Art

Our Art curriculum provides a spiralling progression of skills and knowledge across all year groups, ensuring that learners build on prior learning year after year. It meets the statutory requirements of the National Curriculum and details the art skills, media, and knowledge taught at each stage.

Our curriculum supports

• Generating ideas: fosters autonomy and creativity, helping pupils generate original ideas through experimentation.

• Making skills: develops familiarity with the formal elements of art and practical knowledge of diverse media and materials; encourages trying out different methods, tools and techniques.

• Evaluating and analysing: builds vocabulary to discuss and analyse artwork; develops the ability to justify judgments about art and its meaning.

• Knowledge of artists: introduces traditional and contemporary artists, craft-makers and designers from diverse communities; explores materials, processes and meanings.

• Using sketchbooks: documents ideas, experiments with media, and helps students evaluate and evolve their artwork.

Additional context and wellbeing

• We supplement the core Art and Design curriculum with extra art sessions linked directly to the humanities subjects being studied.

• Our approach goes beyond the National Curriculum because our pupils love art. A rich, extended art program provides shared joy and extra opportunities to support wellbeing, collaboration, and creative confidence across the school.