Art and Design

Implementation

 The Kapow Art revised 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 

At St. Aidan's we block the units of lessons so that they are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the National Curriculum, are also woven throughout units. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Units in each year group are organised into four core areas:

 ● Drawing

 ● Painting and mixed-media

 ● Sculpture and 3D 

● Craft and design   

Please see the progression of knowledge and skills document. 

Our blocked lessons fully scaffold and support essential and age appropriate, sequenced learning, and are adapted to form cross-curricular links with your own school’s wider curriculum where appropriate. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into our units, supporting students in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that their art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupil and personal.  

Lessons are always practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning with pupils using sketchbooks to document their ideas. Adaptive teaching is in every lesson to ensure that lessons can be accessed and enjoyed by all pupils and opportunities to stretch pupils’ learning are available when required. Knowledge organisers for each unit support pupils by providing a highly visual record of the key knowledge and techniques learned, encouraging recall of skills processes, key facts and vocabulary.  

Art Documents

Impact 

As oracy is so highly thought of in our curriculum, in art we expect children to be involved in evaluation, dialogue and decision making about the quality of their outcomes and the improvements they need to make. By taking part in our regular discussions and decision making processes, children will not only know facts and key information about art, but they will be able to talk confidently about their own learning journey, have higher metacognitive skills and have a growing understanding of how to improve.

The impact of this scheme is constantly monitored through both formative and summative assessment opportunities. Each lesson includes guidance to support teachers in assessing pupils against the learning objectives. An assessment spreadsheet including the learning outcomes for children with secure understanding and those working at greater depth enables teachers to keep records of summative assessments for each child.

We want 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 at 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.  

Art Documents