Across their time at the school we aim to inspire pupils through Art and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. We want to give pupils every opportunity to develop their ability, nurture their talent and interests, express their ideas and thoughts about the world, as well as learning about art and artists across cultures and through history.  

We aim to ensure that we cover the requirements of the National Curriculum and build upon this by creating opportunity  for further development.

The implementation of the curriculum relates to how the learning is going to be delivered across your school, taking the intent of the learning and translating it into a progressive and effective There are five strands that run throughout our curriculum.

These are:

●  Generating ideas

●  Using sketchbooks

●  Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)

●  Knowledge of artists

●  Evaluating and analysing

Learning is sequential across Year groups, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the National Curriculum, are also woven throughout units (see document below). Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.

 Units in each year group are organised into four core areas:

● Drawing

● Painting and mixed-media

● Sculpture and 3D

● Craft and design

National curriculum mapping shows which of our units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands (see document below)

Our Progression of knowledge and 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.  (see document below)

Where appropriate, we make cross-curricular links to help memory retention.

Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into our units, supporting students 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.

We aim for pupils to leave the school equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their Art and design learning at Key Stage 3 and beyond.

By the time they leave, we want to ensure pupils can:

• 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.