Art and Design

The school uses a variety of teaching and learning styles in art and design lessons. Our principal aim is to develop the children’s knowledge, skills and understanding in art and design. We ensure that the act of investigating and making something includes exploring and developing ideas, and evaluating and further developing work. We do this through a mixture of whole class teaching and individual/group activities. Teachers draw attention to good examples of individual performance as models for the other children. Children are encouraged to evaluate their own ideas and methods, and the work of others, and to say what they think and feel about them. We give the children the opportunity within lessons to work on their own and collaborate with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales. Children are also given the opportunity to use a wide range of materials and resources, including ICT and are introduced to the work of different artists.

Further artistic opportunities are provided in the form of competitions held internally and externally and also through after school clubs. We recognise the fact that we have children with a wide range of abilities and children who come from different cultural backgrounds. We provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of the task to the needs of the children and by ensuring that we use a wide variety of cultural and non-stereotypical resources.