Art

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"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."

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Art at our School

The aim of the John Clifford Primary art curriculum is to offer children opportunities which stimulate their creativity and imagination by providing a range of experiences.

The children will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. They will develop a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.

The art curriculum closely links with Design & Technology. However, our curriculum also allows lots of opportunities to link computing learning with other subjects including Science, History and Geography.

At John Clifford, we intend to provide children with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.

We believe that a high quality art, craft and design education provides and inspires personal expression, cultural understanding, creative and practical responses. This promotes imaginative risk taking to provide solutions to our material, emotional, social and virtual worlds.

Our art curriculum supports children to understand that we can express our thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways. Children will become visually perceptive and visually literate through looking, thinking, recognising, interpreting and understanding art as a medium of communication.

Our Art curriculum provides children with opportunities to develop their skills using a range of media and materials. Children learn the skills of drawing, painting and sculpture. Children will revisit different media, principles and artists throughout the years to ensure that children build on their previous learning and are able to apply them in different contexts as they move through the school.

Our curriculum allows children to explore and evaluate work from a range of great artists, craft makers and designers to understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms. The children will develop their creativity by experimenting and engaging with different techniques to then develop their own piece of work which explores their own ideas and imagination. Children will be taught to embrace mistakes and record their work in a sketchbook to allow them to revisit their experiments.

Children will develop an understanding of a range of vocabulary and revisit this throughout the years.

  • Get Messy - Gather a range of different drawing and painting resources and let your children explore. Why not try using household items creatively?
  • Sketch Books - Keep a sketch book for children to explore their ideas. They are then able to reflect on their previous work to support their art.
  • Celebrate Art - Praise your child's creations and embrace mistakes. Explain that it is about being creative. Talk about any art you see when out and about.

Could you visit a local art gallery?

 

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