Art | Eling Infant School

Art and Design

Every year we hold an amazing Arts Week where the children get to put into action all the skills and techniques they have learnt over the year as well as learn even more! It is a wonderful opportunity for the children to meet different artists from the local community as well as to learn about and be inspired by artists from the past. We are very lucky because we also have students from Testwood Senior School who come into Eling to work with the children and create amazing art! This year our theme was `Skies' and every child in the school created incredible art that they were really proud of. All of the art is then displayed in our school hall and we welcomed everyone in to see it in our Eling Art Gallery, officially opened by Councillor Rackham.

Intent

All children at Eling will:

explore and experience creative opportunities to develop their artistic knowledge and skills of drawing, painting, printing, collage, textiles and sculpture using a range of media and materials
be introduced to a range of works and develop knowledge of the styles and vocabulary used by both famous artists from the past as well as artists from our local community
be reflective and able to evaluate their artwork to help them to think about how they can make changes and keep improving

all children will feel that they are creative and have artistic skills and knowledge that they can use and apply.

Implementation

All children will be explicitly taught art knowledge and skills weekly as well as re-visiting and applying their skills through their cross-curricular topics. For example, creating art in ICT paint programmes, sketching historical artefacts in detail, researching geographical locations to support their work on landscape painting or using art as a medium to express emotion and thought to enhance their personal, social and emotional development. Many areas of art also link with mathematical ideas of shape and space, for example when printing repeating patterns and designs and thinking about 3D shapes to support structures.
Our Art Curriculum will be high quality, well thought out and planned to demonstrate progression.
Pupils will be clear what the intended outcomes are and have a means to measure and reflect on their own work against this. Children will be encouraged to take risks, explore and experiment and then reflect on why some techniques and ideas were successful or not for a particular project.

Impact - We will measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods: a reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes, art moderation, pupil self-evaluation and pupil conferencing. There will be a celebration of learning during Arts week creating a whole school collaboration of artistic achievement demonstrating the progression of skills and knowledge across the school.

Art Curriculum

We aim to promote quality learning about The Arts, including Art and Design, through exploration, investigation and experiment from a range of stimuli and starting points, techniques, approaches, materials and media.

We value creativity and believe that a creative curriculum encourages children to be imaginative, innovative individuals with the confidence to try new ideas and be curious and questioning in the world around them. Every child has equal access to The Arts.

Through Art and Design the children are encouraged to use experiences and ideas as the inspiration for artwork and to share ideas using drawing, painting and sculpture. They are given opportunities to explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space. Every child is encouraged to represent their thoughts and feelings through art and design activities and to be imaginative and creative. In key stage 1 the children follow the National Curriculum programme of study.

We will learn about, and discuss the work of well-known artists, artisans and designers from a variety of cultures. It is hoped that through experiment and critical examination the children become more aware of the importance and value of art in their everyday environment.

To develop ideas and record experiences
To conceive of, present and evaluate ideas
To master techniques
To think critically about works of art
To evaluate and analyse creative works
To learn and use technical vocabulary
To use the past and present as a source of artistic inspiration.

In Year R the children follow the Early Years Foundation Stage Framework in which they work towards early learning goals in expressive art and design.

Expressive arts and design involves enabling children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials, as well as providing opportunities and encouragement for sharing their thoughts, ideas and feelings through a variety of activities in art, music, movement, dance, role-play, and design and technology.

Reviewed by Subject Co-ordinator - October 2019