Warrington School/Curriculum/Term Three/Visual Arts Achievement Objectives

Level 1 and 2

Students will:

• Share ideas about how and why their own and others’ works are made and their purpose, value, and context.
• Explore a variety of materials and tools and discover elements and selected principles.
• Investigate visual ideas in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination.
• Share the ideas, feelings, and stories communicated by their own and others’ objects and images.

Level 3 and 4

Students will:

• Investigate the purpose of objects and images from past and present cultures and identify the contexts in which they were or are made, viewed, and valued.
• Explore some art-making conventions, applying knowledge of elements and selected principles through the use of materials and processes.
• Develop and revisit visual ideas, in response to a variety of motivations, observation, and imagination, supported by the study of artists’ works.
• Describe the ideas their own and others’ objects and images communicate.
• Explore and describe ways in which meanings can be communicated and interpreted in their own and others’ work.