Art & Design

Our Subject Vision;

At LMPS, we provide a high-quality art and design education that engages, inspires and challenges pupils. Lessons stimulate creativity, imagination and inventiveness through equipping children with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. Art should enable children to communicate what they see, feel and think. Children experiment with the use of colour, texture, form, line, shape, pattern and different materials.

We nurture our pupils’ understanding across a range of media to help them to think critically and gain a more rigorous understanding of art and design. We want our children to know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.

A range of integrated experiences are carefully planned to fit in with our half termly learning projects, where relevant to do so, in order for children to develop a range of skills in a meaningful and purposeful way.

We use sketchbooks to help children to develop their ideas and to show and assess progression in their artistic knowledge, understanding and related skills. The children learn to improve their mastery of art and design techniques by learning specific drawing, painting, printing and sculpture techniques. The children use technology to produce images, patterns and decorative pieces of work. They will record their observations and ideas and use them to review and evaluate improvements. They take inspiration from nature and from a range of design examples and will also learn about great artists, architects and designers in history.

As the children progress through school, art experiences are built upon so the children can make decisions about their approach to different challenges. Drawing skills are used to support many other subjects, for example designs to support design and technology projects and illustrations to support writing, and as such are very important aspects of how the children record their knowledge visually.

Pupils in EYFS are taught;

To safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function.
To represent their own ideas, thoughts and feelings through art.

Pupils in Key Stage 1 are taught;

To use drawing to develop and share ideas, experiences and imagination.
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in pattern, line, shape, form and space.
To use sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
To use painting to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
To develop a wide range of art and design techniques in colour.

Pupils in Key Stage 2 are taught;

To create sketchbooks to record observations and use them to review and revisit ideas.
To improve mastery of art and design techniques. Including drawing with a range of materials.
To improve their mastery of art and design techniques including sculpture.
To improve their mastery of art and design techniques including painting.

You can download our Curriculum Map by clicking on the document below. This document clearly outlines the knowledge and skills for Art & Design in every year group, for each area.

You can download our Knowledge Organisers which provide an insight into the curriculum being delivered each term.