Art

What does this look like in Art and Design?

At Our Lady and St Teresa’s Catholic Primary School, we equip our children with the skills and talents to become lifelong learners; we offer a curriculum that is aspirational, achievement driven and inclusive for all learners. This is achieved through the fulfilment of statutory requirements coupled with rich and purposeful learning opportunities.

Art and D&T are important, creative disciplines that helps us to understand and be a part of our world. At Our Lady and St Teresa’s, we want all pupils to experience the power and enjoyment of the Arts and develop a sense of curiosity about the subjects; making links between different contexts.
At Our Lady and St Teresa’s, we foster a learning environment that does not limit our children, believing all children can achieve in Art and D&T, and we work alongside our children to secure deep understanding of creative concepts.

Curriculum Intent:

Through our broad and balanced curriculum planning, Art and Design at Our Lady and St Teresa’s engage with a variation of opportunities, in every lesson, through exploring different Artists and design concepts.

• Become fluent with the fundamentals of Art and Design (see Curriculum Maps) so that they develop conceptual understanding and the ability to sketch, draw, paint and sculpt.
• Develop an artistic mindset; reasoning by examining work from different artists, presenting and justifying concept and ideas.
• Respond in a variety of contexts using a range of materials for expression.
• Explore methods and techniques artistically and solving increasingly challenging design problems which require resilience and encourage them to persevere.

Curriculum Implementation:

Each lesson focusses on a manageable step of new learning, based on the National Curriculum.

What a typical lesson looks like:

• Anchor Task: an opportunity for pupils to retrieve and build upon previously acquired skills, through a: 'Last Lesson, Last Unit, Last Year, Challenge’ approach.
• Teach It: introduction to new learning with live modelling and explicit addressing of potential misconceptions. All children participate through active learning strategies.
• Practice: of skills and techniques specific to particular artists requiring pupils to flexibly move between different contexts and representations.
• Reasoning: providing learners with opportunities to reason and apply artistic and design skills by following a brief. Pupils are encouraged to justify and convince through their reasoning.
• Problem Solving: learners are required to make choices, find solutions, model and investigate problems and briefs; communicating solutions effectively and efficiently.
• Challenge: pupils explore methods for solving increasingly challenging problems and briefs which require resilience and encourage them to persevere.

To ensure all children are appropriately challenged, an episodic teaching approach and adaptive teaching strategies are implemented. This ensures pupils move through the lesson at a pace and stage which is appropriate for their attainment within each lesson.

Assessment
The termly data drop on Bromcom is informed by the three assessment procedures below:

• On going formative assessment, within every lesson, through the episodic teaching approach.

• End of unit assessments.

Monitoring, Evaluation and Review

Our Lady and St Teresa’s implement a systematic approach to Monitoring, Evaluation and Review in Maths which comprises of the following:

• Learning walks and formal lesson observations
• Book trawls
• Pupil interviews
• Data analysis and pupil progress meetings.

Art Curriculum