Art and Design

VISION AND INTENT

Art has a significant and valuable role to play in the overall ethos of this school, and the development of the whole child. Our curriculum is designed to give pupils every opportunity to develop their ability, nurture their talent and interests, express their ideas and thoughts about the world, as well as learn about art and artists across cultures and through history.

KAPOW

At Rangeworthy CofE Primary, we use the Kapow scheme of Art which supports pupils to meet the national curriculum end of key stage attainment targets and has been written to fully cover the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s progression competencies. 

Three units of Art taught are within each academic year.  Whilst some cross-curricular links may be observed to enrich and extend the teaching in other subjects, Art is taught as a subject in its own right.

The Kapow Art scheme of work is designed with five strands that run throughout.

These are:

  • Generating ideas
  • Using sketchbooks
  • Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
  • Knowledge of artists
  • Evaluating and analysing

PLANNING

Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the national curriculum, are also woven throughout units. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning.

 Units in across each phase are organised into four core areas:

  • Drawing
  • Painting and mixed-media
  • Sculpture and 3D
  • Craft and design

Lessons are always practical in nature and encourage experimental and exploratory learning with pupils using sketchbooks to document their ideas.

Knowledge organisers for each unit support pupils by providing a highly visual record of the key knowledge and techniques learned, encouraging recall of skills processes, key facts and vocabulary

ASSESSMENT

Children will be provided with a sketchbook when they join the school, and this will go with them as they move throughout the school. Sketchbooks are an essential record of an individual child’s experiences and ideas throughout a year and key stage and will be seen as evidence for assessment and reporting purposes.

Teachers will also obtain evidence by direct observation of children at work, questioning pupils or listening to their conversations,

Using the sketchbooks and observations in lessons, teachers will then assess children for each unit. At the end of each academic year, teachers will share with you whether your child is working at, above or below age-related expectations. 

CULTURAL CAPITAL AND ENRICHMENT

Cultural capital is the accumulation of knowledge, behaviours, and skills that a child can draw upon and which demonstrates their cultural awareness, knowledge and competence; it is one of the key ingredients a pupil will draw upon to be successful in society, their career and the world of work. 

In art, Cultural Capital can be gained in many ways; 

  • From the study of differing cultures and artists both internationally and locally. 
  • Opportunities to create art from a wide range of topics including local, national, and international issues 
  • Knowledge of local and international artists 
  • Creating a link to the ‘self’ – becoming you. 
  • Encouraging a curiosity about the world. 

 

To enrich our curriculum, we have carefully chosen experiences that allow our children to enjoy hands-on activities linked to their whole-class art projects. We place great importance on educational visits and visitors to enhance the art curriculum. We also run a range of extracurricular clubs which include drawing, painting, crafting and more to extend opportunities beyond the classroom.