The teaching of art is based on the aims and purposes outlined in the National Curriculum and has fidelity to the academic discipline of art.

The art curriculum has been designed with three formal taught units per year group: drawing, painting and sculpture. Each of these include components, which extend beyond the requirements of the national curriculum. These units build progressively, year on year, by deepening the children’s understanding of the formal key elements of art: line, shape, form, tone, colour, texture and pattern.

We have carefully designed a knowledge-rich curriculum, underpinned by a progression of knowledge and skills. The knowledge and skills build incrementally and at age-appropriate levels to ensure that, by the end of Key Stage 2, children know, understand and apply the key elements of art across drawing, painting and sculpture.

Our curriculum is guided by the following academic fingerprint:

Children will:

• Become fluent with techniques and media across the formal elements of art in drawing, painting and sculpture
• be able to experiment and make informed artistic choices
• Be able to reflect upon and evaluate their own artwork and that of others, thinking about their own artistic response to a given stimulus