
Suggested prior learning
Craft and design: Let’s get crafty
Get startedLessons
Lesson 1: Is it art?
Lesson 2: Wool wrapping
Lesson 3: Exploring thread
Lesson 4: Warp and weft
Lesson 5: Fibre art
Key skills
Generating ideas:
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Key knowledge
Formal elements:
- Form:
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Key vocabulary
art
artist
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Unit resources
Assessment – Art and design Y1: Craft and design
Assessment resources for this unit. Use
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Knowledge organiser: Art and design – Y1 Craft and design
Aimed at pupils, a visual summary
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Key vocabulary
Subject resources
Art and design: Long-term plans
A suggested order for teaching Art
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National curriculum mapping
This document maps the National curriculum
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Assessment
A spreadsheet for recording teacher assessments
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Key vocabulary
This document lists the new vocabulary
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Equipment list
A checklist of art equipment required
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Art and design – List of artists
This document lists the artists studied
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Cross-curricular opportunities
English
Spoken language