Art

Intent of our art design curriculum, provision and enrichment

The intent of our art and design curriculum is to develop deep knowledge, understanding and appreciation of art genres, techniques and media, through art and artists across cultures and through history. Through frequent opportunities to explore and practice, pupils will be inspired and gain the resilience to confidently express themselves and review their own artwork and the work of others. They will flourish as creative and curious artists, developing a life-long interest and love of art.

Implementation

In art we use the Kapow Art units of learning but have created our own two-year cycle to ensure progression within our mixed age classes. This ensures that in each cycle we cover the four core areas of art: We have made

Drawing
Painting and mixed-media
Sculpture and 3D
Craft and design

In each unit the five strands that run throughout.

These are:

● Generating ideas

● Using sketchbooks

● Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)

● Knowledge of artists

● Evaluating and analysing

Art teaching is taught on a fortnightly cycle in tandem with DT. 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 units. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.

Lessons are always practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning with pupils using sketchbooks to document their ideas. Differentiated guidance is available for every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed and enjoyed by all pupils and opportunities to stretch pupils’ learning are available when required. Knowledge organisers for each unit can be used to support pupils by providing a highly visual record of the key knowledge and techniques learned, encouraging recall of skills processes, key facts and vocabulary. Kapow Primary supports teachers who may lack confidence in their own artistic abilities. Pupil videos created by subject specialists help pupils to see art techniques modelled by experts, to ensure the delivery of Art in our school is of the highest quality. Each unit of lessons includes multiple teacher videos to develop subject knowledge and support on-going CPD. Kapow has been created with the understanding that many teachers do not feel confident delivering the full Art and design curriculum and every effort has been made to ensure that they feel supported to deliver lessons of a high standard that ensure pupil progression.

Art is celebrated through displays within classrooms, communal areas and externally through the newsletter, school website and local exhibitions. We also offer planned Art enrichment through workshops with outside artists and projects in school. We have an after-school Art club which runs weekly.

Inclusivity

Valuing every child as a unique individual, teaching and learning will be adapted to ensure equitable provision, representing all protective characteristics.

Spiritual, moral, social and cultural development

Within our art and design curriculum, we explore and make connections with a balance of spiritual, moral, social and cultural aspects in order to prepare our children for life in modern Britain and our diverse world.