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Art and Design

Intent

 Mawnan School believes that art and design is a vital part of our children’s education and has a significant role in the children’s taught curriculum. The curriculum offers opportunities to develop our children’s critical thinking and understanding of a wide variety of cultures; including celebrating their own rich local Cornish art heritage (both contemporary and historical) and a broader more diverse range of world artists and cultures from both male and female artists.

Children will develop their own understanding of the visual and spoken language of art through well-planned sequenced lessons, or learning journeys, based around the fundamental framework of line, tone, texture, form, pattern, scale, space and composition. Time will be given for children to learn and develop skills and techniques as they transition through the school giving them the confidence to grow and develop as competent, critical creative learners.

Implementation

The knowledge, skills and techniques are planned as learning journeys within classes which are mapped throughout the schools’ curriculum (voyage) to ensure progression. Each skill that is learnt will be revisited as the children move through the school as the children will need time to experience, practice, explore and experiment with techniques previously learnt and then develop, enhance and improve them giving them mastery of the key concepts. These skills and taught techniques have been carefully mapped by year groups so that they are developmentally appropriate as are the expectations of outcomes.  

Expeditions will often support art journeys as the subject matter of the creative work is likely to be closely linked with the classes main learning, for example still life sketching and drawing links perfectly to the Dutch Masters depiction of fruit and vegetables when learning about healthy eating in Key Stage 1.

Where-ever possible we try to work in partnership with local artists, illustrators, galleries and museums to broaden our experiences of art and design in order to inspire and energize our school artistic community. As a result, our art and design curriculum will be subject to change as and when exciting opportunities become available to make art as relevant and significant as possible.

Impact

 The enthusiasm and pride in our children’s art is evident in the displays throughout our school- whether they are the regularly changed “washing line” displays within our classrooms or the eye-catching displays often linked to a school value in the hall or corridors.

As our children progress through the school their confidence and attainment is obvious and they leave us as well rounded confident creatives fully equipped with the knowledge, vocabulary, reflective skills and techniques to enter their next phase of artistic learning and development at secondary school.

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