Art
At Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy, we believe that Art and Design lessons can provide children with opportunities to develop imagination and creative thinking.
On this page, you will find a breakdown of the topics we cover in Art throughout the school year, a few examples of the fantastic Art and Design work created in our Art lessons across the school and internet links that you might find useful at home.
- Art and design stimulates imagination and creativity and involves pupils in a range of visual, tactile and sensory experiences which enables them to
- communicate what they see, think and feel through the use of the elements of colour, texture, form and pattern.
- Art and design promotes careful observation and an appreciation of the world around us.
- Our art curriculum provides pupils with the opportunities to develop their skills, knowledge and techniques.
- Pupils learn the skills of drawing, painting, printing, collage and sculpture, using materials such as pencils, charcoal, paint and clay.
- Pupils are encouraged to be reflective and evaluate their work by thinking critically about how they could improve or change their techniques.
- These skills will improve and progress year on year as they are revisited in greater depth and become embedded.
- Pupils are introduced to a range of famous artists and their works, and learn to create their own masterpieces in their style.
- Our pupils reflect and learn how art has shaped history and how it differs globally.
- The art curriculum at Gainsborough Primary & Nursery Academy is based upon the 2014 Primary National Curriculum in England, which provides a broad framework and outlines the knowledge and skills taught in each key stage.
- Teachers plan lessons for their class using our progression of knowledge and skills document. Wherever possible, a cross curricular approach is adopted to incorporate art in a broad range of enriching opportunities.
- In the Early Years Foundation Stage pupils explore and use a variety of media and materials through a combination of child initiated and adult directed activities both indoors and outdoors.
- Progression is planned for to ensure that key skills are revisited and pupils are given the opportunity to consolidate, build on and extend prior learning.
- Our curriculum is further enriched through our annual school Arts Week where pupils have the opportunity to explore art from different cultures in more detail.
Our art curriculum is a skills based sequence of lessons which is accessible to all. We provide all pupils the opportunity to achieve and exceed the national expectations by:
- participating in high quality art lessons provided by class teachers and where possible local artists and experts
- incorporating different genre to ensure pupils have lots of choice and develop crucial skills and techniques
- developing and using key knowledge and vocabulary
- providing the correct materials and tools to develop specific skills and techniques
- Our art curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. In addition, we measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:
- A reflection on standards achieved against the planned outcomes
- A celebration of learning which demonstrates progression across the school
- Pupil discussions about their learning, including discussion about their thoughts, ideas and processing and evaluations of work
- Monitoring of work
- Lesson Observations
- Review of the use of sketchbooks across the school
