Art & Design
If culture is the personality of an organisation then a quality school is restless, constantly questioning, never satisfied, challenging norms and believing that things can always be better.
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Art & Design Policy
“What counts most is finding new ways to get the world down in paint on my own terms.” Michelangelo
‘What the child can do in co-operation today he can do alone tomorrow.’ (Vygotsky 1934).
The fundamental aim of the art and design curriculum in Belvoir is to develop the learner’s artistic potential and aesthetic sensitivity to the visual and tactile elements of the world in which they live.
Role of the teacher in Art & Design.
To scaffold learning through using appropriate instructional support, processes and language whenever learners begin to approach a task and developing their abilities to meet the challenge.
To begin from what is near to the learner's experience and build to what is further from their experience.
To start the learning with tasks that are concrete, external and visible.
To guide the leaner from concrete learning to abstract learning.
To develop competence in learners as they engage in challenging tasks in which they can be successful.
To identify and built upon strengths rather than accentuate weaknesses.
To engage learners in real everyday activities that have purpose and meaning.
To gradually release responsibility to the learner until the task can be completed independently.
All pupils will have opportunities to investigate ideas and materials and to realise their intentions in ways which integrate these key experiences.
Key Stage 1
Art and design activities at Key Stage 1 will be enjoyable.
It will provide pupils with opportunities to be imaginative and creative through structured play, and through working individually, in groups and as a whole class.
The art and design activities will develop pupils’ visual and spatial awareness and support the development of their manipulative skills.
The activities will promote pupils’ self-esteem and social skills.
As pupils progress through the key stage and develop manipulative skills, they will be given opportunities to undertake more focused art and design activities in two and three dimensions.
Investigating & Realising
Pupils will be made aware of safe practice when involved in investigating and realising activities, and when using art and design materials and tools.
Investigating and realising activities will include:
- exploring and experimenting;
- selecting and sorting;
- observing and recording;
- making;
- talking about what they have noticed, examined or made;
- comment on their own and other people’s work.
Over the duration of the key stage we enable them to:
- use art and design materials creatively and imaginatively, and with increasing control;
- talk about their work and how it was made;
- develop an awareness of colour, line, shape and space, form, texture and pattern
- become familiar with a range of art, design and craft works.
Pupils will have opportunities to:
- explore and respond to direct sensory experiences, and to memory and imagination;
- observe and record aspects of their school and home environments;
- experiment with and use a range of materials, tools and processes;
- talk about their own and other people’s work;
- talk about the work of artists, designers and craft-workers;
- use resource and reference materials to develop ideas;
- use colour, line, texture, shape, form and pattern in two and three dimensional work.
Materials, Tools and Processes
Pupils will have opportunities to:
- paint and draw;
- experiment with paint;
- discover the variety of marks which can be made by a range of drawing and painting materials and tools;
- make prints;
- make random and repeat prints on a variety of surfaces;
- work with textiles;
- explore the qualities of malleable materials;
- make three dimensional structures by assembling, arranging and joining a variety of materials.
Key Stage 2
At Key Stage 2, pupils will be encouraged to participate in, and enjoy, an expanding range of art and design activities.
These activities will enrich pupils’ sensory experiences, continue to develop imagination and creativity and promote pupils’ self-esteem and social skills.
Pupils will continue to work individually, in groups and, when appropriate, as a whole class.
They will begin to exercise choice in the selection of materials, tools and techniques for recording their observations and expressing their ideas and feelings.
Investigating and realising activities will develop pupils’ aesthetic awareness and skills in observing, recording and responding to visual aspects of the natural and made environment.
They activities will promote pupils’ understanding and appreciation of the work of artists, designers and craft-workers.
Investigating & Realising
Pupils will be made aware of safe practice when involved in investigating and realising activities and when using art and design materials and tools.
Investigating and realising activities will include:
- exploring, experimenting & problem solving, researching, observing & recording;
- expressing and representing their ideas through a range of materials and techniques
- talking and reviewing
- making and modifying
- discussing & commenting on their own and other people’s work.
Over the duration of the key stage it will enable them to:
- use an expanded range of art and design materials, tools and techniques creatively and imaginatively, and with increasing control;
- develop their ideas and the ability to review and modify their work;
- develop some understanding of colour and tone, line, shape and space, form, texture and pattern
- become familiar with a range of art, design and craft works.
Pupils will have access to appropriate resources, reference materials and electronic media within and beyond the classroom. This will enable them to view and experience the work of local, national and international artists, designers and craft-workers.
Pupils will have opportunities to:
- explore and respond to direct sensory experiences, and to memory and imagination;
- observe and record aspects of the natural and made environments, using a variety of materials, tools and processes;
- experiment with and discover the characteristics of a range of two and three dimensional materials and processes, using these individually and in combination;
- discuss and explain their ideas and work, and compare it to that of others;
- develop some understanding of how artists, designers and craft-workers develop, express and represent their ideas;
- collect, examine, select and use resource materials to inform thinking and contribute to the development of ideas;
- use and combine colour, line, texture, shape, form and pattern in two and three dimensional work.
Materials, Tools and Processes
Pupils will have opportunities to:
- paint and draw
- experiment with ways of applying paint;
- mix/match/change colours and apply to a variety of surfaces
- develop knowledge and understanding of the qualities of drawing and painting materials and tools;
- design and make printing blocks
- make single and repeat prints on different surfaces, using a range of techniques
- work with, decorate and join textiles
- find out about and experiment with different ways of creating textiles,
- work with clay and other malleable materials
- make three dimensional structures, selecting and using a variety of materials and joining techniques.
