Art and Design curriculum Mapplewell Primary School - Progression of Knowledge and Skills

Our Art and Design curriculum is taught in blocks and will be taught four times over the course of a two year cycle. We follow the National Curriculum and this has been adapted to suit the needs of our school through the HCAT curriculum. Our curriculum ensures that substantive concepts are explored over the four blocks. Knowledge organisers have been developed to ensure that children are exposed to the granular knowledge needed to help to develop a deeper understanding.

The key concepts, principles and themes have been developed from the National Curriculum into a range of progressive knowledge and skills through which the pupils are helped to grow and develop to succeed in 21st century Britain and ensure children learn and remember more. Our progressive document is split into 4 sections and shows the progression from transition to KS2, these are: drawing, painting and 3D sculptures. Within Nursery and Reception classes, Art and Design is closely linked with Creating with Materials found in the Development Matters Framework. This progressive curriculum allows a purposeful way of teaching and learning, enabling us to provide a more meaningful and sequential approach to the schema for Art and Design. In addition to this, our Art and Design curriculum at Mapplewell has been further enhanced by including the optional wider curriculum strands: Printing and Photography.

Art is taught as a half termly block in phases (EYFS, KS1, LKS2, UKS2). To provide all of our pupils with the skills required for life in the 21st Century, our Art curriculum is rich and varied to promote engagement.

At Mapplewell Primary School we want pupils to progress by building on their knowledge and skills each year. We believe that pupils should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. Our progressive documents reflect this and support our teachers to deliver appropriate lessons for the pupils they teach.

The Accelerated Learning Cycle, based on the work of Alastair Smith, is applied in all lessons. It stems from the idea of a supportive and challenging learning environment. The cycle has active engagement through multi- sensory learning, encourages the demonstrating understanding of learning in a variety of ways and the consolidation of knowing.

A gather, skills, apply approach to planning and delivery of lessons is taken across school to ensure pupils develop a deep understanding of specific skills and are able to apply these in a range of situations. This ensures that children learn how to work like an artist as well as acquiring the relevant knowledge and skills to be able to achieve this successfully.

The Art and Design curriculum we offer is designed to meet the needs of all our pupils. It is rich, varied, imaginative and ambitious and meets the needs of individual learners and can easily be adapted for pupils with additional needs.

Formative assessment is ongoing throughout each lesson. It judges progress and enables teachers to make flexible adaptions to their planned teaching.

Through this regular ongoing assessment, tasks are matched to the ability of each pupil through differentiated activities, adult support, providing a level of challenge that is stimulating for pupils and questioning skills.

INSIGHT is used as a summative assessment to assess foundation subjects. The knowledge and skills based curriculum is regularly highlighted to identify any gaps or misconceptions to be addressed or passed onto the following teachers.