Art | How we do it
Art is planned and delivered as part of our Mini Adventures, ensuring that the learning is relevant and engaging. Planning and teaching follows a clear journey which gives children the chance to explore an artist or artistic movement, build skills through hands on learning and then create and evaluate a final piece. Where possible, visits to places such as museums or gallery’s provide first hand experiences for pupils when studying the work of great artists. A wide range of skills are taught as part of our art curriculum, with all key artistic media covered over a two year span. During their time with us, pupils will actively explore painting, drawing, print, collage, digital media and sculpture.
Our art curriculum builds on the previous years’ knowledge as well as developing new art skills each year. We hope that this will allow the children’s artistic skills and ideas to flourish and give them the confidence to be creative throughout their lives. The Willows Way further highlights our expectations for art ensuring that there is consistency throughout school. Skills mats and a vocabulary progression grid gives a clear progression for art across school and provide pupils with a rich vocabulary to describe their learning in art.
Curriculum Progression
Personal Development
Our Personal Development curriculum has been designed with the children at the very heart of it. It is intrinsic across our curriculum focussing on the importance of developing the ‘whole child’ so they have a clear sense of identity and individuality, that enables them to become responsible, respectful, active citizens who make a valuable and positive contribution to our society.
Our Art curriculum develops our children’s confidence, self-esteem, individuality, talent, self-worth and a sense of belonging by exploring a range of art skills throughout their time at Willows. The creative process of Art allows all children to express their emotions and allows all children to feel successful, despite their academic achievements in other subjects. We promote our ‘living in the wider world’ and ‘Cultural Capital’ strand of the Personal Development curriculum by focussing on an ‘Artistic Great,’ when new skills are introduced. To help inspire our children and raise their ‘Cultural Capital,’ visits to art galleries and studying a diverse range of artistic greats enriches their artistic knowledge and appreciation for the subject. A robust vocabulary progression in Art improves their ability to articulate and understand artistic movements as well as develop their communication skills beyond the curriculum.