Art and Design Curriculum Statement of Intent

Intent – Why does our art curriculum look like this?

At Crane Park we share the aims and beliefs expressed in the National Curriculum: we believe that a high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils. We aim for our art and design teaching to equip pupils with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. Our objective is to enable pupils to think critically and develop more rigorous understanding of art and design, as well as having a deeper understanding of how art and design both reflect  and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. We want to enable our pupils at Crane Park Primary to reach and exceed their potential through creating art work with real purpose, whereby they showcase the skills and progress they have made by displaying and sharing the work they have created.

Implementation – How is art and design taught at Crane Park?
At Crane Park we use the Kapow Primary’s Art & Design scheme of work to deliver the Art curriculum from Year 1 to Year 6. During planning and the delivery of Art lessons, we want our teachers to feel empowered with the knowledge and resources they need to deliver high-quality lessons; Kapow provides this for our staff, which ultimately produces better outcomes for our children.

Kapow’s Art Scheme of work is designed with five strands that run throughout.

These are:

• Generating Ideas
• Using Sketchbooks
• Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
• Knowledge of artists
• Evaluating and analysing

Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. Kapow weaves the formal elements (a key part of the NC) throughout the units and the key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This enables our pupils to revise and build on 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 National Curriculum Map shows which of the units cover each of the National curriculum attainment targets as well as each of the strands.

The Progression of Knowledge and Skills shows the skills that are taught within each year group and how these skills develop to ensure that attainment targets are securely met by the end of each key stage. The units fully scaffold and support essential and age appropriate, sequenced learning, and are flexible enough to be adapted to form cross-curricular links with each year group’s wider curriculum. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into the units, supporting ou pupils in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions.

Impact – What positive impact is the curriculum having on our pupils learning?
 

The KP Curriculum is designed to involve children in evaluation, dialogue and decision-making in the quality of their outcomes and the improvements they need to

make. By taking part in regular discussions and decision-making processes, our children not only learn facts and key information about art, but they are able to talk confidently about their own learning journey, have higher metacognitive skills and develop a growing understanding of how to improve.

The impact of Kapow Primary’s scheme can be constantly monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities. As a school we use formative assessment to assess our children, using the learning objectives for each lesson.

As a school, we are still on a journey with the Kapow Primary’s revised Art and Design scheme, and are only in our 3^rd academic year using this scheme. After the implementation of Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme, we expect our pupils to 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 for 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.