Committed to excellent standards of teaching in partnership with a variety of local and national
organisations contributing towards system-wide improvement.
Inspire learners’ creativity, imagination and visual literacy, encouraging them to think like artists and designers.
Develop the confidence to experiment, express ideas and communicate meaning through a variety of visual and tactile media.
Promote an appreciation of art as a powerful form of human expression across different cultures, time periods and creative industries.
Encourage originality and risk-taking, while teaching learners to reflect critically on their own work and the work of others.
Ensure an inclusive and ambitious curriculum that equips all learners to enjoy, create and respond to art in meaningful ways.
Implementation:
The National Curriculum for art and design is taught to all year groups; We follow Kapow Primary scheme of learning.
A clear progression in knowledge, skills and vocabulary is taught throughout the school to ensure coverage is met; the sequence builds on skills and progression is clear throughout.
Retrieval starters are used to activate previously taught knowledge in order to consolidate prior learning and make synoptic links between topics; it is also used as an assessment strategy.
Key vocabulary is shared and discussed at the start of each topic and then revisited in future lessons.
Teachers assess and adapt learning for all groups of learners, specifically providing support and challenge for learners with SEND and those who are Disadvantaged.
Learning Questions stimulate learners' curiosity and independence.
Cross-curricular links are made to wider parts of the curriculum when they naturally fit but this is never forced to ensure deep levels of art and design knowledge and skills are always prioritised.
Impact:
Springfield artistscan generate their own creative ideas and use sketchbooks to experiment with various media and techniques.
Outcomes in sketchbooks and final pieces evidence a broad and balanced art and design curriculum, demonstrating Springfield artists’acquisition of identified key knowledge, vocabulary and a progression in artistic skills.
Springfield artistshave a solid understanding of diverse artists, designers and craftspeople from different cultures and historical periods.
Springfield artists gain the knowledge and skills needed to think like artists, allowing them to reflect critically on their own work and form informed opinions about the art and design they encounter.
Springfield artistsare respectful critics, committed to understanding how art shapes and reflects our world while valuing the unique creative expressions of others.
Springfield artists have high engagement and enjoyment in art and design.
