Art

INTENT:

At All Saints, by nurturing hearts and inspiring minds, we encourage all pupils to shine in everything they do in Art.

Here, at All Saints Primary, we value and are dedicated to the teaching of Art. We see this as a fundamental part of our school vision to nurture hearts and inspire minds and are therefore committed to providing an ‘Arts Rich Curriculum’ for our children.

We believe that a high quality art, craft and design education is essential for personal, social, moral, spiritual, cultural and creative development. We believe art, craft and design education prepares children for life in modern Britain and within international communities through study that promotes tolerance and respect, and social, spiritual, moral, and cultural understanding. We believe that an art, craft and design education enables children to become well-rounded, well-prepared learners and leaders.

IMPLEMENTATION:

All Saint’s art and design scheme of learning 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 our 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 our children 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

Our National curriculum mapping shows which of our units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands.

Our Progression of skills and knowledge 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. It also shows how knowledge builds in the formal elements of Art.

Our units fully scaffold and support age appropriate sequenced learning, and are flexible enough to be adapted to form cross-curricular links with your own school's curriculum. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into our 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 pupils.

Lessons are always practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning with pupils using sketchbooks to document their ideas. Differentiated guidance is available for every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed and enjoyed by all pupils and opportunities to stretch pupils' learning are available when required. Knowledge organisers for each unit support pupils by providing a highly visual record of the key knowledge and techniques learned, encouraging recall of skills processes, key facts and vocabulary.

All Saints supports teachers who may lack confidence in their own artistic abilities. Pupil videos created by subject specialists help pupils to see art techniques modelled by experts, to ensure the delivery of Art is of the highest quality. Each unit of lessons includes multiple teacher videos to develop subject knowledge and support ongoing CPD. The All Saints scheme of work has been created with the understanding that many teachers do not feel confident delivering the full Art and design curriculum and every effort has been made to ensure that they feel supported to deliver lessons of a high standard that ensure pupil progression.

Art and design is taught termly in discrete lessons. Wherever possible, cross-curricular opportunties are pursued inorder to enrich children’s learning. After school art clubs are offered during the year as well as an annual Summer Art Exhibition. Class teachers are usually responsible for teaching art, although there will be times when professional artists/helpers will be involved in the teaching of the topic. We take every opportunity to develop links with outside agencies and experts, including the local high school, in order to enrich our Art provision.

IMPACT:

All Saints Primary’s curriculum is designed in such a way that children are involved in the evaluation, dialogue and decision making about the quality of their outcomes and the improvements they need to make. By taking part in regular discussions and decision-making processes, children will not only know facts and key information about art, but they will be able to talk confidently about their own learning journey, have higher metacognitive skills and have a growing understanding of how to improve.

 The impact of All Saints’ scheme is consistently monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities. Each lesson includes guidance to support teachers in assessing pupils against the learning objectives.

 After the implementation of All Saints’ art and design scheme, our children should leave primary school equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation in art and design.

The expected impact of following the All Saints art and design scheme of work is that children will:

•  Produce creative work, exploring and recording their ideas and experiences.
• Be proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
• Evaluate and analyse creative works using subject-specific language.
• Know about great artists and the historical and cultural development of their art.
• Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the national curriculum for Art and design.

 An evidence record will be kept of the KS2 children’s experiences and progress in Art and design in the form of sketchbooks and photographs stored digitally. For KS1 and early years, an evidence record will be kept of the children’s experiences and progress in Art and design in the form of a class book, end of unit folder and photographs stored digitally. Using our progression of skills and knowledge document teachers are able to accurately assess the level of the children’s work. Attainment and progress is tracked using our whole school data programme.

SMSC  (to be developed in all lessons)