Art

Art and Design Curriculum Scheme of Work: United Learning

Art and Design Subject Leader: Mrs Casewell

Art and Design Senior Leadership Team Link: Mrs Prinsloo

An introduction to Art and Design at Hill View

Subject Intent

In Art, we offer a structure and sequence of lessons to help teachers ensure they have covered the skills required to meet the aims of the national curriculum.

The intent is to ensure all pupils produce creative, imaginative work. Children have the opportunity to explore their ideas and record their experiences, as well as explore the work of others and evaluate different creative ideas. Children will become confident and proficient in a variety of techniques, including drawing, painting, and sculpting, as well as other selected craft skills, including collage, printing, weaving, and patterns.

Children will also develop their knowledge of famous artists, designers, and craft makers and enrich their knowledge and understanding of the importance of diversity and inclusion within art.

Children will also develop their interest and curiosity about art and design through a series of lessons offering skill progression, knowledge progression and offering children the opportunity to ask questions and demonstrate their skills through enriching their personal, social, and emotional development. 

Implementation

The Hill View Art and Design curriculum is adapted from the United Learning curriculum. It is aligned to the National Curriculum 2014 and Programmes of Study for KS1 and KS2 and ‘Expressive Arts and Design’ in the Early Years Foundation Stage.  

Our Art and Design curriculum sets out the units that should be covered in each year. Within each year, the units have been sequenced in a chronological way that the means that substantive knowledge and skills progresses from one to the next and there is gradual understanding of ‘vertical concepts’. 

All lesson plans are based on Rosenshine principles and reflect best practice. Teachers use assessment for learning to tailor lessons around our children and help plan for subsequent sequences of lessons.  

All units include:  

• a pre-unit formative assessment
• a knowledge organiser that outlines knowledge (including vocabulary) all children must master
• a cycle of lessons for each subject, which carefully plans for progression and depth
• continuous formative assessment to identify misconceptions and fill gaps in knowledge
• opportunities to apply ideas and knowledge, for example, trips and visits from experts 

At Hill View, Art and Design is taught for half a term (with the other half-term being Design and Technology) per full term. Within each lesson, opportunities for formative assessment are provided, and teachers continually adapt their lesson delivery to address misconceptions and ensure that children are keeping up with the content. 

Each year group is provided with an overview, which is broken down into termly coverage of the skills, knowledge, and understanding to be applied. Additional resources are referred to in order to give the teacher and adults leading art confidence in the progression of skills and knowledge and that outcomes have been met and to be inclusive of a diverse range of artists to enrich understanding.  Each key stage focusses on different themes to ensure continued interest in the subject as well as acquiring new knowledge. The lesson implementation aims to develop the children’s techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation, and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft, and design. Children should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our Art and Design, and contribute to the culture, diversity, creativity, and wealth of our nation and a diverse wider world. 

Impact

Our Art and Design curriculum is high quality, well-sequenced, and is planned to demonstrate progression. Our Art and Design curriculum aims to help equip children with the knowledge and skills that they need to be able to actively question information and form and share opinions about Art and Design in the world around them. Children will be able to ask perceptive questions, think critically, weigh evidence, sift arguments, and develop perspective and judgement.  

At Hill View, the Art and Design curriculum will enable children to gain a coherent knowledge and understanding of art currently and in the past. It will also inspire children’s curiosity to know more about the past. Art and Design helps children to understand the complexity of people’s lives, the process of change, the diversity of societies and relationships between different groups, as well as their own identity and the challenges of their time. At Hill View, we also enable children to better understand the world around them by understanding its Art and Design and continued change. Children will also have a variety of role models throughout Art and Design that they can also identify with.  

If children are keeping up with the curriculum, they are deemed to be making good or better progress.  

We measure the impact of our curriculum through the following methods:  

• tracking of knowledge in Art and Design sketchbooks and pupil voice
• tracking of knowledge in post-learning quizzes 
• challenge questions for children to apply their learning in a creative and informed manner

Art and Design learning is loved by teachers and pupils across the school. Teachers have high expectations, and more quality evidence can be presented in a variety of ways. All children use technical vocabulary accurately, and pupils are expected to know, apply, and understand the knowledge, skills and processes specified. Children improve their inquiry skills and inquisitiveness about the world around them and their impact through art and design on the world. Children will become more confident in learning how to analyse their work and giving their opinion on their own and other works of art. Children show competence in improving their resilience and perseverance by continually evaluating and improving their work. All children in school can speak confidently about their art and design work and their acquired skills, which underpin this work.