Art Long-term Overview 2023-2024
Our Art Journals – Take a look at some of our wonderful Art Journals.
Intent
- To ensure children learn and remember artistic knowledge and skills.
- To allow children build on prior knowledge through a carefully sequenced and progressive curriculum.
- To inspire, engage and challenge pupils by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment and create their own works of art.
- To ensure children develop a deeper understanding of art and design, exploring the impact it has on the contemporary life and that of different times and cultures.
- To ensure children are able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design.
- To ensure children know how art and design both reflect and shape our history and contribute to the future and creativity around the world.
- To give pupils the opportunity to study at least one artist in depth and provide children with artists linked to the strands of art that they are developing.
- To ensure children are encouraged to be reflective and evaluate their own work, thinking about how they can make changes and keep improving.
- To encourage children to take risks and experiment and then reflect on why some ideas and techniques are successful or not for a particular project.
Implementation
- Staff will use research around cognitive science to help children learn and remember more.
- Staff will check understanding through spaced retrieval exercises.
- The subject leader will provide all staff with an art curriculum framework with planned cross curricular links and specific artists.
- Teaching and Learning will show progression across all key stages within the strands of Art and Design.
- Teaching and Learning should plan for a final piece of artwork to be displayed and shared.
- Art will be taught weekly in autumn 2, spring 2 and summer 2.
- Teachers will cover two strands of art during each term; ensuring that all six strands are covered over the year.
- Art will be assessed by teachers making a judgement based on our school expectations; looking at the pupil’s whole artistic journey towards their final piece and including their final piece.
- Pupils will be encouraged to research and explore other artists following their own preferences.
- Pupils will evaluate their final pieces; this will be evidenced through individual video interviews. Pupils will be encouraged to elaborate through questioning from adults or peers.
- Whole school art themed days.
- Showcase and share artwork around the school and in the local community.
- Visits and visitors to inspire and encourage pupils.
- Art and design homework tasks to encourage pupils to experiment and develop their interest in art.
- All teachers will be positive and passionate in the teaching of art and design.
Impact
- Children will be encouraged to explore the work of artists, use this as inspiration for their own creativity, using the language of art, craft and design.
- Children produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- Children become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design
techniques - Children know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and
cultural development of their art forms.
Mini Art Projects
Each term we are going to set ‘Mini Art Projects’ inspired by a theme, this is not a compulsory homework, it is just a way to promote art across the school and inspire Monty’s budding artists.
This half term for our ‘Mini Art Project’ we asked pupils to take their inspiration from the season autumn and create some artwork around the theme of ‘Lovely Leaves’.
Mrs Patterson was super impressed by all of the ‘Lovely Leaves’ creations that she received. The use of different media and the creative ways that leaves were used was truly fantastic; well done to all those that got involved.
