Art and design

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National Curriculum and more.

 

Art and design – intent

At Bridgewater Park, we are dedicated to fostering a rich and engaging learning environment for our students. To support our children's learning in art and design, we utilize the Kapow Art and Design curriculum plans. These plans are designed by experts and aim to inspire pupils, developing their confidence to experiment and create their own works of art. Our curriculum provides every opportunity for students to nurture their talents, express their ideas, and learn about art and artists from various cultures and historical periods.

Aims 

The national curriculum for art and design aims to ensure that all pupils:

1.  Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
2. Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
3.  Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
4.  Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.

Art and design – implementation

The Kapow scheme aligns with the National Curriculum and the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s progression competencies, ensuring that our pupils meet key stage attainment targets. The curriculum is structured around five key strands: generating ideas, using sketchbooks, making skills (including formal elements such as line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, and colour), knowledge of artists, and evaluating and analysing. This spiral curriculum model allows students to build on their skills progressively, revisiting key concepts with increasing complexity.

Our art lessons are practical and encourage exploratory learning, with pupils using sketchbooks to document their ideas. Differentiated guidance ensures that all students can access and enjoy the lessons, with opportunities to extend learning when needed. Knowledge organisers support pupils in recalling key knowledge and techniques, enhancing their learning experience.

Kapow Primary also supports our teachers, providing videos and resources to build their confidence and ensure high-quality art instruction. This comprehensive support helps our teachers deliver engaging and effective lessons, fostering a love for art and design in our students.

Early Years Foundation Stage

Pupils explore and use a variety of media and materials through a combination of child initiated and adult directed activities. They have opportunities to learn to:

• Explore the textures, movement, feel and look of different media and materials
• Respond to a range of media and materials, develop their understanding of them in order to manipulate and create different effects.
• Use different media and materials to express their own ideas
• Explore colour and use for a particular purpose
• Develop skills to use simple tools and techniques competently and appropriately
• Select appropriate media and techniques and adapt their work where necessary

Key stage 1

Pupils are taught:

1.  To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
2.  To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
3.  To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
4.  About the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.    

Key stage 2

Pupils are taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.

Pupils are taught:

1.  To create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
2.  To improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
3.  About great artists, architects and designers in history.

Art and design- impact

At Bridgewater Park, the implementation of the Kapow Art and Design curriculum has significantly enhanced our students' learning experiences. This curriculum is designed to involve children in the evaluation, dialogue, and decision-making processes regarding the quality of their work and the improvements they need to make. By participating in regular discussions and decision-making activities, our students not only acquire essential facts and key information about art but also develop the confidence to talk about their learning journey, enhance their metacognitive skills, and understand how to improve their work.

The impact of the Kapow curriculum is continuously monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities. Each lesson includes guidance to support teachers in assessing pupils against the learning objectives.

As a result of implementing the Kapow Art and Design scheme, our pupils leave primary school equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to build a strong foundation for their art and design learning at Key Stage 3 and beyond. The expected impact of following this scheme includes:

• Producing creative work that explores and records their ideas and experiences.
• Becoming proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture, and other art, craft, and design techniques.
• Evaluating and analysing creative works using subject-specific language.
• Gaining knowledge about great artists and the historical and cultural development of their art.
• Meeting the end-of-key-stage expectations outlined in the National Curriculum for Art and Design.

Our assessment models (Assessment for Learning) include regular formative assessments during lessons to gauge understanding and provide immediate feedback.

The curriculum allows pupils exposure to a range of different artists and art forms, across their time at Bridgewater Park Primary. Pupils build on their skills' year in year out to ensure a smooth progression throughout.