Visual Art 

  Visual Arts

In Foundation, students continued their creative journey through hands-on experiences with cutting, gluing, and exploring colours. They developed their fine motor skills while experimenting with different materials to create simple collages and artworks. Through playful exploration, students discover how colours can express feelings and ideas, laying the groundwork for confident artistic expression and visual storytelling.

Foundation Student Comments:

• “I liked mixing colours.”
• “My art made me feel happy because I used all my favourite colours.”
• “I learned how to cut, glue and paint a house and garden picture.”
• “I had lots of fun”
• “It is my house”

Year 1 and 2 

Students explore imaginative ways to express themselves through drawing, cutting and glueing. They arranged cut paper onto a background that tells a story.

Student Comments:

• “I enjoyed making art today”
• “I love art”
• “I like how my picture fits on the background page”
• “I liked glueing my house together.”
• “Can you show everyone my picture"

Year 3 and 4 

Students deepen their artistic practice through neurographic art and expressive figure painting using watercolour. They explore the colour and linework to create abstract neurographic pieces. 

Through figure painting, students refined their understanding of proportion and movement using watercolour techniques such as layering and blending. They experimented with illusion and composition, developing confidence in their creative choices and visual storytelling.

Student Comments:

• “I learned how to blend colours in watercolour to make a background.”
• “Can we do this again next week?”
• “I love art time”
• “It is interesting painting a back ground first before the people”
• “I enjoyed painting people that looked real with a shadow”

Years 5–6 

Students explore the expressive qualities of colour through figure painting and background composition using watercolour. They experiment with colour mixing, layering, and brush techniques to create depth, mood, and atmosphere in their artworks. Focusing on the human figure, students develop their understanding of proportion and movement, while designing watercolour backgrounds that enhance the narrative of their compositions. This unit encourages thoughtful artistic choices and builds confidence in using watercolour as a medium for creative storytelling.

Student Comments:

• “I liked painting figures and adding backgrounds that matched the story in my artwork.”
• “Using watercolour was challenging but fun”
• “Creating the background first made me think more about different ways I can paint”