Art & Design

Art and Design

At Bishop Martin CE Primary School our Guiding LIGHT Curriculum is built around the National Curriculum, enriched to reflect the children and community we teach.

We strive to provide a curriculum that is underpinned by our Christian Values, which are embedded in the life and work of our school, and to allow all our children to 'Let their Light Shine'. 

Let Your Light Shine Before Others So They May See Your Good Deeds' (Matthew 5.16)  ​

 

National Curriculum - Purpose of Study

Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. 

The aims of the 2014 National Curriculum are for our pupils to: 

•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. 

 

Intent 

Our Art Curriculum intends to provide the children with a broad and balanced curriculum that meets the needs of all learning in our school.

Through high-quality delivery we aim to:

• Provide the children with skills and knowledge to act and think like an artist. 
• Allow the children to participate in exploratory practice. 
• Explore local, national and international artists. 
• Prove opportunities to practice the skill, apply the skill and use their imaginations to create their final outcome.
• Engage in whole school projects that provide exciting opportunities to work with all key stages across the school.

 

Implementation

Curriculum Planning

At Bishop Martin, we use 'Kapow Scheme of Work' to teach Art and Desing which follows the National Curriculum 2014 for Art. Our Long-Term Plan has been created by the Art Lead and maps out each unit including the skills that will be taught. Mapping out units on the Long-Term Plan ensures children are challenged and skills are developed.  

Medium Term Plans (unit overviews) are provided to each year group by the Art Lead. They identify learning objectives and outcomes for each unit and ensure an appropriate balance and distribution of work across each term. Each plan provides teachers and support staff with a detailed outline of what is required in sketchbooks, what resources to use, specific vocabulary to teach as well as visual examples to ensure high standards of work are produced. This also allows each class and year group across the school to be consistent in the quality of work and high standard of teaching and learning. Each plan explicitly states what has come before and after this unit of work. This is to ensure that teachers understand the sequencing of art skills and can build upon children’s prior knowledge whilst setting challenging work suitable for each year group. Teachers do not create short term plans. Teachers annotate their plans and refer to them from lesson to lesson. Specific annotation will include personalised adaptations for all SEN, GDS/challenge and Disadvantaged children. The plans also include what their key artist is for the unit, pieces of art to focus on from them and questions prepared for each lesson for class discussion.  

Our Art lessons build on skills and progress throughout the unit. Children are able to experiment with different materials, tools and resources throughout. Intendent tasks vary and can often be practical depending on the unit. All lessons build to their final lesson, the children will have the opportunity to plan in most units what they want their final piece to be. With positive encouragement and a safe space to experiment the children will be able to implement their new skills and demonstrate this through their independent tasks.  

 

Art and Design Subject Overview

 

 

Impact

Impact is show through formative assessment throughout the Art lessons and the pieces of work that the children produce.

An impact task/final task will also be completed at the end of each half term, this will link directly to knowledge and skills covered throughout the unit and will measure the children's understanding, teachers will highlight the unit cover to show their judgements. Teachers then use this to inform their judgements on askEddi (school assessment system) each term.