Art
INTENT
It is our aim at St Martin’s Catholic Primary School to provide our children with opportunities to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products. For our pupils to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination. It is our goal to help them to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape and form. We want them to know about and be inspired by great artists and craftsmen and women.
'Every child is an artist.' Picasso
IMPLEMENTATION
Art has a very important place in our curriculum. It nurtures creative thinking skills as well as ensures pupils learn through art as well as about art. It allows pupils to connect with the past, embrace the present and shape the future. We see art as a vehicle for creativity and individual expression and it provides opportunities for collaborative work. It is an important form of cultural expression and, therefore, has significance and meaning for all our children. Our teaching, using the AccessArt Curriculum, provides an understanding of all the diverse art forms so that the children experience drawing, painting, collage, 3D sculptures, printmaking and digital media.
IMPACT
Our Art and Design Curriculum is high quality, well thought out and is planned to demonstrate progression. By the end of the primary journey, we aim for all our pupils to have developed a wide range of skills and techniques as well as an appreciation of art, artists, craftspeople and designers. We aim for links to be made to the past, present and future and for each child to see themselves as an artist.
