“Since every child is born with the power to create, that power should be released early and developed wisely. It may become the key to joy and wisdom and possibly self realisation. Whether the child becomes an artist is immaterial”.
Florence Case
Intent
At Beulah Junior School, we believe that teaching and learning in Art is important because it stimulates creativity, imagination and inventiveness. The purpose of Art education is to give pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to express responses to ideas and experiences in a visual or tactile form. It fires their imagination and is a fundamental means of personal expression.
In Art and Design sessions at Beulah, we aim to give our pupils the opportunity to explore all creative media - becoming proficient in drawing, painting and sculpture; to learn what can be done with different materials, and what effects can be created. We aim to provide the knowledge and skills to enable pupils to make their own art.
We would like pupils to find pleasure in sensory exploration of materials, in learning to use tools and techniques, and in manipulating and combining materials to create different and pleasing results.
We aim to develop interest in the work of other artists, craftspeople and designers and create opportunities to meet and work with other artists. We want pupils to develop a sense of personal expression and achievement, through creating individual work, which can be appreciated by themselves and other people.
To achieve this, Art is taught through the use of Kapow Primary’s revised Art and design scheme of work which aims to inspire pupils and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. The scheme is written by experts in their field and designed to give pupils every opportunity to develop their ability, nurture their talent and interests, express their ideas and thoughts about the world, as well as learning about art and artists across cultures and through history.
The scheme supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of key stage attainment targets and has been written to fully cover the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s progression competencies.
Implementation
The Kapow Art revised 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
The National curriculum mapping shows which units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands.
The Progression of knowledge and skills shows the skills that are taught within each year group and how these skills develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of each key stage.
The units fully scaffold and support essential and age appropriate, sequenced learning, and are flexible enough to be adapted to form cross-curricular links within our own school’s curriculum.
Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into the units, supporting students in
learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that their art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupil and personal.
