Art and Design Rationale

Art and Design teaching  engages, inspires and challenges all pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. It provides children with an alternative form of expression, a visual language with which to communicate their responses. It can increase self-esteem and confidence for all children because Art and Design values diversity of personal response. Kapow Primary’s revised Art and design scheme of work aims to inspire pupils and develop their confidence to experiment and invent their own works of art. This scheme supports pupils to meet the National curriculum end of key stage attainment targets and has been written to fully cover the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s progression competencies. Kapow Primary is an Artsmark partner and is able to support schools on their Artsmark journey, inspiring children and young people to create, experience, and participate in great arts and culture.

The Kapow Art revised scheme of work is designed with five strands that run throughout. These are:

• Generating ideas
• Using sketchbooks 
• Making skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour) 
• Knowledge of artists 
• Evaluating and analysing

Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model.

Units in each year group are organised into four core areas: 

• Drawing 
• Painting and mixed-media 
• Sculpture and 3D 
• Craft and design