Queens’ Federation: Art Subject Statement
Intent
At the Queens’ Federation we aim to foster ‘Learning for Life.’
We will provide a rich, relevant and inspirational curriculum that promotes a lifelong love of learning and equips our pupils with the key knowledge and understanding, skills and personal qualities that they will need to thrive in a rapidly changing world. Our curriculum is designed to be relevant to our children and is linked to the context of our school and the local community.
At the Queens’ Federation, we believe that art is a valuable part of a child’s education. Our art curriculum aims to develop creativity, engage and inspire pupils and equip them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they will develop their critical abilities and their understanding of the visual language of art and design including line, tone, texture, colour, pattern, shape and 3D form.
Implementation
Our art curriculum, is designed to support pupils to develop an understanding of their own cultural heritages and the cultural heritages of others through the study of a diverse range of artwork and artists, both locally, nationally and internationally. Pupils will experience a wide range of media and tools and will have the opportunity to apply their understanding of this media in a range of contexts. Skills and knowledge are built upon year by year and are sequenced appropriately to maximise learning for all pupils. Lessons offer opportunities for experimentation and exploration in addition to the production of finished piece of work.
Our art curriculum is enriched through careful links to other areas of the curriculum and is further enhanced through the study of inspirational artists and renowned pieces of work. Alongside this exploration, first hand experiences such as visits, trips, use of the local area and workshops with local artists provide pupils with a real life context on which to base their artwork.
We view assessment as a holistic process, which takes place in every lesson through observation of, in questioning and in conversation with pupils and in the production of art and design outcomes. Art assessment criteria set out the key knowledge and skills that a pupil should achieve at the end of each unit of work.
Impact
Pupils leave the Queens’ Federation with an appreciation and understanding of art in the world around them. They are equipped with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design and view themselves as artists, whose art style is important and valued. Pupils have a clear understanding of how art and design both reflect and shape our history and contribute to the culture and creativity of our locality, nation and world. Pupil outcomes evidence a broad and balanced art curriculum and at the end of each year, pupils achieve age related expectations and retain the knowledge and skills learnt from each unit of work.
The yearly overview for A&D in stages throughout Queen Emma is expressed below:
For more information please click on the link to view our Art Policy on our Policies page.
Examples Of Work
Creative display boards around the school identify not only the focus of the subject or topic, but also demonstrate an understanding of an art element. Here are a few that have been spotted:
Cubs and Foxes have engaged in some expressive painting, incorporating texture into their creations!
Reception classes used items found in nature to create a “living” display, highlighting our autumn season.
Nature plays a role with year 1 classes, where we used water colours to create our own variety of bird!
Year 1 have worked tremendously hard in art this term! As part of our topic, ‘nature explorers’ we completed observational drawings of birds. We started by sitting quietly on the field and watching the birds around us. We observed their shape and colour. We then used photographs of birds to help us complete our own observational drawings in our sketch books. Finally, we painted the birds using watercolours.
Year 1 have loved making the planets from the solar system. We made the planets using papier-mâché and then painted the planets in groups. Look through our classroom window to see our amazing solar system!
Negative space produces the idea of buildings in our year 2 Fire of London paintings; mixing colours to blend into the next works on artistic skills.
Collage with pompoms and paint have also been used and give a 3D effect to our work in Reception.
Inside the year 2 classroom, we have some self-portraits with creative results!
Year 2 were inspired by their work on the Great Fire of London in History to create powerful artwork using layering, black sugar paper and pastels. We really enjoyed this Art activity!
In year 3, we combined the idea of maths and tangrams into wonderful abstract works of art.
Pirates have been spotted in pen and line drawings in year 3.
We looked at the fine details of Paul Nash’s pictures and tried to copy what we saw using pencil drawings and sketching.
