07.09.2026 – All About Me! – PSED
07-09-2026
This week we are all getting to know each other, learning about what we like and who we are. The children have created self portraits today, looking closely at what makes them, them!
Purpose of Study
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:
- Generating ideas
- Making
- Evaluating
- Artistic knowledge and understanding
Aims
Our art and design curriculum, supported by Kapow Primary, aims to ensure that all children:
- Experiment with a wide range of artistic techniques and media.
- Develop their skills in drawing, painting, sculpture, printing, collage and digital art.
- Build knowledge of artists, designers and craftspeople from different times, cultures and backgrounds.
- Learn to evaluate and reflect on their own work and that of others, using accurate art vocabulary.
- Express their own ideas and creativity with increasing independence and confidence.
- See art as a powerful form of communication, self-expression and cultural understanding.
Documents
Art & Design Chatter
13.07.26 – Culture Day
14-07-2026
Nursery and Reception had a wonderful time celebrating Culture Day! We enjoyed a tea party together whilst learning all about the UK. We enjoyed tasting delicious food brought in from different cultures from our families. The children proudly shared their home traditions and customs, before creating and waving their flags. Thank you for supporting us to celebrate!🍰🧁🇬🇧
13.07.26 – Culture Day
13-07-2026
What a fantastic day we had today. We tried lots of food from Yemen, Sri Lanka, England, Venezuela and Kurdistan, it was all delicious! Then we looked in depth at Sri Lanka. We looked at the Elephant cloaks worn during festival times, we made prayer flags and we made our own flag.
11.06.26- Rainy Day Exploration
11-06-2026
Today, Nursery took their learning outside to explore weather firsthand. We compared the different sized puddkes that have formed in our outdoor area and used powder paint to explore mixing primary colours with the rain!🌧🎨
05.06.26 – Art – Batik Fabric Design
05-06-2026
Our art topic is about looking at fabric design and taking inspiration from it. In this lesson we learnt about the Batik technique and have previously used PVA glue to create a patter. Then today we have used fabric paint to add colour around the glue.
15.05.2026 – The Enormous Turnip – English
15-05-2026
Sunflower class have read The Enormous Turnip this week. On Thursday, we had a delivery. A turnip and other root vegetables from the farmer. We decided to make some soup. The children enjoyed chopping, peeling and preparing the vegetables. Everyone enjoyed tasting the delicious soup.
14.05.26 An African watering hole
14-05-2026
One of our little learners in Year 2 created this beautiful African watering hole. It was full of animals all wanting a drink. He talked about having trees and branches to make it even better.
01.05.26 – Art – Making clay structures
01-05-2026
In Year 2, we have been making clay structures using some gluing techniques. We also shaped and made imprints onto our little structures.
02.03.2026 – The Three Little Pigs – Creative
02-03-2026
After reading the story The Three Little Pigs, Sunflower class used different resources to create our own houses. The children had to work collaboratively to create the shared pieces. They decided what was the best way to add the materials and how to apply them.
27.02.26 – Art – Still life painting
27-02-2026
Today we completed our art unit which was all focused on painting using tints and shades. As this was our final lesson we had used items from the classroom to create a still life composition. Once we had sketched it we began considering the tints and shades before mixing colours to paint our images.
26.02.2026 – Daffodil Painting – Art
26-02-2026
Sunflower class have been looking for signs of spring. We spotted that the daffodils had started to bloom. We took some inside and painted a picture of them, looking closely at the different parts, shapes an colours.
13.02.26 – Art – Painting
13-02-2026
We have been developing our knowledge of different artist throughout our painting topic. We gather ideas and took inspiration from these artists. We these drew a sketch and use different types of media to create our final image.
13.02.2026 – Art – Historic art
13-02-2026
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.
12.02.26- Art- Painting skills
12-02-2026
In Art, we have been looking at North American artists. We looked at an artist called John Singer Sargent and some of the work that he has produced. Then we had a go at painting in his style. There were some amazing pieces of art. Well done year 5!
10.02.26 – Art – Painting techniques
10-02-2026
Today we used our tint and shading techniques to learn different painting techniques we can use for our final piece. We practised stippling, washes and dabbing.
10.02.26 – Art – Painting techniques
10-02-2026
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.
09.02.26 – Art Club – Chinese Dragon (Chinese New Year).
10-02-2026
Art Club made lovely Chinese dragons to celebrate Chinese New Year. They decorated them in feather and coloured paper.
02.02.26 – Art Club -Valentine’s Card
02-02-2026
Art Club made some wonderful cards today. They made a stamper out of a plastic bag and it made the result look like roses.
23.01.26 – Art – Recreating art using drama
23-01-2026
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?
21.01.26 – Art and Craft – creating a clay sculpture
21-01-2026
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!
07.11.25 – Art – Create street art with meaning
07-11-2025
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.
