Art

Art & Design

Subject Leader: Mrs Taylor

We value Art and Design as an important part of the children’s entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. It provides the children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their individual interests, thoughts and ideas. We aim to develop a love for art and instil in all children that art is a form of expression available to all, regardless of their perceived ability. Our intention is that all children leave CMFS with a range of skills, the ability to think more critically and have an appreciation for a diverse range of art and design that enables them to be more evaluative and creative, across all aspects of their life.

Art is underpinned by the Early Years foundational knowledge. We recognise the importance of allowing early exploration of artistic techniques together with an abundance of purposeful exploration, such as colour mixing, work with textures and 3D sculptures using resources such as clay.

We base our Art and Design lessons on the CUSP curriculum. This is organised into blocks with each block covering a particular set of artistic disciplines, including drawing, painting, printmaking, textiles, 3D and collage. Vertical progression has been deliberately woven into the fabric of the curriculum so that pupils can revisit key disciplines throughout their learning journey at increasing degrees of challenge and complexity. Through a connected approach, we support our pupils to retrieve knowledge from other subjects in Art lessons. In addition to the substantive knowledge required to be successful within each discipline, children focus on disciplinary knowledge with working artistically and develop different aspects of these skills.

Through our art curriculum we will develop children’s creative and critical abilities and understanding of their own and others’ cultural heritages through studying a diverse range of artists throughout history.