Art and Design

 

“Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.”

Pablo Picasso

 

Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing artefacts, expressing the author's imaginative, conceptual ideas, or technical skill, intended to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional power.

An artist needs:

• Communication skills
• Imagination
• A critical eye
• Creativity
• Collaboration

To become effective artists, we will teach children about

Intent: Introduction, Vision and Philosophy

We understand that a high–quality art and design curriculum should engage, inspire and challenge pupils. The intent of the art and design curriculum is to develop human creativity by equipping students with the skills to experiment, invent, create and evaluate. To gain knowledge and an understanding of art and design the pupils will learn about art through history and through a range of cultural, enriching experiences.

Implementation: What does Art and Design look like? An overview:

We deliver a curriculum which teaches key knowledge in drawing, painting, collage, textiles, printing and sculpting by using materials and techniques. We also believe that by creating enriching experiences, during lessons and extra-curricular activities, the pupils are able to gain a love of the subject and understand the important links that art has in the world we live in

Helping pupils to create sketchbooks enables them to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas improve their mastery of art and design techniques. Key Stage 2 pupils are expected to practice techniques with increasing control and “think critically with developing a more rigorous understanding or art and design” (DfE 2013: 176). Within the sketchbook, pupils will be taught to evaluate and share opinions surrounding other great artists’ work. They will also need to give reasoning for decisions and draw influences from great artists, architects and designers in history.

The increased use of technology should also be considered when teaching art and design. Pupils will also have an understanding of digital art and how digital and physical art are interlinked. 

We teach the following units in art and design

 

Impact: Evidence and assessment

The Art and Design curriculum aims to excite pupils and ignite their enthusiasm in the world around them. Judging the impact of art has always been a topic of debate. A large differentiation in perspective and opinion of artwork makes it difficult to define and therefore, assess pupils’ learning.

Within art education pupils should be encouraged to express difference in opinion which contrasts with fixed assessment criteria. Continuous formative assessment within art is important to view the processes that a child goes through when creating artwork.

The skills and techniques that the pupils learn will impact the learning environments in and around the academy. Pupils will be encouraged to take influences from their surroundings and improve the aesthetics of their local community by exhibiting artwork linked to all areas of the curriculum and beyond.

Subject leaders will conduct learning walks and pupil interviews to measure the impact of our teaching, based on how much children can remember.

Subject leaders will meet with their counterparts from our other cluster schools throughout the year and will moderate the planning, work and monitoring outcomes from their setting to ensure that standards are exceeding the expectations of the National Curriculum.

 

Curriculum Overview

Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Aut 1	Drawing:  The use of line   Line Drawing (mixed media)  Mark-Making techniques (mixed media)    Artist(s):  Pablo Picasso    Oliver Jeffers	Drawing:  Broken lines to create texture   Mark-Making to create visual texture and tone      Artist(s):  Olga Gamynina  Bryan Organ	Drawing:  Line drawings  Sgraffito (Line-drawing using a different medium)      Artist(s):  Karla Gerard  Gustav Klimt	Drawing:  Shading and hatching   Observational drawing  Creating Tone       Artist(s):  Paul Cezanne    Leonardo Da Vinci	Drawing:  Vanishing points   Perspective Drawing        Artist(s):  Filippo Brunelleschi  Vincent Van Gogh	Drawing:  Perspective   Observational drawing   Landscape, cityscape and portrait    Artist(s):  Ben Shahn    Stephen Wiltshire
Aut 2	Collage:  Collage techniques   Creating texture with paper          Artist(s):  Eric Carle	Collage:  Use of natural materials in collage  Cutting, arranging and sorting         Artist(s):  Andy Goldsworthy	Collage:  Kinetic collage  Arranging pieces to show movement         Artist(s):  Alexander Calder  Henri Matisse	Collage:  Surrealist images using juxtaposition           Artist(s):  Jiri Kolar  Man Ray	Collage:  Surreal collage exploring juxtaposing images and proportion  Representing topical issues of concern    Artist(s):  Sarah Eisenlohr	Collage:  Mixed Media Collage and expression of meaning          Artist(s):  Deborah Roberts  Romare Bearden
Spr 1	Painting:  Primary colours  Painting within line boundaries / block colours      Artist(s):  Piet Mondrian	Painting:  Mixing colours to recreate observed colours (secondary colours)  Smooth brush strokes    Artist(s):  Georgia O’Keefe	Painting:  Different hues of colours  Use of colour to have impact  Visible brush stroke      Artist(s):  Vincent Van Gogh	Painting:  Creating tone with paint; light and shade  Creating 3D effect  Composition in painting    Artist(s):  Giorgio Morandi	Painting:  Mixing colours to create tertiary colours to match observed colours      Artist(s):  Alex Katz	Painting:  Watercolours          Artist(s):  Paul Cezanne

 

Spr 2	Printing:  Using a range of    organic and geometric shapes to print in a variety of colours and shapes    Artist(s):  Sonia Delauney  Bernice Sydney	Printing:  Using a range of tools to create a monoprint         Artist(s):  Henri Matisse	Printing:  Using a range of tools using the collagraph printing technique       Artist(s):  Paul Klee	Printing:  Creating radial symmetry by repeating and rotating an identical image   Relief and rotational prints    Artist(s):  Diogo Machado	Printing:  Using relief and overlay techniques to create negative and positive spaces       Artist(s):  Erik Heckel  Edvard Munch	Printing:  Using stencilling to create silk printing images       Artist(s):  Blek le Rat  Y6C215  Banksy
Sum 1	Sculpture:  Pinch pots using clay               Artist(s):  Kathy Jeffers	Sculpture:  3D structures combining different materials (card)            Artist(s):  Joan Miro	Sculpture:  Coil clay pots               Artist(s):  Louise Goodman	Sculpture:  Wire sculptures  Building on wire sculptures            Artist(s):  Louise Bourgeois  Nikki De Saint Phalle	Sculpture:  Manipulating clay   Hollow sculpture (with negative space)          Artist(s):  Anish Kapoor  Henry Moore	Sculpture:  Soap sculptures   Free-standing carboard sculptures  using all modelling, casting, carving and construction techniques    Artist(s):  Naum Gabo  Barbara Hepworth
Sum2	Textiles:  Simple weaving skills           Artist(s):  Anni Albers	Textiles:  Developing weaving skills around a loom        Artist(s):  Ghananian Kente Cloth Weaving	Textiles:  Developing weaving skills to create shapes with wool on a loom      Artist(s):  Lisa Walton  Judith Content	Textiles:  Batik and how to create images and patterns using wax resist       Artist(s):  Chuah Thean Teng  Kampung Batik	Textiles:  Applique techniques to join fabric pieces together         Artist(s):  Rita Smith  Panamanian Mola Art	Textiles:  Embroidery techniques to add embellishments to applique and batik designs       Artist(s):  Bisa Butler  James Fox