Art

Art and Design at CBINS

Intent - Our Art and Design curriculum is a knowledge rich curriculum that is designed to inspire all children to express their ideas creatively. The curriculum is designed to enable children to learn by making connections between the work of artists, architects, designers and their own work, which they evaluate and relate back to the works they have studied. We encourage our children to become artists by experimenting and exploring with a range of different materials and techniques. This underpins originality and invention in their own works of art, craft and design. Meaningful opportunities for self-expression and individual response are woven throughout the curriculum, giving children space to learn who they are as an artist. This allows the children to approach their study of art with a degree of confidence and ‘expertise’ and to consolidate their knowledge by creating connections between the different disciplines.

Curriculum Drivers

Big ideas

Mapping

Learning for Life
Learning together; Making connections
Learning and Living Healthily
Learnning and Living in our Community and the Wider World

Experimenting and exploring
Creative expression
Analysing and evaluating

Progression of skills and knowledge
Builds on, embeds and deepens prior learning
Practical exploration, creation and expression underpin teaching and learning

Implementation – We implement this by following a cycle of a 7 – part lessons, learning experiences that builds on and embeds prior skills and knowledge in order to meet and go beyond national expectations as outlined in the EYFS and KS1 curricula. Children learn to become artists through: play and experimentation; discussion and talk with peers and knowledgeable adults; developing techniques with creativity and an awareness of different elements of art, (line, shape, colour, tone, form, space, visual texture and tone) and how an artist combines these elements and produces art in different styles showing resilience and motivation.

Teaching

Support and challenge

Retaining knowledge

Modelling through clear presentation of subject matter
Responsive and adaptive to the needs of children
Assessment for learning throughout
Promoting independence through learning and play
Impactful questioning that promotes deeper thinking and talk
Promoting the use of everyday language, the language of learning e.g. compare, analyse etc... and subject specific vocabulary e.g. line, tone, shape and form
Developmentally appropriate that leads to high levels of productivity

Scaffolding through resources, models, peer support and adult interaction
Modelling skills and techniques
Delving deeper through questioning, both adult led and child led
Use feedback, learning conversations, play partnering and sustained shared thinking strategies to reinforce and extend learning

Sequential mapping and skills progression that revisits and reinforces taught content
Learning environment that reinforces taught knoweldge and encourages application to new learning with continuous provision inviting children to turn to art and design as part of their play and exploration
Apply skills and knowledge into new contexts by making links to previous learning

Impact – Our Art and Design curriculum leads to good progress across the school. At the end of EYFS children become more proficient in using art, craft and design techniques, can begin to use technical vocabulary and improve their enquiry skills and inquisitiveness about the world around them. At the end of KS1, children build on the vocabulary, skills and knowledge acquired in EYFS and show greater proficiency and competence, as well as articulating their thoughts and giving more reasoned opinions about their own and work of others.

Curriculum Map

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Art and Design at CBINS