Art and Design

Intent (What do we want to achieve through our Art and Design curriculum?)

• Promote the sheer enjoyment of art through encouraging pupils to observe, experience and create art in all its forms.

• Develop pupils’ sensitivity towards art and design through regular focused teaching during  which we will provide a variety of opportunities for them to evaluate the art they have observed and created.

• Encourage pupils to work hard and achieve the best that they can

• Develop and extend pupils’ visual creativity, curiosity, enquiry and aesthetic sensitivity to the natural and man-made world.

• Nurture exploration and recording of ideas and the production of creative work, from observation and imagination .

• Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques;

• Develop proficiency in the use of a variety of materials, tools and techniques, including: concepts - colour, shape, texture, pattern, tone, line, form, perspective, process and media practical skills - cutting, shaping, forming, joining, using tools and processes safely, gathering resources, organising materials, manipulating media, clearing away

• Encourage pupils to respond to and evaluate their own work and the work of others

• Develop critical analysis by providing opportunities to discuss how ideas, feelings and meaning is conveyed in visual form. Using language of art, craft and design.

• Develop awareness of the work of artists, craft-workers and designers both contemporary and from different times in history and from different cultures through prints, posters, artefacts, photographs, computers and books.

• Encourage participation in workshops through organisation of visits by/to local artists

Implementation (How do we deliver the curriculum?)

At Haddenham Junior School, Art and Design and Design and Technology units are taught alternatively each half-term using the Kapow Primary Scheme which ensures full coverage of content of the National Curriculum. Each session identifies clearly the skills and knowledge to be taught, which enables progression in control, techniques and proficiency; both throughout the year, as well as throughout the school. The Kapow Art scheme of work 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 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 pupils 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

During an academic year at HCJS, approximately 33 hours are allocated to the teaching of art. Depending on how each year group plans the delivery of their curriculum, this may take place in a block of work over a period of a few days or as a lesson per week. The Kapow scheme 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.

Kapow are continually revising and adapting their content and offering a choice of interchangeable units which fit alongside other areas of the curriculum. (E.g. Stone age unit of Drawing, Ancient Egyptian unit on textiles.) This allows for flexibility, variety and cross curricula links within our curriculum.

Impact (How do we measure attainment?)

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.

Attainment is assessed through a pupil’s classwork; sketchbook and artwork, attitude and interest as well as knowledge and self- reflection.

Kapow Primary’s curriculum is designed in such a way that children are involved in evaluation, dialogue and decision making about the quality of their outcomes and theimprovements 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.

We endeavour to equip our school leavers with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their Art and Design learning at Key Stage 3 and beyond.

At HCJS, we believe Art should be valued in itself as a subject with its own skills and concepts. However, it is invaluable as a vehicle for learning across the whole curriculum and

is very much linked with the other expressive arts; drama and music, (all being languages of

feelings), which together add a richness and depth to a pupil’s whole education.