Art and Design
Through art, craft and design we want to engage, inspire and challenge pupils by introducing them to a broad range of techniques, materials and artists, craftspeople and designers. We want to equip them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, explore, take risks, invent and create. It will enable them to be authentic and explore their own identity as well as being curious about respecting and connecting with others. Most importantly, we want them to foster a positive, life-long relationship with the subject and have fun.
We want our children to know that they are artists, craft makers and designers.
Our curriculum is categorised in 2 ways:
- Substantive knowledge - which gives pupils the knowledge about the past.
- Disciplinary knowledge- which gives pupils the skills to think and act like historians. This is learning how historians investigate the past, and how they construct historical claims, arguments and accounts
Our curriculum knowledge is categorised into 5 schema that are revisited and repeated throughout each year group to develop our children’s knowledge and understanding.
Our spiral curriculum enables children to retrieve the disciplinary skills each year and update their working memories by applying them to new concepts in greater depth.
Additionally, our curriculum drivers shape our approach to teaching art and design so that every opportunity is taken to relate art and design to our cohort of children. Art and design is blocked each term of the academic year and across each key stage so that pupils can gain a growing developmental understanding of the skills and knowledge in our curriculum. Each year, children will take part in a workshop or trip, in line with our curriculum driver of first-hand experience, that will further enrich the children’s learning.
Oracy
First Hand Experiences
Belonging
