Art and design at our school is a vital part of the curriculum, giving children opportunities to explore, create and express themselves. We follow the Kapow Primary scheme, which is designed to nurture creativity and equip children with the knowledge and skills they need to produce their own artwork with confidence.
The National Curriculum for Art and Design states that a high-quality art education should engage, inspire and challenge children, enabling them to experiment, invent and create. Through Kapow’s carefully planned curriculum, children not only learn practical skills in drawing, painting, sculpture and digital media, but also study a diverse range of artists, craftspeople and designers. This helps them understand how art reflects and shapes the world around us.
Through the delivery of Art and design, we aim to improve children’ skills in these four areas:
Our art and design curriculum, supported by Kapow Primary, aims to ensure that all children:
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National Curriculum Programmes of Study for Art and Design KS1 – KS2
This term in year 3, we have loved stepping back into time to explore pre historic art! We especially enjoyed creating our own paints using natural pigments such as spices . Our learning has been building up to creating our own ‘cave paintings’ using earthy textures and colours.
In art we are painting and today we looked at different painting techniques. We looked at dabbing, washes and stippling. We also used our previous lessons learning about tints and shades to mix white or black.
Art Club made lovely Chinese dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year. They decorated them in feather and coloured paper.
Art Club made some wonderful cards today. They made a stamper out of a plastic bag and it made the result look like roses.
During our art topic we have been looking at different piece of art work by different artists. Todays artist was John Singer Sargent. Do you think we have managed to recreate it?
Look at the lovely clay elephant this little learner made today. Fantastic details on the creation with tusks and a long trunk. He chose the colours and painted his sculpture by himself. Great work!
our art topic this term has been street art. We looked at perspective and scaling up. We couldn’t decorate a wall around school as we might get into a little bit of trouble. But watch this space to see if you see our artwork around school soon.
