“Every child is an artist”
Pablo Picasso
Redriff’s Art Curriculum Intent
Our Art curriculum:
- is ambitious and aspirational challenging children to engage in new experiences and question artists work
- is meaningful and links to real life professions and experiences
- is engaging and accessible covering a broad range of artists, skills and techniques
- fosters creativity and individuality through expression
- celebrates our diverse community and reflects artists from a range of cultural backgrounds
Redriff’s Wider Curriculum Implementation
Our Art curriculum:
- focuses on developing a range of skills and techniques including – drawing, painting, print, collage, 3D
- develops children’s skills to generate ideas, make and evaluate
- focuses on knowledge acquisition of a range of artists and designers
- is well sequenced and connected so skills and knowledge build over time
- covers the national curriculum and goes beyond providing opportunities to work with more specialist materials and in Year 5 and 6 with professional artists.
- is topic based with cross-curricular links to core subject learning
- provides enrichment opportunities through extra-curricular clubs and working with external agencies.
- is adapted to meet the needs of all pupils.
- is assessed against success criteria highlighting keys skills and techniques learnt, as well as teaching the children to be reflective in their practice
- use a variety of high quality materials and techniques
Redriff’s Wider Curriculum Impact
Our children:
- are creative and show individuality through their work
- are knowledgeable and confident to talk about a range of artists, tools and techniques.
- are inquisitive through their exploration of different artists, materials and techniques, and problem solve to review their work and improve upon it
- are creative in their thinking and open to new experiences, artists and ways of working
- are passionate about art and eloquent in sharing their thoughts and ideas
- see the importance and impact of art within the wider world
Pupil voices:
“I like art because it involves colours and you can express your emotions.”
“We have mixed different colours and used watercolours.”
“There isn’t boundaries of what you can do. Even one stroke of paint or a pencil can be counted as art.”
“It helps you express feelings with different colours.”