Our Christian Vision
St. Luke’s CE Primary school provides a journey to discover ‘life in all its fullness’. John 10:10. Where children flourish, are happy and succeed. Our distinct Christian values: friendship, love, trust, patience, forgiveness and respect are woven throughout the day, the learning, the gathering, the school.
Our theologically rooted Christian vision meets the specific needs of our school community we aim to remove barriers so that everyone can flourish and live life in its fullest. By the time our pupils leave Year 6 we hope to have removed barriers and enabled our them to grow in faith and recognise the wider world as they continue their journey
At St. Luke’s the children are at the heart of every decision we make to ensure that they are happy, confident and that the opportunities that are provided for them are relevant to their needs both now and in the future. We achieve this by providing an inspirational and creative curriculum, rich in opportunity and full of challenge.
Rationale
At St Luke’s we are Artists! We believe that Art and Design is an essential part of the curriculum our teachers ensure that our high-quality Art and Design education provides the opportunities for children to flourish through an ambitious scheme of works that allows all children to access their lessons through a cumulatively sequenced progression of skills and knowledge taught across Key Stage One and Two. This is first taught through the early years of their education whilst working on their fine and gross motor skills which then allows them to build upon their artistic talents. At St Luke’s we pride ourselves on providing children with a thirst for knowledge and curiosity for the artistic world around them by giving them the materials and first hand experiences they need to become their true artistic selves. Opportunities for our children are open ended and adapted to every child’s independent learning needs.
At St Luke’s we use the Kapow curriculum which covers the national curriculum entirely. This scheme of work builds upon a spiralised curriculum on the premise that we want to sequence knowledge about the artistic world around us, so pupils have firm building blocks. These building blocks of skills (drawing, painting and sculpture) and knowledge are then relied upon later as more complex topics are taught. The Kapow curriculum ensures children are taught specific artistic skills from the youngest age up group within school, thus allowing them to build upon these skills and prepares them for Art and Design lessons for Key Stage Three and beyond. Lessons are designed with cognitive load theory in mind and they follow Rosenshine’s Princip-les of Instruction. The materials provided through the Kapow curriculum support teacher subject knowledge allowing teachers to focus on specific lesson elements to bring the enacted curriculum to life.
Intent
The Art and Design curriculum promotes curiosity and a love and thirst for learning. It is ambitious and empowers our children to become independent and resilient as in all curriculum areas.
The Art curriculum at St Luke’s focuses on providing children with skills and knowledge based lessons to allow them to discover the world around them confidently, so they can succeed in a rapidly changing world. Children and young people are naturally inquisitive and passionate about learning; we ensure our Art lessons are stimulating, engaging and fun which fosters their natural curiosity and their on-going intellectual development. Through a hands-on, practical and skills based curriculum the children will grow into the artists of the future. Furthermore, engaging in Art workshops from real-life artists both in person and within a virtual way enhances our children’s learning experiences.
We want our children to love their Art and Design lessons. We want them to have no limits to what their ambitions are and grow up wanting to be Artists, Graphic Designers, Photo Editors, Fashion Designers and beyond. We want our children to remember their Art lessons in our school, to cherish these memories and embrace the artistic opportunities they are presented with! To achieve this, it involves exciting, practical hands on experiences that encourage curiosity and questioning. Our aim is that these stimulating and challenging experiences help every child secure and extend their artistic knowledge and vocabulary, as well as promoting a love and thirst for learning. Our curriculum both supports the needs of our SEND learners and those children who may be naturally artistically gifted to flourish further.
At St Luke’s, we have a coherently planned and sequenced curriculum which has been carefully designed and developed with the need of every child at the centre of what we do. We want to equip our children with not only the minimum statutory requirements of the Art National Curriculum but to prepare them for the opportunities, responsibilities and experiences of later life.
Implementation
Our Art and Design curriculum first becomes apparent within our school at the youngest age. Within Early Years, Art is incorporated within their termly topics carefully planned alongside the objects of the Early Learning Goals. Children are exposed to mixing of colours, exposed to textures, Artist feeling and encouraged to reflect on their own creations across the year. Both the environment and skilled practitioners foster curiosity and encourage explorative play, children are motivated to ask questions about why things happen and how things work. Futhermore, children are given the opportunity weekly to engage with natural materials to create Artistic creations during their Forest School lessons.
In KS1 and KS2 Art is taught through planning linked to the new National Curriculum 2014-15 using the Kapow Curriculum. Effective learning only comes from effective teaching. When teaching we focus on motivating the children and building on their skills, knowledge and understanding of the curriculum.
The Art curriculum has been carefully planned and build, the learning opportunities and assessment milestones for each year group has been crafted to ensure progression and repetition in terms of embedding key learning, knowledge and skills. For example, each year group focuses on the three main aspects of the Art curriculum at a different level. Within the Year 4 curriculum under the sub-section of Sculpture and 3D, children use a variety of 3D materials to create a range of abstract sculptures depending on the materials. These skills are then built upon in Upper Key Stage Two as children are challenged to create sculptures that represent themselves in a literal or symbolic way and reflect on their primary education.
As a school, we feel the Kapow scheme of work best suits our children and their needs. Each lesson is carefully adapted to suit our children and equipped them to succeed and meet the learning intentions. At the same time, as practitioners, we feel this gives us the initial building blocks for lessons that are the adapted for the best possible outcomes of learning.
Impact
The impact and measure of this is to ensure students not only acquire the appropriate age-related knowledge linked to the art curriculum, but also skills which equip them to progress from their starting points, and within their everyday lives. Kapow Primary’s curriculum is designed in such a way that children are involved in the evaluation, dialogue and decision making about the quality of their outcomes and the improvements they need to make. Our aim for art is to increase the skills needed to navigate an ever-changing world of art by immersing our students with specific artistic skills, key knowledge and creative skills. We aim to create a culture of high artistic aspirations, which will allow our students to have a platform to develop their artistic learning and careers, and to articulate their understanding of key artistic concepts. We know when our curriculum provision has been successful because this will lead to excellent outcomes by all of our pupils including disadvantaged pupils and those with SEND.
Formative assessment is used as the main tool for assessing the impact of Art as it allows for misconceptions and gaps to be addressed more immediately within the next lesson. Kahoot quizzes have been created by subject leaders for practitioners to access at the start of lessons and the end of units taught. End points are instrumental in knowing whether pupils have been successful. We aim for our pupils to recall learning with fluidity and automaticity.
Summative assessments are carried out at the end of a topic and at the end of the academic year. The summative assessments enable teachers to evaluate the learning at the end of a unit and they allow subject leaders to monitor the performance of pupil cohorts. Summative assessment allow teachers and subject leaders to identify where intervention may be required to ensure pupils are supported to achieve sufficient progress and attainment.
Children at St Luke’s School will:
- demonstrate a love of art and the skills they are taught
- retain knowledge that is pertinent to Art with a real-life context.
- be able to question ideas and reflect on knowledge.
- be able to articulate their understanding of artistic concepts
- Build upon skills each year across the 4 lines of artistic enquiry
- Be able to name important Artists they have been exposed to throughout their primary years
- work collaboratively and practically to investigate and experiment.
- achieve age related expectations in Art at the end of their cohort year.
Art and Design Progression map
Click the link below to view our Art school blog page to see some examples of how our pupils flourish in Art at St. Luke’s:
https://stlukesceprimary.blog-pages.co.uk/subject/art-design/