Our Curriculum Art & Design
Art & Design Statement of Intent
At Cottingley Primary Academy we want each and every child inspired to choose a Remarkable Life and so we have designed our art and design curriculum to reflect this. We want our art and design curriculum to provide the children with as many opportunities as possible to enable them to truly find their remarkable. Our school is about creating exciting and engaging learning opportunities for all children, so that they learn to love learning and create really special memories of their time in school.
Art & Design Sequence of Learning
Our Art & Design Curriculum
We want all children at Cottingley Primary Academy to leave year 6 with an appreciation, enjoyment and love for Art and Design; we want children to have the skills and knowledge necessary to engage confidently in expressing themselves in a range of media. Children should leave having a secure subject specific vocabulary so they are able to articulate their thoughts and ideas - including being able to critique their creative process, identifying successes and challenges.
Our curriculum is based on the Kapow scheme of learning. Through our art and design curriculum we aim to teach discrete skills through our ‘Formal Elements of Art’ and ‘Art and Design Skills’ units. The children’s work is mainly recorded in their sketchbooks. We then provide children with the opportunity to apply their skills through other units linked to the wider curriculum.
Through each unit children are taught:
Making skills - painting, drawing, printing, creating 2D and 3D art and crafting.
Generating ideas - taking inspiration from a range of artists and craftspeople.
Formal elements - colour, form, line, pattern, shape, texture and tone.
Knowledge of artists - knowledge of artists’ work and techniques,
Evaluating - critiquing their own work and that of others.
National Curriculum
Subject Rationale