Art and Design
“Every child is an artist” – Pablo Picasso
At Watton-at-Stone, we want our children to love art, craft and design. We want to develop the children’s confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art and for them to have no limits to what their ambitions are.
We follow the Kapow Art and Design scheme which fulfils the statutory requirements outlined in the National Curriculum (2014). It is a progressive scheme of work for Reception to Year 6 and is designed with five strands that run throughout: generating ideas, using sketchbooks, making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour), knowledge of artists and evaluating and analysing. The units of lessons 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 and craft and design.
We always want to showcase the children’s artwork and ensure it is being celebrated. Our classes are named after inspirational artists that the children learn about throughout the year. Each class produces their own artwork in the style of the artist their class is named after, which is then proudly displayed.
