Arts Hub Leader:

Jo-Ann Wright is a Senior Leader at Sandgate Primary School, with over 18 years of teaching experience working across a range of year groups and also worked for many years as a Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Co-ordinator (SENCO).

Jo-Ann believes passionately that the Arts prepare children for a successful and fulfilling future. It cultivates creativity, critical thinking, problem-solving skills and emotional intelligence. Through the Arts, children develop and enhance their collaboration and teamwork skills, visual and spatial abilities, and their cultural awareness and understanding. 

 

Curriculum Vision: Art

The aim of the Art curriculum at Sandgate Primary is to progressively build knowledge, such that all pupils are supported to know more and do more as they move through the school, on to secondary education and into later life. The curriculum is designed around both substantive and disciplinary concepts to ensure that all pupils successfully learn the discipline of Art, along with the practical and theoretical knowledge that comprises the subject. The curriculum is supported by rigorous assessment approaches that accord all pupils the opportunity to demonstrate what they know and can do, whilst allowing gaps to be identified and addressed without impacting negatively on learning.

 

Substantive Threads: Art

Each unit within the Art curriculum at Sandgate is designed to progressively develop the following practical and theoretical strands of substantive knowledge:

• Methods & techniques: shading, printmaking, collaging, painting, sketching, tracing, sculpting.
• Media and materials: using pencil, pen, paper, wire, clay, paint.
• Formal elements: line, tone, shape, colour, form, pattern, texture, composition.
• History of Art: including similarities and differences in forms of art over time, the influence of specific artists and how they have used materials and processes.
• Meanings and interpretations: considering the ‘message’ of artwork and considering different points of view, including those of others and themselves.

Disciplinary Threads: Art

Each unit within the Art curriculum at Sandgate is designed to progressively develop children’s knowledge of the discipline of Art. Units have been organised around developing this in the following areas:

• Paradigms of art: how art through history can be classified as traditional, modern and contemporary, with each having its own purpose and conventions.
• Insight: how art is of value and this value has been expressed, how we can have preferences for types of art based on aesthetic, and how artists evaluate their work and the work of others, making links to intention and context.

 

Curriculum Documents: Art

 

An overview of the Art curriculum can be found here

 

 

 

A sample of the school curriculum for Art can be found here

 

 

 

A sample of the school assessment for Art can be found here