Art

Art Vision

Intent

At St Peter’s Primary School, we recognise that Art and Design stimulates creativity and imagination. It provides visual, tactile and sensory experiences and a special way of understanding and responding to the world. It enables children of all abilities to communicate what they see, feel and think through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials and processes. We encourage children to explore ideas and meanings through the work of a range of artists and designers. Through learning about the roles and functions of art, they can explore the impact it has had in different times and cultures. The appreciation and enjoyment of the visual arts can enrich all our lives. Arts subjects encourage self-expression and creativity and can build confidence as well as a sense of individual identity. Creativity can also help with wellbeing and improving health and happiness acting as an outlet for releasing the pressures of everyday life. Our spaced learning curriculum ensures that children make progress by building on their prior learning. Cultural capital is developed by providing the children with enrichment opportunities where possible.

Implementation

At St Peter’s Primary School, we will achieve this by:

• Teaching Art regularly.
• Teaching a predominantly skills-based curriculum, which covers drawing, painting, 3-D and printing.
• Re-teaching skills throughout the children’s time in school. Skills are revisited and honed in a spiral curriculum, which progresses in terms of depth and challenge, to build on the children’s previous learning.
• Ensuring that each child develops their skills and techniques in a way appropriate to them, through clear differentiation and support, active and purposeful experiences, and using a variety of art materials and teaching strategies.
• Encouraging children and teachers to explore and talk about different aspects of the visual arts. 

Ongoing formative assessment is used to inform future planning. This is assessed by observation, discussion and questioning. Children are encouraged to self-evaluate and peer-evaluate work as a form of assessment.

Impact

• Fostering an enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and a knowledge of artists, craftspeople and designers.
• Utilising a sketchbook approach, so that children feel safe to experiment and take risks, without the fear of making mistakes.
• Encouraging each child to evaluate their art and design work and that of others, both with peers and adults.
• Celebrating effort, progress and achievement in art through displays, parent visits.
• All pupils should produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences.
• Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
• Know about great artists, craft makers and designers and cultural development of their art forms.
• People make progress in the art curriculum when they build on the three domains: practical, theoretical and disciplinary knowledge.