Art and Design

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INTENT

As part of the broad and balance curriculum offered at St John Southworth our art and design curriculum will engage, inspire and challenge our children, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art. While largely a practical subject, our objective is that art will also provide the children with opportunities for reflection and, as they progress, they will learn to think critically and develop a comprehensive understanding of art. They will learn to make informed and sensitive responses to their own work and that of others. We aim for children to be able to use art as another means of expressing their ideas and feelings as well as to be inspired to become the architects, graphic designers, fashion designers, illustrators, artists, curators and printmakers of the future.

Using the KAPOW scheme of work we aim to teach the children to:

• develop visual awareness.
• provide opportunities to use art to record feelings and express creative imagination.
• develop visual vocabulary.
• understand the visual elements of colour, texture, line, tone, pattern and shape in order for them to effectively express themselves through artistic means.
• develop mastery of a range of tools, media and processes.
• acquire artistic skills and techniques.
• develop their capacity to evaluate their own and others artistic endeavors.