ART STATEMENT

The department offers an inclusive, stimulating and engaging environment. The curriculum provides challenging, inspirational and informative experiences across multiple topics and skills. Students will have tactile and visual opportunities across various disciplines- drawing, painting, clay, sculpture, collage, allowing them all to achieve and create personal responses. This is a rich curriculum that strives to create lifelong skills, independence and engage students in real life experiences both inside and outside school. Students embed subject knowledge and refine their technical skills through a broad range of processes, artists and mediums. We have high expectations for our students to allow them to achieve their best outcome and give them a sense of themselves and the world we live in. 

Implementation & design

Clear and comprehensive progression through each key stage builds on the foundations of each prior topic and skill. Linking to the national curriculum expectations, we ensure that core skills, materials and experiences are included. Lessons are sequenced to ensure retrieval of prior knowledge and skills are covered across each key stage with the core elements of investigating, experimenting, refining, recording and responding fully embedded within each year group. A range of media is used across each key stage to allow students the freedom to express themselves through multiple experiences and gain an understanding of art, craft and design as a whole. The core skills such as observation, understanding the formal elements and analysis underpin every project and topic to allow students to revisit and refine their skills at every opportunity. 

Outcomes & impact

Students should have a good understanding of a range of materials, skills and artists/ genres. Students should have the confidence to explore and experiment with materials and have high expectations for their work and outcomes. Students will feel positive about investigating and problem-solving and will feel encouraged to embark on the sense of creative discovery. Students will have the core skills embedded and will be able to apply these convincingly. 

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