Art and Design

Art and Design
at St Anne’s Primary School

Intent

At St Anne’s Catholic Primary School, our aim is to inspire pupils and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. Our curriculum is designed 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 our rich heritage and culture. Our children will be taught Art and Design in a way that ensures progression of skills, and follows a sequence to build on previous learning. Our children will gain experience and skills of a wide range of formal elements of art in a way that will enhance their learning opportunities, enabling then to use art and design across a range of subjects to be creative and solve problems, ensuring they make progress.

Implementation

As a school, we maintain strong links to the National Curriculum guidelines to ensure all children experience a broad and balanced Art and Design curriculum that builds on previous learning and provides both support and challenge for learners. We follow an Art and Design scheme using PlanBee that ensures a progress of skills and covers all aspects of the Art and Design curriculum. There are five strands that run throughout the Art and Design Curriculum: - Making skills - Formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour) - Generating ideas - Knowledge of artists – Evaluating- These strands are revisited in every unit.

Pupils have the opportunity to learn and practise skills discretely. The knowledge and skills from these units are applied throughout other units in our Art and Design curriculum. 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. Children’s work will be collated in sketchbooks and displays around the school. The subject co-ordinator ensures resources are kept up to date, monitors the subject across the school, creates action plans and to provides subject feedback to SLT as appropriate. Foundation subjects are assessed at the end of each term stating whether children are working towards, at or exceeding age-related expectations. This is then used to make sure all children are continuing to make progress and any children whose levels drop, or increase can be addressed accordingly.

Impact

Through the quality first teaching of Art and Design taking place, we will see the impact of the subject in different ways. Through pupil voice, children will be able to talk about the skills and knowledge they have acquired. Children will be engaged in Art and Design lessons and want to find out more. Work will show that a range of topics are being covered, cross curricular links are made where possible and differentiated work set as appropriate. The school environment will be Art and Design rich through displays, resources and vocabulary etc. Assessments and monitoring will show standards in Art and Design will be high and will match standards in other subject areas. The expected impact of our Art and Design curriculum is that children will:

 -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.

-Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National Curriculum for Art and Design