‘Creativity takes courage’ Matisse
Intent
At Hugh Joicey School we want our pupils to love art, craft and design! We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are and to grow up wanting to be illustrators, graphic designers, fashion designers, curators, architects or printmakers. Our Art curriculum is designed to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, while equipping them with the knowledge and skills to be able to experiment, invent and create their own works of art.
As pupils progress, they will gain a deeper understanding of how Art and Design reflects and shapes our history, and how it contributes to the culture, creativity and wealth of our world. We aim to equip our pupils with not only the minimum requirements of the Art and Design National Curriculum but to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life. We want our pupils to use the local area and our beautiful setting as inspiration, to learn from other cultures and respect diversity.
Implementation
At Hugh Joicey we teach the National Curriculum, supported by a clear skills and knowledge progression. One unit of Art and Design is taught each term in an ‘Art Week’ in the final week of a term/half-term. We also use a variety of other opportunities to explore other Art and Design skills throughout the curriculum to develop ‘ web of understanding’.
We use the Kapow Primary scheme of work which is designed with the following strands that run throughout:
- Generating ideas
- Using sketchbooks
- Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
- Knowledge of artists
- Evaluating and analysing
These strands are revisited in every unit and pupils have the opportunity to practise these skills discreetly. The knowledge and skills from these units are then applied throughout the other units in the scheme. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral column model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Units in each year groups are organised into four core areas:
- Drawing
- Painting and mixed media
- Sculpture and 3D
- Craft and design
Our Art and Design curriculum develops pupils’ knowledge and understanding of key artists and art movements and links to artists through practical work. Creativity and independent outcomes are embedded into our units of work, supporting our pupils in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that art outcomes, while being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupil and personal.
Impact
Our curriculum is designed in such a way that our pupils are involved in the evaluation, dialogue and decision-making about the quality of their outcomes and the improvements they need to make. By taking part in regular discussions and decision-making processes, pupils will not only know key facts and information about art, but they will be able to talk confidently about their own learning journey, have higher meta-cognitive skills and have a growing understanding of how to improve.
Our pupils will develop a real passion for Art and Design and use their skills across the curriculum and during extra-curricular activities.
After the implementation of Kapow’s Primary Art and Design scheme, pupils should leave Hugh Joicey school equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their future art and design learning.
The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Art and design scheme of work 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
