In Puffins Class children are taught to:

• develop their techniques
• develop their control and their use of materials
• use techniques and  materials with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design
• create sketchbooks to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
• improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials (e.g. pencil, charcoal, paint, clay)
• to consider and appreciate the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers
• to describe differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines
• to make links between different practices and disciplines and their work

Children are taught to improve their knowledge and practise their skills in:

• Architecture
• Printing
• Collage
• Landscape painting - Welsh landscape farmlands (local artist study)
• Human impact collage
• Sculpture

Children will explore the use of technical elements:

• Line and shape
• Colour and Shape
• Tone, shape and colour
• Precision cutting and graphic design
• Line, shape and form

To support childrens' development they study the works of the following artists:

• Zaha Hadid – ‘The World’
• William Morris – ‘The Strawberry Thief’
• Henri Matisse – ‘The Sorrows of the King’
• Kyffin Williams – ‘Mountains Snowdonia’, ‘Snowdon’ & ‘ Cloudy Day in Snowdonia’
• Sarah Eiseniohr – ‘Preserve’ & ‘Settlers’
• Henry Moore – ‘Family Group’
• Haida Art - Totem poles / Art as family history