Anderton Park Primary School
Art
Art at Anderton Park aims to engage, inspire and challenge pupils and is fully inclusive for every child. Our art curriculum develops creativity, whilst equipping children with the knowledge and skills to experiment with the creative arts. Children are encouraged to take risks, and take ownership of their creative journey through personal sketchbooks. Drawing and craft techniques are covered each year, allowing children to develop their skills and revisit techniques and ideas that interest them.
Children are given a range of stimuli to develop art work; studying great artists from history, recording from first-hand experiences, and observing the world around them. They are encouraged to react to the things they see, think and feel through use of artistic elements such as pattern, shape, tone and colour. We aim to develop critical thinking, and allow the children to critique and compare works of art across the visual arts spectrum. With cross-curricular links, children will develop an understanding of the historical and cultural importance of the arts.
By the time they leave school in Year 6, each child will have a sketchbook filled with art techniques, artists and art activities from their time at school. In KS1, they will have had time to explore as many mediums as possible, giving them a breadth of understanding about different processes in art and how they can be used. In KS2 these skills will have been refined more, to produce more detailed drawings, paintings and sculpture.
