Art Intent

At Wentworth we believe that art gives our pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to express responses to ideas and experiences. We aim to ensure art and design, provide a broad and balanced curriculum, ensuring the progressive development of knowledge and skills, enabling children to observe and record from first-hand experience and imagination. We want to develop the children’s competence in controlling materials and tools, acquire knowledge and become proficient in various art and design techniques and processes. We will begin to develop an awareness of the visual and tactile elements including colour, pattern and texture, line and tone, shape, form and space, foster enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and develop a knowledge of significant artist, craftspeople and designers.Through increased critical awareness of the roles and purposes of art and design in different times and cultures will allow learners to analyse works using the language of art and design.

The aims of our art curriculum is to;

• Develop children’s critical abilities and understanding of the visual language of art with effective teaching and considered sequences of lessons and experience. Allowing the children to see themselves as working artists, developing a personal style and individual taste that will be carried through to other areas of learning.
• We focus strongly on drawing, painting and sculpture as these three areas are vital to build a strong foundation for future learning.
• Through these areas, we enable our children to take some responsibility for their own learning journey, encouraging self-evaluation of work, children are taught how to be resilient to achieve their goals.
• We also look more widely at other techniques within our wider curriculum learning.

Implementation

The skills and knowledge that children will develop throughout each art project are mapped across each year group and throughout the school to ensure progression. The emphasis on knowledge ensures that children understand the context of the artwork, as well as the artists that they are learning about and being inspired by. This enables links to other curriculum areas, including humanities, with children developing a considerable knowledge of individual artists as well as individual works and art movements. A similar focus on skills means that children are given opportunities to express their creative imagination, as well as practise and develop mastery in the key processes of art: drawing, painting, printing, textiles and sculpture. Children will develop themselves across the disciplines of art, they will become artists confidently using the skills and vocabulary linked to this. Coordinated whole-school project work will ensure that art is given high status in the curriculum which enables further focus on children’s artistic skills and knowledge. Our high quality art curriculum is supported through the availability of a wide range of quality resources, which are used to support children’s confidence in the use of different media. Children demonstrate the disciplines of art, vocabulary is embedded, progressive and consistently used.

Impact

Children will become creative learners, who have a web of knowledge about the great artists of the world. Creativity and uniqueness will be celebrated and learners will become astute at editing and improving the pieces they have created. As teachers, there will be an emphasis placed on individuality and children will be given the freedom to explore art using their imaginations. Children will have embedded the key art and design skills needed to allow them to produce inventive, individual pieces of art. We will assess

We measure the impacts of our curriculum through the following methods:

• Discussions with children, interviewing them about their learning (pupil voice).
• Moderation staff meetings with opportunities for dialogue between teachers.
• Photo evidence and images of the learners’ practical learning.
• Presentation of work through Fabulous Finish Exhibitions
• Progression of skills in art folders
• A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes.
• Learning walks and reflective staff feedback (teacher voice).