Art

What is the purpose of our curriculum?

Love to Learn

• We encourage pupils to express creative ideas in a visual form.
• We ensure pupils gain a comprehensive range of skills which are sequentially built upon, to enable them to show their ideas practically, in a wide range of media, materials, processes and techniques.
• Through the teaching of subject vocabulary and keywords, we allow pupils to become familiar with and apply 2D and 3D artistic forms.
• We facilitate pupils’ design decisions and visual outcomes, referencing the work of artists and designers, both historical and contemporary.

Learn to Live

• We demonstrate mathematical concepts such as weight, proportion, scale, balance and form – Self-Manager.
• We develop visual communication skills and encourage self-expression, emotion and self-identity – Creative Thinker.
• We enable critical thinking and the ability to interpret the world around us is highly exercised.

Live to Love

• We cover a wide range of 2D and 3D skill set and applying these to a wide range of themes and topics - Inclusiveness.
• We help pupils to step out of their comfort zone when experimenting and working with new materials and media - Tolerance.
• We include reference to a wide range of contextual and cultural refences and use of materials, media, processes and techniques - Inquisitiveness.

Art & Technology KS2

Art & Technology KS3

Learning journals indicate the progress that a pupil can make within a subject. These do not compare children’s progress with each other but considers their progress against specific statements. The Learning journals for this subject are:

Year 5

Year 6

Year 7

Year 8