Art and design at simonstone st.peters
Subject leadership
Victoria Greenwood (KS1 teacher) and Lucy Fitzpatrick (KS2 teacher).
Intent
At Simonstone our curriculum has been designed with our school community in mind to ensure opportunities are created for children to be inspired by Art and understand the link between this and other subjects. Our knowledge maps provide children with key knowledge, skills and vocabulary. The Knowledge Maps also outline how each particular skill links across the curriculum, to the wider world and future careers.
.We aim to provide a high quality Art and Design Curriculum which engages, inspires and challenges children, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art. Our Art and Design curriculum enriches our children’s learning and enables them to communicate their thoughts, ideas and observations in a practical and expressive way. In talking about art and evaluating their own and others’ work, children are encouraged to develop their visual language, ideas and feelings. Through experience of a wide variety of materials, tools and techniques.
Our Art and Design curriculum enables children to develop the skills of drawing, painting, collage, 3D art and textiles, through the provision of stimulating and varied resources, including a diverse range of artist’s work from a wide variety of cultures and backgrounds. These resources, including real life drawing and painting opportunities, are carefully selected to support and enhance other curriculum areas. At Simonstone, we regularly aim to provide children opportunities to meet and collaborate with real life local artists such as Edward Foster, Prags Burk and Sophie Fitzpatrick from the Civic Arts Centre and Theatre.
We aim to engage and inspire children to develop a love and appreciation of art and artists, to nurture their natural talents as individuals, increase their self-confidence, creativity and sense of achievement and to enable them to understand how art and design both reflects and shapes our history and contributes to the many cultures that surround us today.
Our curriculum meets the expectations set out in the National Curriculum.
At Key stage 1 children will be taught:
- to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
- to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
- to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
- about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
At Key stage 2 children will be taught:
- to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.
- to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
- to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
- about great artists, architects and designers in history.
Implementation
Impact
We have designed our curriculum to ensure Art and Design is taught consistently across school with a progression of skills.
We have used the National Curriculum Alongside the Lancashire KLIPS to ensure progression across the year groups.
We have created Knowledge Maps which offer a clear structure and sequence for staff to follow. The units have been planned in an order that best works with the main curriculum connectors. Art Sketch Books have been implemented across the Key Stages which will follow the children through the school. This will enable them to refer back to key knowledge and see their own progression.
Sketch books now ensure that we are evidencing clear progression of Art skills. The Knowledge organisers support children’s key vocabulary and technical knowledge. Art Sketch Books have been monitored and feedback provided to teachers in staff meetings to ensure our planning and delivery meets the needs of our children. The planning, teaching and learning is adapted to suit the needs of our children. The Knowledge maps have given staff the confidence to ensure the progression is clear and they are beginning to become much more confident in delivering Art lessons.
Art in Action
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