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Art and Design

At Cranbrook Primary, we intend to engage our children in exploring different forms of art, craft and design in order to enable them to develop knowledge and skills to experiment, express, and create their own works. By offering them a wide variety of culturally diverse material, we want to enhance their critical thinking skills, develop their cultural capital and a deeper understanding of the subject, as well as art forms that have shaped our history and diverse culture. Through an enriched, memorable curriculum of self-discovery and expression, we want our pupils to develop a love and appreciation of art and use it as a form of communication and self- help skill for reflection.

In our school, Art and Design centres around the school curriculum drivers of Widening Horizons, Global Identity and Responsibility and Confident Communicators. Lessons also develop our 4 school values of Respect, Resilience, Equality and Kindness. We aim to provide a personalised curriculum, that incorporates the National Curriculum (2014) and incorporates three big Ideas

Develop ideas
Master techniques
Take inspiration from the greats

Teachers plan exciting, enjoyable, and memorable learning experiences for pupils to develop and master skills of drawing, painting, collage making, sculpture, textiles and printing.

Communicate confidently when expressing about their own work and use ambitious vocabulary to analyse modern and classic art and artists fluently.
Experiment, explore and invent marks, develop, and deconstruct ideas and communicate using different mediums, refining and mastering skills.
Use the elements of art skilfully, for example, line, shape, space, pattern, colour, texture, and form to express emotions and interpret observations.
Draw confidently in 2D and 3D from observation, memory, and using their imagination.
Develop an impressive knowledge and understanding of diverse and inclusive artists, craft makers, architects and designers from history.
Produce work and think creatively in response to art from different periods, styles, both modern and classic artists and artisans, including those that reflect their cultural heritage.
Remember previously learnt skills, have the knowledge to select and use materials, processes and techniques skilfully applying them to their work, making connections to prior learning.
Be reflective learners who analyse and critically evaluate their own work and that of others using annotations and assessment tools, peer and self-assessment.