Art at Arkwright

"Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves and to explore what is possible." (Maryann F. Kohl)

Intent- Why is Art so important?

At Arkwright Primary School our overarching policy for the Art aims is to:

Provide a broad, inspiring Art curriculum, which provides opportunities for imagination, personal discovery and excellence.
Staff to use Maestro Curriculum from summer to inform their planning and teaching.
Develop an understanding and enjoyment of all aspects of the Art curriculum, whereby children are self-motivated and strive to achieve their potential.
Explore a range of starting points for practical work, for example considering their local community and landscape, images, stories, natural and made objects, cultures and environments.
Extend their understanding and appreciation of Art: understanding why artists, past and present, have created work in the way that they have.
Develop the ability to observe, investigate, respond to and record the world around them through a variety of art forms.
Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
Encourage pupils to investigate, make judgments and solve problems.
Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
Make increasingly informed and creative choices of media and techniques for a given purpose
Use their artistic and creative skills to enhance learning and enjoyment in other curriculum areas
Have the opportunities to work both independently and collaboratively
Experience having their work exhibited in a space that the local community will be invited share the celebration of achievement
Have the opportunity to take part in Art competitions, in and out of school.
Have the opportunity to take part in an Art and Craft club
Engage with a variety of art forms, to explore values, expressing and sharing experiences, feeling and ideas in resourceful, creative ways.
Express themselves aesthetically and linguistically using practical activities and appropriate materials.

Implementation- How do we plan, teach and assess Art?

EYFS

The art curriculum begins as soon as the children start school in the EYFS. Learning in art links to the EYFS Statutory Educational Programme: Expressive Art and Design. The activities and enhanced provision in our early years curriculum provide regular opportunities for children to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials to build skills and knowledge that they can apply in KS1 and beyond.

Key Stage One (Year 1/2)

Cycle A	Year 1 autumn term project: Funny Faces and Fabulous Features	This project teaches children about the concept of the portrait and how the collage technique can be used to make a portrait.
	Year 1 spring term project: Mix It	This project teaches children about basic colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of primary and secondary colours and how artists use colour in their artwork.
	Year 1 summer term project: Street View	This project teaches children about artwork depicting streets and buildings and focuses on the work of the American pop artist, James Rizzi. They create a 3-D mural based on Rizzi's work.
Cycle B	Year 2 autumn term project: Still Life	This project teaches children about the work of significant still life artists and still life techniques. They explore a wide variety of still lifes and learn about the use of colour and composition. They create still life arrangements and artwork.
	Year 2 spring term project: Flower Head	This project teaches children about the visual elements of flowers, including shape, texture, colour, pattern and form. They also explore various artistic methods, including drawing, printmaking and 3-D forms, using paper and clay.
	Year 2 summer term project: Portraits and Poses	This project teaches children about portraiture. They analyse the portraits of Tudor monarchs and compare Tudor portraits and selfies today. They use photo editing software to create royal portraits.

The projects studied in Key Stage 1 provide numerous opportunities for children to explore significant historical events, people and places in their locality.

Key Stage Two (Year 3/4)

Cycle A	Year 3 autumn term project: Contrast and Complement	This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and colour mixing. It includes an exploration of tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary colours and analogous colours, and how artists use colour in their artwork.
	Year 3 spring term project: Ammonite	This project teaches children about artistic techniques used in sketching, printmaking and sculpture.
	Year 3 summer term project: Mosaic Master	This project teaches children about the history of mosaics, before focusing on the colours, patterns and themes found in Roman mosaic. The children learn techniques to help them design and make a mosaic border tile.
Cycle B	Year 4 autumn term project: Warp and Weft	This project teaches children about the artform of weaving and how it has developed over time, including the materials and techniques required to create woven patterns and products.
	Year 4 spring term project: Vista	This project teaches children about the techniques that artists use when composing landscape images, such as colour and atmosphere.
	Year 4 summer term project: Statues, Statuettes and Figurines	This project teaches children about the 3-D representation of the human form, including statues, statuettes and figurines. They study examples from ancient civilisations, and use their clay skills to create a Sumer-style figurine.

Key Stage Two (Year 5/6)

Cycle A	Year 5 autumn term project: Tints, Tones and Shades	This project teaches children about colour theory by studying the colour wheel and exploring mixing tints, shades and tones. They learn about significant landscape artworks and features of landscapes before using this knowledge to create landscape paintings.
	Year 5 spring term project: Line, Light and Shadows	This project teaches children about the visual qualities of line, light and shadow. They explore the work of Pablo Picasso and Rembrandt and are introduced to a range of shading techniques. They take black and white photographs and use pencil, pen and ink wash to reimagine their photographs in a shaded drawing.
	Year 5 summer term project: Mixed Media	This project teaches children about paper crafts, papermaking and collage techniques, including paper, fabric, mixed media and photo collage. They use their learning to create a final piece of small-scale, mixed media collage.
Cycle B	Year 6 autumn term project: Trailblazers, Barrier Breakers	This project teaches children about significant black artists and their work, and provides opportunities to analyse and create artwork inspired by them.
	Year 6 spring term project: Environmental Artists	This project teaches children about the genre of environmental art. They study how artists create artwork that addresses social and political issues related to the natural and urban environment. Children work collaboratively to create artwork with an environmental message.
	Year 6 summer term project: Distortion and Abstraction	This project teaches children about the concepts of abstraction and distortion. They study the visual characteristics of abstraction and create a musically-inspired, abstract painting.

Assessment through the key stages is continuous and subsequent evaluations inform future planning and delivery.

Analysis of data and monitoring, from our progression ladders, indicates which children are below, towards, working at and above expectations, which is recorded on O Track.

Each week, children have the opportunity to win an Arts Certificate, which is to celebrate Arts completed in the week at school. This enables any child the chance to succeed and win the certificate as it is aimed at Art and other Arts subjects.

Children will feel confident in being able to explore all aspects of Design and Technology, had a broad and balanced curriculum and feel inspired with the skills and knowledge they have been taught for their future.

At Arkwright Primary School, we have Art Creators who are responsible, creative and passionate about Art and design, who can make a valuable contribution to the art curriculum and opportunities in and out of school.

AMAZING ART IN IN 2022/2023

Autumn Term

Pumpkin Competition

The winner will be announced on Friday 4th November in assembly. Well done to all the entries that entered the competition! It was a very hard decision! Here are the winners, from EYFS- Y6 (1 per year group).

ArtsMark- Community Visitor Portrait Morning

What a fabulous day it was for both the children and staff to meet our local members of the community! I was so impressed with the way children behaved throughout the day, communicated with our visitors and created amazing portraits! It is great to see the progression if drawing skills from mark making in EYFS, right up to shading in Y6! The children even got a visit from Ashley the bear, at break time, who got involved with dancing and basketball! The community police officers also enjoyed a dance on our stafe too! :) Well done to everyone at Arkwright 😄!

Our local community visitors were:

N/R- Chris from Bolsover Library Paula Thompson from The Arkwright Centre

Y1/2- Steve Wells (our School Governor and retired fireman), Yvonne from Calow Scouts and Suzanne from Morrisons

Y3/4- Richard from Bolsover Castle, Gemma Bicknell (our Parent Governor/Vice Governor who also helps out in Y3/4 class and business owner) and Leigh Allwood from Ashgate Hospice

Y5/6- Our community Police Officers, Stuart Nesbitt (our Chair Governor) and our Local MP, Mark Fletcher