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
Art Chatter
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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