Art & Design

Children at Hunwick Primary School engage in a good quality Art and Design education from their entry in Reception until the end of KS2 in Year 6. We believe that our Art and Design curriculum acts as a stimulus to developing children’s imagination, creativity, technical and evaluative skills. Learning is influenced by closely looking at a range of artists, craft makers and designers and, understand different historical, cultural and ethnically diverse art forms. By providing an exciting, creative and rich Art and Design curriculum provides children with a firm foundation of skills for drawing, painting, printing, collage, textiles and sculpture techniques.

Early Years

In the Early Years, Art and Design plays a very important role in the children’s development. Children are taught to represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through their art work. They safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.

Key Stage 1

The Long Term Plan for Art and Design covered in school sees Key Stage 1 being taught on a half termly cycle alongside Design and Technology.

Children are taught:

• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.

Key Stage 2

The Long Term Plan for Art and Design covered in school sees Key Stage 2 being taught on a half termly cycle alongside Design and Technology.

Children are taught to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design.

Children are taught:

• to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
• to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
• about great artists, architects and designers in history.

Hunwick Primary School: Art Curriculum Overview