Art and design at key stage 1
The National Curriculum is statutory in all maintained, mainstream schools up to and including key stage 4. An appropriate version of the curriculum is used in maintained special schools. Key Stage 1 (KS1) covers years 1-2, children aged 5-7.
Successful inclusion of disabled children depends on the attitude of the school, the teacher and the other pupils. It is essential that non-disabled children understand the need for tolerance of everyone, whatever their abilities. This acceptance of other children’s differences will not happen by chance: it needs to underpin everything the school says and does.
Many children who have one impairment will also have another, so that the one with the most impact needs to be considered first.
In art and design at KS1, children work in the following areas of knowledge, skills and understanding:
Exploring and developing ideas
Recording from first-hand observation, experience and imagination, and exploring ideas.
Investigating and making art, craft and design
Investigating the possibilities for a range of materials and processes; trying out tools and techniques and applying these to a range of materials and processes, including drawing; representing observations, ideas and feelings, and designing and making images and artefacts.
Evaluating and developing work
Reviewing what they and others have done and saying what they think and feel about it; identifying what they might change in their current work or develop in their future work.
Knowledge and understanding
Learning about visual and tactile elements; colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape and form and space; materials and processes used in making art, craft and design; differences and similarities in the work of artists, craftspeople and designers in different times and cultures such as sculptors, photographers, architects and textile designers.
During KS1 pupils develop their creativity and imagination by exploring the visual, tactile and sensory qualities of materials and processes. They learn about the role of art, craft and design in their environment. They begin to understand colour, shape, space, pattern and texture and use them to represent their feelings.
These pages show the challenges that disabled children may face in art and design and what you can do to lessen the impact. Read all sections in conjunction with the general advice that applies across subjects and the information on P levels 4-8 for art and design.
- Autism spectrum disorder focussing on Asperger’s syndrome
- Physical impairment
- Visual impairment
- Hearing impairment
- Dyslexia
- Communication difficulties
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