Our Art curriculum is designed to enable children to make connections between the work of artists, architects and designers and their own work. The curriculum provides meaningful opportunities for self-expression to give children the space to learn who they are as an artist by exploring different mediums. We aim to ignite children’s love for art by giving them the ability to express themselves through drawing, painting, sculpture, printing, collage, photography and textiles. The curriculum also provides extensive opportunity for children to develop their skills in visual literacy by looking at, thinking and talking about art.

In Art, we learn to interpret images and installations, noticing and questioning details in design and building connections between them. To create our own work, we observe carefully, taking time to identify line, shape and form, colour, light and shadow, and texture. We select materials with which to represent our ideas and experiment with different techniques, evaluating outcomes critically so that we can develop our ideas further. Revisiting and practising skills provide opportunities to evaluate and refine ideas. This process of repeated reflection and revision builds resilience and, with it, the confidence to take risks and innovate.

Please click on the documents below to see the Knowledge Organisers for each Art unit.  This will give you information about the knowledge, vocabulary and skills that the children will be learning.