Art and Design

At St Teresa's Catholic Primary School we follow the Kapow Primary Combined Art and Design and Design and Technology scheme of work. 

Intent
Art and design are an important part of a broad and balanced curriculum and provides children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, thoughts and ideas.

Art and design enable children to be creative and should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art. As pupils progress they should be able to think critically and develop a rigorous understanding of art and design and know how art and design both reflects and shapes our history and contributes to our culture.

Implementation
The teaching of art and design is designed with four strands that run throughout. These are:

• Making skills
• Formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
• Knowledge of artists
• Evaluating

Through Kapow Primary Art & Design, these strands are revisited. 

• In the Art and design skills and Formal elements of art units, pupils have the opportunity to learn and practise skills discreetly. 
• The knowledge and skills from these units are then applied throughout other units in the scheme. 
• Key skills are revised again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on previous learning.
• The Art and design curriculum develops pupil knowledge and understanding of key artists and art movements through Every picture tells a story units and links to artists through practical work. 
• Creatively and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into the units, supporting children in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions.

Art and design and Design technology units alternate throughout the year, covering all the National Curriculum objectives. Lessons take place weekly or in blocks and are practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning using sketchbooks in KS2 to document ideas. 

In Early Years children explore art through the area of expressive arts and design. Through continuous provision and adult directed inputs children are exposed to a range of media and have the opportunities to use different tools including scissors, paint brushes, pencils, pens for example.