Gardners Lane Primary School

'Art' should be interpreted as 'art, craft and design' and artists should be interpreted as artists, crafts people and designers throughout all documentation.

The art policy follows whole school guidance on the curriculum and how it is managed, organised, delivered, assessed and evaluated. It also reflects agreed approaches to the whole school issues, i.e. teaching and learning strategies, differentiation, behaviour and discipline, special educational needs and equal opportunities.

The implementation of the policy is the responsibility of all the teaching staff. Art, craft and design has a significant and valuable role to play in the overall ethos of this school. Art is an ongoing process through which all children are given opportunities to develop specific skills, knowledge and understanding to enable them to work in variety of media, style and form. It enables children of all abilities to use their creative imagination to achieve their potential with guidance and given criteria. Children work individually and within a group to develop the social and personal skills.

Art is not taught in isolation, although it retains its creative base and its skills and techniques. Wherever appropriate it is linked to other areas of the curriculum and gives children the opportunities to develop specific art skills and reinforces skills already established.

Aims

 The school should ensure that all children:

• Have entitlement to a broad and balanced, enriching curriculum.
• Enjoy an active involvement in art, craft and design.
• Have the confidence as well as the skills and experience necessary to communicate their ideas through their artwork.
• Have the opportunities to experience a broad and balanced range of art activities and show progression within these experiences.
• Have opportunities to learn about art from different times and cultures.
• Become visually literate and able to identify and apply the key elements of art.
• All pupils will be given equal access to the experience of the art regardless of the gender, race or disability.
• Produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
• Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques.
• Evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
• Know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms

Objectives

In their own work children should be able to:

• Show development in their ability to create images.
• Work with confidence in two and three dimensions and on a variety of sizes and scales.
• Experiment with a wide range of different media to understand their potential, to become familiar with their characteristics and to develop confidence and competency when working with them.
• Select media and to decide how they are to be used in the work to be undertaken.
• Understand and use the language of art, craft and design when relating to their work and the work of others.
• Develop an increasing ability, analyse and record the world about them.
• Understand and apply the basic principles of art, craft and design to include: Line, tone, texture, shape, form, space, pattern, colour, contrast, composition, proportion and perspective.
• Record what they can imagine in sketchbooks or work journals.
• Be realistic about their own abilities in art, craft and design and recognise their success aswell as the areas for development.
• Evaluate and discuss the outcome of their own work against declared criteria.
• Develop the ability to justify decisions taken concerning the process of their own work.
• Realise their ideas and sustain a level of working from start to the completion of a project or a piece of work.
• Recognise the difference in approach taken by artists, crafts people and designers in their work.
• Recognise that art, craft and design differ from culture to culture and reflect the times in which they were produced.
• Relate their artwork to other curriculum areas.
• Use art as a medium to give expression of their world.

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