Art & Design

Intent:

We strive to teach a broad and balanced art curriculum, which provides the children with exciting prospects to express themselves whilst simultaneously developing their art and design skills and knowledge. Through our art curriculum, we would like to develop children’s confidence on experimenting with art and making this individualised, rather than an emphasis on perfection or a uniform outcome.

Our subject intent is to:

Provide a rich environment in which we encourage our children to communicate through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern and materials. Investigating lines, shapes, colours and textures help our children with the basics and enable other work such as 3D and printing to happen.
Provide opportunities for children to produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
Make opportunities for the children to become part of school projects that include paint and craft that contribute to the school environment
Encourage children to evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design, as well as doing this to their own and peer’s work.
Teach about modern and historical great artists, craft makers and designers, and participate in projects that are inspired by a variety of these.
Always to maintain high expectations of pupil’s abilities, allowing children autonomy over their art journey so that they can learn and grow.
Encourage confidence and evaluative skills so that the children can become independent on their own artistic journey.
Ensure art is accessible and ambitious for all pupils, including those who are disadvantaged, and pupils with SEND
Provide children with opportunities related to art that contribute to the wider community.

Implementation:

In our curriculum, we aspire to cover a vast variety of significant artists to enrich the children’s experience at school with modern and classic art. We structure our curriculum around topics based on the Cornerstones Maestro Curriculum, which is a creative and thematic approach to learning delivered through imaginative learning projects. These provide a rich menu of exciting and motivating learning activities that make creative links between all aspects of our children’s learning. We base our artists studies on those that relate to the art project we may be undertaking. We work on a three-year cycle in Reception/Year 1 and Year 2 and a two year cycle in Year 3, 4, 5 and 6.

Impact

Teaching should ensure that the investigating and making includes exploring and developing ideas and evaluating and developing work. Knowledge and understanding should inform this process.

These aspects of Art and Design are developed through individual and collaborative work in two and three dimensions and on different scales, using a range of materials and processes, and through investigating the work of artists, crafts people and designers.

Art, Craft and Design experience

At all stages pupils will:

· Observe, record and express the natural and manufactured world through a variety of media.

· Undertake individual projects in art which encourage group, independent and imaginative work.

· Have time to reflect and talk about their work.

· Be encouraged to develop an aesthetic awareness of their environment.

· Be experiencing reproductions of “Works of Art” and discussing in a meaningful way.

· Realise the cultural heritage of other societies, both past and present.

· Be developing an understanding of technological processes in relation to Art and Design activities.