Intent
At All Saints, we aim to provide pupils with a high-quality art curriculum, which develops creativity, sets challenges, engages and inspires children and equips them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design and sculptures.
We follow the Kapow Scheme of Learning which 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. We aim to give all children the opportunity and confidence to explore art through using a range of mediums. Our curriculum provides children with an opportunity to experience art forms including: drawing, painting, craft and design and sculpture, and pupils are encouraged to experiment with a range of different materials and techniques to bring their ideas to life. Opportunities to practise art and design techniques when using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space are embedded across the art and design curriculum through the use of individual sketchbooks.
In addition, the Kapow 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. It encourages children to be able to look at an image or a piece of art and to understand it, not to simply have a reaction to it. We equip them with the skills required to understand the language of art and design. This enables them to describe what they see in detail and to provide evidence for their observations.
We want our children to know how art and design has contributed to our culture and understanding of the world. Through the scheme of learning, the children explore a variety of artists and their styles, which is enhanced with a visit to The Hepworth Gallery in KS2. Our children will be immersed in art from a variety of key artists and they will begin to understand the development of their particular art forms. The children will have opportunities to take inspiration from these key artists and create their own artworks in their particular styles. Children are given the opportunity within lessons to work on their own and collaborate with others on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales.