INTENT:

Welford-on-Avon primary School, aims to enrich every pupil’s life, by cultivating a genuine, life-long culture of Art & Design appreciation.

We aim to inspire children and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. They are given every opportunity to develop their ability, nurture their talent and interests, express their ideas and thoughts about the world, as well as learning about art and artists across cultures and through history.

We are committed to providing an ‘Art’s rich curriculum for our children and the wider community.

IMPLEMENTATION:

Teaching and implementation of the Art & Design Curriculum is based on the National Curriculum and is planned using the Kapow Art & Design scheme of work. Three half-terms are dedicated to Art and Design learning. It is designed around five strands that run throughout. These are:

• Generating ideas
• Using sketchbooks
• Making skills
• Knowledge of artists
• Evaluating and analysing

Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the National Curriculum, are also woven throughout the units. Through a clear spiral curriculum structure, key skills are revisited again and again, deepening layers of complexity across the whole school curriculum. This allows for previous learning to be reinforced as well as allowing for related new content to be taught and learnt in the context of what has already been learnt.

Units in each year group are organised into four core areas: Drawing – Painting and Mixed-Media – Sculpture and 3D – Craft and Design.

Each unit fully scaffolds and supports essential and age-appropriate, sequenced learning. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into our units, supporting pupils in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupil and personal. Practical lessons encourage experimental and exploratory learning with pupils in Key Stages One and Two, using sketchbooks to document their ideas. Differentiated guidance during every lesson ensures that these can be accessed and enjoyed by all children. Knowledge organisers for each unit support children by providing a highly visual record of the key knowledge and techniques learnt, encouraging recall of skills processes, key facts and vocabulary.

Early Years Foundation Stage

Pupils explore and use a variety of media and materials through a combination of child initiated and adult directed activities. They have opportunities to learn to:

• Explore the textures, movement, feel and look of different media and materials
• Respond to a range of media and materials, develop their understanding of them in order to manipulate and create different effects
• Use different media and materials to express their own ideas
• Explore colour and use for a particular purpose
• Develop skills to use simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
• Select appropriate media and techniques and adapt their work where necessary

 IMPACT:

By the time that children leave Welford-on-Avon Primary School, we want them to be equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their Art and Design learning, at Key Stage 3 and beyond. As well as developing a passion for art and creativity, working both independently and collaboratively, the expected impact of following this scheme will be that children will be able to:

• Create, produce, explore and record their ideas and experiences,
• Be proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques,
• Evaluate and analyse creative works using subject-specific language,
• Know about great artists 
• Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National Curriculum for Art & Design.

Through enabling children to think about the purpose of art and artists in all our lives, we will ensure that as children grow they feel entitled to express and better understand themselves (and the world in which they live) through making and talking about art. Through this creative entitlement, we can help nurture citizens who feel empowered to help shape the community and society for the better.

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