Art & Design Curriculum Intent

The Art and Design curriculum at Garden Village Primary Academy aims to inspire our children and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. The curriculum is designed to give every child the opportunity to develop their ability, nurture their talent and interests, express their ideas and thoughts about the world, as well as learn about art and artists across cultures and through history.

 

Art & Design Curriculum Implementation

The Art curriculum is specifically designed with five strands that run throughout each unit. These are:

● Generating ideas

● Using sketchbooks

● Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)

● Knowledge of artists

● Evaluating and analysing

 

For each unit, the 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

 

Furthermore, each unit is fully scaffolded, supports essential and age-appropriate sequenced learning, and has many cross-curriculum links. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into each unit, supporting our children in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that their art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupil and personal.

 

Art & Design Curriculum Impact

The expected impact of the Art & Design Curriculum at Garden Village Primary Academy is that every child will:

★ Produce creative work, exploring and recording their ideas and experiences.

★ Be proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.

★ Evaluate and analyse creative works using subject-specific language.

★ Know about great artists and the historical and cultural development of their art.

★ Meet the end of key stage expectations outlined in the National curriculum for Art and design.