Art

Intent

At Lavender Primary School, our art curriculum is designed to ignite pupils' inspiration and foster confidence in experimenting and creating their own art pieces. Additionally, we strive to provide every opportunity for students to enhance their skills, nurture their talents, express their ideas about the world, and learn about art and artists from diverse cultures and historical periods. We follow Kapow's scheme of work to ensure students meet the National Curriculum's end-of-key-stage attainment targets while also encouraging them to engage with and contribute to the world of arts and culture.

Implementation

The revised Kapow Art scheme of work is structured around five strands that are seamlessly woven into our BIG IDEAS at Lavender Primary School. These include:

• Generating ideas and using sketchbooks: taking inspiration from a range of artists

• Making: developing drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, craft techniques and sculpture skills

• Formal elements: exploring colour, form, line, pattern, shape, texture and tone

• Knowledge of artists: discovering artists' work and techniques

• Evaluation: critiquing their own work and that of others

Units of 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

Our 'Progression of Knowledge and Skills' outlines the skills taught within each year group, demonstrating their development to ensure attainment targets are met by the end of each key stage. Our units provide comprehensive scaffolding and support for essential, age-appropriate, sequenced learning, and are adaptable for forming cross-curricular links with your school's curriculum. Creativity and independent outcomes are integral to our units, empowering students to make their own creative choices and decisions, resulting in art outcomes that are both knowledge-rich and uniquely personal to each pupil.

Impact

Kapow Primary's curriculum actively engages children in evaluation, dialogue, and decision-making regarding the quality of their outcomes and areas for improvement. Through regular discussions and decision-making processes, children not only acquire facts and key information about art but also develop the ability to articulate confidently about their learning journey. This approach fosters higher metacognitive skills and a deeper understanding of how to enhance their work.

The impact of Kapow Primary's scheme is continuously monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities. Each lesson provides guidance to aid teachers in assessing pupils against the learning objectives. An assessment spreadsheet, detailing learning outcomes for children with secure understanding and those working at greater depth, allows teachers to maintain records of summative assessments for each child.

After the implementation of Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme, pupils should leave primary school equipped with a range of techniques and the confidence and creativity to form a strong foundation for their Art and design learning at Key Stage 3 and beyond.

The expected impact of following the Kapow Primary Art and design scheme of work is that children 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.