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. Children revisit their art knowledge through a Friday retrieval quiz. Children in Foundation Stage are assessed within Expressive Arts and Design and their progress is tracked.
Art and Design Curriculum Overview 2025-26
Art Chatter
Art Week in 1R
Art week was a huge success! We started by exploring primary colours, and mixing to create secondary colours and walking our paintbrushes. Then we moved on to the story of King Cuthbert and his birthday party! We invited the worms, one by one, in our primary colours. We then explored the skill of printing, and used different everyday objects to print shapes. Before finally creating our bears and robots!
Year Four Art – Drawing
Lovely art lesson today retrieving prior learning and exploring lines and shapes. We produced a range of lines and turned some of them into symbols.
Arts Council candidates
We had so many candidates for our Arts Councillor. Well done to every child that shared the reasons that they would be a great member of our Arts team. Unfortunately, only one could be chosen.
Arts Council
Introducing our new Art Council, these children in Year 4 to 6 will be busy this year with lots of art projects.
Maths Party Day 🧮🔢
We had so much fun celebrating Maths Party Day! The children explored different 2D shapes and used their creativity to design and create their own pictures through art. The children thought carefully about the shapes that they were using, recognising and combining them to make wonderful pictures!😊
The Iron Man
We have been the Iron Man by Ted Hughes. Class 3CM have made some fabulous iron men as part of their homework. We are very impressed with the imagination and creativity of these designs!
5D – Maths party day!
Last Friday, we celebrated maths party day! In year 5, we created pixel art and calculated the size of our drawings using cm’s. We created some fantastic pieces! Well done year 5! ✍️🤩
Interactive Ballet Class – Year Four
Wow what a wonderful experience we have all had this morning in Year Four! We joined in a Royal Ballet master class via zoom and learnt all about the arts. We explored a range of styles of Ballet throughout the years up until present day. Plus developed our knowledge of how stage settings, props and dance motifs are created.
Ballet – Royal Ballet and Opera!
This morning, we are enjoying a live zoom session learning all about the history of ballet, and learning some fantastic ballet moves!
Black History Month
Year 3 have been exploring the cityscape artist Stephen Wiltshire for black history month. We have learnt that at 3 years old he was diagnosed with autism and drawing was his preferred method of communicating. Also, we explored some of his cityscapes and drew a cityscape of Liverpool ourselves.
Year 4 Big Friday Quiz
Year 4’s Big Friday Quiz is a hit!
We love earning dojos when we successfully retrieve and recall our previous learning.
Black History Month
As part of Black History Month, Year 4 have been inspired by local athlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson, who grew up just down the road from our school. We explored her achievements, practised our note-taking skills and transformed our notes into creative artwork.
5D computing 💻🪐
This week, 5D have been creating their own databases full of fascinating information about Space. They have worked incredibly hard to organise, input and present their information clearly, creating some fantastic and beautifully presented databases!
This learning has also linked closely with our English work, where we have been writing about Mars. The children have enjoyed researching and collecting interesting facts to support their writing, while developing their computing skills at the same time. We have been very impressed with the effort and creativity shown by 5D!
DT Week
For DT week Year 3 have explored mechanisms by designing and making their own moving picture using pivots and levers. Inspired by The Iron Man by Ted Hughes, Year 3 have designed, made and evaluated their own mechanism.
5D – Computing 💻
In Computing, 5D have been spending time creating databases using information from Match attacks! The children have really enjoyed gathering information and then displaying it in their own unique ways.
Self Portrait 🎨🖌️
This week, we have been working really hard on creating our very own self-portraits! 🎨 The children used mirrors to carefully look at themselves and talk about their features before drawing their portraits.
We discussed our different eye and hair colours and talked about the similarities and differences between us. It was lovely to see the children celebrating what makes each of us unique and special. 🌟
Y4 – Mirror, mirror…
We took a look at ourselves in the mirror before creating our self portraits, noticing how much we’ve grown and how much our drawing skills have improved,
Welcome to Year 3
The children have settled very well into Year 3! We are looking forward to the year ahead! They have all created their own self portraits in Art.
