Curriculum – Art & Design
Intent
At Lumley Primary Federation, we use the National Curriculum for Art and Design as the basis of our Art and Design programme to ensure that all pupils:
- 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.
We agree that our Art and Design curriculum 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. Children should be inspired to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of Art and Design. Our art curriculum has clear progression of skills and knowledge in all aspects of art.
Knowledge and Key Skills Progression Grids:
ART & DESIGN – KS2 Knowledge and Key Skills – updated September 2022
Implementation
We provide pupils with a robust Art and Design curriculum covering a range of artists, styles and genres. In Key Stage Two, we use Kapow Primary as a basis for our Art and Design teaching.
The Kapow Art scheme of work is designed with five strands that run throughout. These are:
- Generating ideas
- Using sketchbooks
- Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
- Knowledge of artists
- Evaluating and analysing
Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the National Curriculum, are also woven throughout units. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Units in each year group are organised into four core areas:
- Drawing
- Painting and mixed-media
- Sculpture and 3D
- Craft and design
Impact
By the end of Key Stage Two most children will:
- Create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
- Produce creative work, exploring and recording their ideas and experiences.
- Be proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques with a wide range of materials.
- Evaluate and analyse creative works using subject-specific language.
- Know about great artists, architects and designers and the historical and cultural development of their art.
