Art
Intent
At Becket Primary School we aim to provide an authentic, inspiring and engaging Art curriculum for all our pupils. We will equip them with both the confidence and knowledge to talk about elements of art and inspire them to invent and create their own works of art, craft and design inspired by the work of other artists.
We will provide the children with time and the opportunity to explore and develop a range of skills and design techniques necessary to produce their own artwork through a process of self-evaluation and improvement.
By the time our pupils leave the school, they will have an appreciation of the historical and cultural context of art within the wider world. In order to be successful beyond KS2, our children will have confidence in producing creative work, including drawing, painting, collage and sculpture.
Implementation
Art is taught using the Kapow scheme of work based on the 2014 National Curriculum and is split into the key strands of generating ideas, using sketchbooks, making skills – including formal elements, knowledge of artists and evaluating and analysing. The formal elements of colour, shape, form, line, pattern, texture and tone are interwoven within the units of drawing, painting and mixed media, sculpture and 3D art and craft and design. These key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build upon previous learning.
Our curriculum overviews show which units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands. Our progression of skills shows the skills that are taught within each year group and how these skills develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of each key stage.
Our curriculum develops pupil knowledge and understanding of key artists and art movements and links to artists through practical work. Our units fully scaffold and support 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 their art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge rich, are unique to the pupil and personal.
Lessons are practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning with Key Stage two pupils using sketch books to document their ideas.
In Early Years they follow the Early Years Foundation Framework, and it is when the essential building blocks of children’s artistic capability are established. There are many opportunities for carrying out art related play activities in all areas of learning, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function. Initially children investigate, explore and have a go. By the end of the Foundation stage, they are expected to be more active learners by using the skills learnt through that initial play to come up with their own ideas, thinking critically to begin evaluating and improving those initial ideas. Art links very closely to Physical development, Design Technology and Music. Its assessment and objectives are taken directly from the Early Years Curriculum, Expressive arts and Design as well as objectives from physical development related to fine motor skills and emotional regarding self-regulation, working towards a goal, waiting and sharing equipment.
We have strong embedded working partnerships with local museums. This gives children the chance to work with and study real artists, enabling children to see art being used authentically and for a purpose, allowing children to develop a range of positive experiences, both as an artist and an audience.
Impact
By taking part in regular discussions and decision-making processes, children will not only know facts and key information about Art, but they will be able to talk confidently about their own learning journey, have higher metacognitive skills and have a growing understanding of how to improve.
The impact can be consistently monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities tracked to allow for monitoring and evaluation. Units are assessed with a quiz at the beginning and end to see what children already know and what they have learnt as well as work from lessons which are assessed based on the success criteria from the lesson.
Pupils will leave Becket Primary School quipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their Art and Design learning at Key Stage three and beyond.
Pupils will:
- Produce creative work, exploring and recording 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 and the historical and cultural development of their art.
