Key Staff
Coordinator: Mrs Nixon
Governor: Mr Shields
St Francis' Art and Design Curriculum
Art and Design includes an ongoing process and gives pupils the opportunity to know about great artists, craft makers and designers, identifying how themes and genres have changed over time including traditional, modern and contemporary (disciplinary knowledge).
The study of art enables pupils to understand, appreciate and contribute to a dimension of life that taps into and expresses human innovation, imagination and thought. At an individual level, a high-quality art education can build pupils’ ability to ‘appreciate and interpret what they observe, communicate what they think and feel, or make what they imagine and invent’. At its best, the subject is both intellectually challenging and creatively demanding. As a subject studied in school, art includes a range of practices, as well as theoretical and philosophical ideas and interests. The building blocks of the subject enable pupils to see, to know and to experience art. Pupils learn how to view, discuss and make art in its multifaceted, complex and contested forms. (Research Review Series: Art and Design, February 2023)
St Francis' Art and Design Curriculum Vision
High-quality Art and Design is an entitlement for all pupils, regardless of their starting points or prior experiences of traditional, modern and contemporary artists, selecting and using a range of tools and techniques through a variety of mediums.
The National Curriculum states that all pupils:
Using inspiration, they record their experiences, explore their ideas and evaluate and analyse them which are integral during lessons. Pupils have sketchbooks which continues through their KS2 story, to review and revisit ideas throughout these processes. They improve their mastery of art and design through practical techniques including:
They use a range of materials. For example, using mediums such as:
These specialisms including using and applying technical language that forms part of everyone's component knowledge.
The arts curriculum provides children with a creative outlet to explore and express their emotions. It can help to build resilience and develop social skills. For many children the arts can be a creative outlet for releasing feelings of pressure or stress of everyday life.
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Our curriculum consists of five key areas:
Teachers share formative and summative assessment information with each other allowing the year group planning to be adapted annually. This ensures that the cohort of children know more and remember more and have mastered and refined their skills.
Teachers plan a sequence of lessons using the St Francis' Art and Design Curriculum to focus on the knowledge and skills being taught through various mediums. Children master techniques in painting, collage, sculpture, drawing, printing, and digital media. The curriculum is sequenced to ensure that every child has the opportunity to learn about a variety of artists, architects and designers as a starting point to where their own individuality and application of skills then take over to demonstrate their own creations. This includes an ongoing process of reflection, self-evaluation, peer assessments and adult assessments infiltrated through each session to ensure progress is maintained.
We have planned what we want children to know by the end of LKS2 (Year 4) and UKS2 (Year 6) so that children can learn, practise and develop art and design knowledge and skills ready for their Year 7 curriculum. The knowledge and skills we want children to know are set out below.
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Key Skills: I understand how to produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences. I evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
| To develop ideas
| To develop ideas
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Key Skills: I understand how to become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
| To master techniques - Painting
To master techniques - Collage
To master techniques - Sculpture
To master techniques - Drawing
To master techniques - Print
To master techniques - Digital Media
Create original pieces that are influenced by studies of others. | To master techniques-painting
To master techniques-collage
To master techniques-Sculpture
To master techniques-drawing
To master techniques-print
Create original pieces that show a range of influences and styles | ||
Key Skills: I know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
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Kandinsky Matisse Kelly McCollam Leonardo Da Vinci |
Norman Cornish Tom McGuiness Andy Warhol
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Educating for Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity
From April 2023, we have a focus on ensuring we have a wide range of perspective in our curriculum so we can educate in a way that is inclusive of the viewpoints of a wide range of protected characteristics. This is a long term journey and we are starting by ensuring the identity of individuals studies is explicitly taught.
In Art and Design
| Protected Characteristic | Kandinsky | Matisse | Kelly McCollam | Leonardo Da Vinci | Norman Cornish | Tom McGuiness | Andy Warhol |
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Sex | Male | Male | Female | Male | Male | Male | Male |
| Gender | - | Homosexual | |||||
| Ethnicity | Multicultural: Father Siberian and mother from Mongolian aristocracy. | White British | White British | White European American | |||
| Nationality | Russian, lived early life in Ukraine, later French | French | Italian polymath | English | English | American | |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity | None "The love of the work to be created, the love of creation." | Catholic | None | Ruthenian Catholic | ||
| Disability | Synesthesia | 1941 needed a wheelchair due to arthritis | It was likely he had dyslexia | It was likely he had high functioning autism. | |||
| Age | 1866-1944 Modern Era | 1869-1954 Modern Era | 1452-1519 Medieval / Early Modern Era | 1919-2014 Modern Era | 1926-2006 Modern Era | 1928-1987 Modern Era | |
| Marriage/Civil partnership | 2 marriages | 1 marriage | None | 1 marriage to Dorothy | 1 marriage to Cathy | None | |
| Pregnancy / maternity | Son 1917 - Wsevolod | 2 sons, Pierre 1900, Jean 1899 | None | 2 children Ann and John | 2 sons, Shaun and Anthony, daughter Connie | None | |
| Careers | Photographer | Painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, sculptor, botany, geology, optics and architect. | Miner, artist in Spennymoor, County Durham. His house is on display at Beamish Museum - No 2 Front Street | Miner, artist - painter, draughtsman, | Visual artist, film director, producer and leading figure in the pop art movement. |
The above information is taken from a range of websites. If you see any inaccuracies, please let us know.
Art and Design is everywhere! Through pupil voice, children talk about their inspirations and starting points in their units of Art and Design, giving them opportunities to explain and show the smaller steps created to then work on a finished piece. This process can also be seen through their sketchbooks. Throughout Key Stage 2, children use a variety of mediums in which skills are enhanced and developed further by also integrating mediums.