Our Art Curriculum Intent

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At Hamstel Infant School and Nursery we understand the importance of providing our children with a quality art, craft and design curriculum that stimulates creativity and imagination.  Our art curriculum provides expressive opportunities and a creative way of understanding and responding to the world. Our Hamstel Headlines form part of our drive for quality first teaching in art across the school.  

 

We aim:

• For all children to receive a broad, balanced art curriculum that immerses them in learning that is creative, imaginative, memorable, engaging and meaningful. 

• To offer all children an art curriculum that ensures the progressive development of their art knowledge and skills.  

• To directly teach and develop subject specific vocabulary to children. 

• To create opportunities to enrich and secure learning, ensuring children remember more and can therefore do more.

• All children have opportunities to practice and develop their creative and imaginative skills and knowledge through carefully planned opportunities.

• To ensure all children can verbally articulate and express their knowledge and understanding of an age-appropriate, ambitious art curriculum.

• That by the end of Key Stage One, all of our children will have participated in a range of learning opportunities and experiences, inside and outside the classroom that enhances their skills, knowledge and understanding of artists, and creativity through colour, texture, form and pattern.                                  

 This will be achieved by:

• Art being taught through engaging and immersive themes, linked to Artist studies with opportunities for children to express themselves and make connections threaded through the curriculum

• Promoting creativity, independence and opportunities for expressive art 

• Using our local community and resources to enhance the children’s art learning

• Teaching deliberate subject specific vocabulary to enhance vocabulary development

• Modelling key vocabulary and the use stem sentences support children’s articulation and oracy skills

• A carefully planned art curriculum that shows progression and sequenced lessons from Nursery to end of KS1.

• Adapting outcomes, tasks and resources to meet the needs of all children

• Use of formative assessment to build on previous learning and move learning forward

• Having a range of resources and experiences to enhance the teaching and learning of art

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How will we know we have achieved our aims?

• Children will use vocabulary correctly to communicate their understanding of art

• Children will begin to make connections about art to other learning

• Children will develop their knowledge, skills, and inquisitiveness about artists and pieces of artwork 

• Children will have a good bank of early techniques and skills that they can apply to their own artwork

• The learning of art is loved by teachers and children across the school.

• Teachers have high expectations and children make good progress across their art lessons

• Children confidently use their creativity and imagination to produce their own art work which they are proud of

• All children speak confidently and positively about their art learning 

• By celebrating key artists past and present and children can talk about them