St. Peter's Catholic Primary School

The intention of our Art and Design curriculum is to inspire and develop our children’s creative thinking; to explore, experiment and take risks. Our curriculum is broad, balanced and rich, developing the children’s proficiency, knowledge and skills in a variety of techniques, including drawing, painting, sculpture, textiles, printing, collage and digital media. Children at St. Peter’s school explore their ideas through well-sequenced lessons and record their learning in sketchbooks, building on prior learning and producing creative, imaginative, skilful work. The children explore the work from a range of diverse artists, designers and craft makers, including artists from the local area, evaluating different creative ideas in order to develop appreciation of all form of Art and Design. Our Art and Design curriculum is fully inclusive and we aim to foster a love of Art that the children can explore further in their future lives. 

The documents that we have available are: 

• Curriculum Content 
  - This document shows the sequence of learning throughout Art and Design. 
• Knowledge Organisers
  - This document is for our children, it contains prior knowledge from previous learning, key vocabulary for each Art and Design topic as well as the key knowledge that will be taught throughout the unit of work. 
• Progression of Knowledge and Skills
  - This document shows how learning progresses in Art and Design from Foundation Stage right through to YEar 6.
• Knowledge Keys
  - This document is used half way through each Art and Design unit and is there to help the children know more and remember more.
• End of Unit Assessments 
  - This document is used with the children at the end of each unit of work and is there to help the children know more and remember more as well as forming part of our teacher assessment.