Partial closure (Y5 and Y6 only in school) for Wednesday 18th, Thursday 19th March and Friday 20th March

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

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