Art
Curriculum Intent
At Stockton Wood Primary School, we value Art and Design as an important part of our provision to broaden pupils’ opportunities and experiences offering a range of Arts and culture to enjoy, inspire and engage children. Our Art and Design curriculum has been designed and sequenced so that the children build upon their skills and knowledge taught from EYFS to Year 6
Art and Design provides the children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, creativity, thoughts and ideas. Our art curriculum engages, inspires and challenges pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. Each year, as the pupils progress and their artistic skills develop, they develop their ability to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. We ensure we make meaningful links to other areas of the curriculum, in order to know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, nationally and locally. As well as, contributing to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
Aims
At Stockton Wood, we explore and expand the national curriculum for art and design. With the aims to ensure that all pupils:
- Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
Curriculum Implementation
The teaching and implementation of the Art and Design Curriculum at Stockton Wood Primary School is based on the National Curriculum and linked to topics to ensure a well-structured approach to this creative subject. The children are taught Art through their termly Art Week. In Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2, throughout the year the children we take part in a drawing, painting and sculpture unit. More detail can be found in our Long-Term plan. The work of famous local, national and international artists are explored to enhance the children’s learning.
Early Years Foundation Stage Pupils explore and use a variety of media and materials through a combination of child initiated and adult directed activities. They have opportunities to explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture and form. Giving children the opportunity to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through art.
Key stage 1 Pupils are 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.
Key stage 2 Pupils are 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. Pupils are taught:
- 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.
Curriculum Impact
Ongoing assessments take place throughout the year. Teachers give feedback and support to pupils during art week lessons, orally and through their sketchbooks. We use this information to inform future lessons; ensuring children are supported and challenged appropriately. This data is inputted a on a termly basis through the SONAR tracking system to inform and address any trends or gaps in attainment. Children in Foundation Stage are assessed within Expressive Arts and Design and their progress is tracked. Age related expectation levels are reported to all parents at the end of the year.
Art and Design Curriculum Overview 2025-26
Art Chatter
Self portraits 🪞
We have been working very hard to draw our self portraits ✏️. We used mirrors to help us with our drawings. We know that every self portrait will be different as we are all unique.
Kapla Day
5H enjoyed adding to the amazing Kapla structure in the hall yesterday. We created the train on the bridge.
Welcome to 5H
It’s been a week since the start of the new school year and year 5 have settled in well. We’ve already delved straight into our curriculum and are having lots of fun learning.
Year One
Year One have enjoyed the return to school and seeing all of their friends again. They have been sharing their summer news, taking turns when playing, practising counting skills and creating self portraits!
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Self – portraits
The children worked really hard this afternoon drawing self portraits, they thought about line, proportion and detail.
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Bastille Day
Year 3 learned about Bastille Day yesterday, it is a French holiday which celebrates freedom throughout France. We celebrated the curriculum we have learnt this year and had a special lunch!
Art Week
Year 3 enjoyed planning, sculpting and painting their clay faces. They worked really hard with adding features and showing an emotion.
Art Week!
We have loved making clay faces for art week! We have used our sculpting skills to make a mixture of stand up and flat faces!
Art week – painting results
Our watercolour paintings in the style of Frida Kahlo, have turned out beautifully!
Year 4 ~Watercolours
Here are our final pieces, we used our watercolours skills to create beautiful fish.
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Art week
5H enjoyed art week last week. Painting self portraits of Frida Kahlo. It was great to see the focus and attention to detail on the children’s faces.
Y6 Art
We have been looking at inspirational architecture. Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect, artist and designer. She designed the iconic Heydar Aliyev Centre in Azerbaijan which is famous for its distinctive flowing, curved style. We studied wavy lines and we upscaled a picture of her famous building.
Art week – Painting!
This week we have been painting in year 5.
We have studied the artist Frida Kahlo and painted portraits that incorporate her vibrant style, taking influence from Frida to create a colour contrast.
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have been researching the artist, David Hockney and finding out about his work. They have started to draw their own landscape in the style of one of his paintings, Garrowby Hill.
Art Week🎨
This week we are learning all about an artist called Paul Klee. We have learnt he uses shapes when painting his pictures. Today we made our own self portraits, we used an our maths knowledge of shapes to help us! We are true Artists🎨
Y2 Art Week
Y2 have made a super start to art week – they have been colour mixing to make different shades and tones of red and yellow.
Painting ~ Year 4
On Monday we started art week by using watercolours to mix secondary and tertiary colours.
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ART WEEK
Year 4 used their knowledge of primary colours to complete the first Art lesson of the week.
Art Week – Year One
Wonderful start to ‘Art Week’ in Year One. Our focus this week is drawing and we have completed a ‘Draw with Rob’ warm up, explored mark making and produced a lovely sketch of our outdoor area.
Art Week
We started art week off by creating a garden picture with marks responding to movement.
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Art
Class 6MR have been finding out about an incredible architect called Zaha Hadid. She designed the most amazing buildings and we discovered that she designed some funky looking shoes as well! Not sure we’d be able to walk in them though 😂
Pixel Art
A great first lesson of our new unit, the children did a great job designing pixel art using pen and paper.
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Art Week🎨
This week we have been artists. We have made our very own superhero town using water paints. We even had to use out cutting and sticking skills to make the buildings. We had lots of fun! 🖌️
Eid Al Fitr
Today we discussed the Islamic celebration of Eid Al Fitr. Then, we looked aT and discussed Islamic art. Finally we created our own work inspired by Islamic Art.
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Year 6- Art work
6B enjoyed creating wild meadows scenes using different sketching techniques.
Art Week
Year 3 have been drawing in the style of Keith Haring. We have explored different types of shading and worked with oil pastels.
Mother’s Day
Happy Mother’s Day on Sunday to all our lovely Mums, Aunties, Grandmas and Carers. Thank you for all you do!
Year 5 Art
5M are working hard to use primary colours to paint the totem poles we made last week. We’re really happy with the finished product.
ART Week 🎨🖌️
Reception created their own superhero city using; paint, card and glue. We were inspired by the book Juniper Jupiter!
Wire Trees
Last week, we created wire tree sculptures. We twisted the wire to secure a trunk base, then added branches and beads.
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Art week – clay sculptures
5M have made cross-curricular links between Art and Geography this week – learning about Totem Poles and then designing and sculpting our own.
We haven’t quite finished our sculptures yet, so watch this space for the end results.
Year 2 Art
This week was art week, we created sculptures using paper folding and cutting techniques. We learnt what a sculpture is and thought of ways to improve our creations.
Art Week 5H
This week we have been making Totem Poles in Art, linked to our North America topic in Geography.
Art Week!
This week for Art Week we made our very own superhero town. We had lots of fun using the water paints.
Art- clay
Today we were so lucky, we got to work with an artist to make a tile with tress and buildings on. Finally we made our mouse to go on it. We have learnt so many new skills during our lesson and mostly importantly had fun.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
In reception we have been making our very own superhero’s for Art Week! We have used scissors, glue, card and sticks to make them.
SKETCHING
What a lovely Art lesson in the sun! 4D enjoyed sketching real life objects.
Art Week 🎨🖌️
For Art week reception have been exploring Spring animals. We used cotton wool, glue and paint to make a chick or a lamb.
This morning we have sketching trees in real life. We’ve been thinking about shape, form, shadow and detail.
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Year 5 Art week – Sculpture
We started our Art week with a drawing from memory warm up and then drawing with shade and detail.
Drawing with shade and detail
In Year 4, we have started Art Week by experimenting with a range of sketching pencils. We then used a view finder to draw sections of ‘Tiger in a Tropic Storm’.
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Some of our book covers
We wrote a character description for the ‘Wild Things’ and drew them.
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