Art

Intent

At St. Philip’s, our children learn different ways to express themselves and explore their own creative potential through drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media arts/crafts and digital concepts. Within art lessons, children at St. Philip’s learn about great artists, craftspeople, architects, photographers and designers and how their work helped to shape history and culture in this country and around the world.

Through art our children are able to develop their own skills with critical thinking, allowing them to evaluate their own and work of others to enable them to make improvements based on theirs and others’ opinions.

Implementation

Throughout their time at St. Philip’s, we aim for all children to cover these six main areas of learning through a range of units each year.

·         Drawing

·         Painting

·         Printing

·         Collage and textile

·         Sculpture

·         Digital media

Furthermore, we aim to ensure that all children experience art and design to help them understand and develop skills within the knowledge that:

·         Art is one of the highest forms of human creativity and how it has reflected and shaped human History

·         Art is a key driving factor in human culture, history and community

·         To create art and to view art means thinking in a critical and evaluative way.

·         Knowing about great artists, craft makers, architects and designers and where they gain their skills and inspiration from, will help gain a greater understanding of specific cultures and ideas.

·         Art comes in a vast array of skills, therefore with each year group children should be thinking about their use of colour, tone, shape, pattern, texture, line, form, space in increasing levels of consideration and purpose.

·         Art lessons at St. Philip’s are timetabled weekly and use Access Art to form a basis for planning and units to be taught.

·         Other art sessions will also supplement the art curriculum with cross curricular links where needed for example, displays, Remembrance Day or other theme days.

·         Displays around school celebrate the children’s artwork within class, including for cross curricular purposes (such as CST collaborative artwork for hall, Forest school and learning tree projects.)

·         Art theme days to take place yearly/biyearly to allow all children and staff to undertake a school wide art project and theme.

·         Art exhibition/invitation to parents to come to see the children’s work and school environments. 

Impact

·         Through new art scheme (Access Art) children are being exposed to a variety of art techniques through updated units of work. Including illustration, set design, typography.

·         Teachers feedback for new art scheme has been very positive so far, website is easy to use and navigate and has brilliant CPD opportunities.

·         Through cross curricular links, art provides an outlet for the children to express themselves and opportunities to explore the curriculum away from ‘academic’ lessons.

Children are exposed to a variety of artists from the past and present as well as different ethnicities, ability groups and backgrounds

Enrichment

·         Aim for artists to come to visit school (budget dependent).

·         Aim for parents to visit to see children’s artwork.