Art AND DESIGN AND DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY

At Stechford Primary School we provide a high-quality Art and Design and Design and Technology education which enables our pupils to develop an enthusiasm for these subjects, whilst ensuring we fulfil the aims of the National Curriculum. This is achieved through using the Kapow Primary’s combined Art and Design and Design and Technology curriculum. 

Through the combined subjects, children will complete three units of Art and Design and three units of Design and Technology within each year, which enables the best overall skills coverage when combined with the Design and technology units. Please refer to the curriculum overview for these subjects to view the units your child will be covering.

Art and Design

The Art and design units have been given the titles Drawing, Painting and mixed media, Sculpture and 3D and Craft and design to make skills progression within the spiral curriculum more easily identifiable. However, it is important to remember that skills in Art and design flow between units; the curriculum has been designed to be holistic. You will find that, for example, drawing skills appear in almost every unit; children may apply what they have learned about mixed-media to a task in a Sculpture and 3D unit, and so on. When identifying skills for assessment, it will help to consider skills coverage from across all the units taught within the year group.

The Kapow Art scheme of work is designed with strands that run throughout. These are:

• Generating ideas
• Using sketchbooks
• Makings skills, including formal elements (line, shape, tone, texture, pattern, colour)
• Knowledge of artists
• Evaluating and analysing

Units of lessons are sequential, allowing children to build their skills and knowledge, applying them to a range of outcomes. The formal elements, a key part of the national curriculum, are also woven throughout units. Key skills are revisited again and again with increasing complexity in a spiral curriculum model. This allows pupils to revise and build on their previous learning. Units in each year group are organised into four core areas:

• Drawing
• Painting and mixed-media
• Sculpture and 3D
• Craft and design

The units fully scaffold and support age appropriate sequenced learning, and are flexible enough to be adapted to form cross-curricular links with your own school’s curriculum. Creativity and independent outcomes are robustly embedded into the units, supporting students in learning how to make their own creative choices and decisions, so that their art outcomes, whilst still being knowledge-rich, are unique to the pupils.

EYFS

In EYFS, art and design is taught through the specific area of learning and development; expressive arts and design. This is delivered through using the Kapow Primary Art and Design scheme and through exploration and child-initiated play. Units within the Kapow scheme are organised into four core areas:

• Drawing
• Painting and mixed-media
• Sculpture and 3D
• Craft and design

Design and Technology

For Design and technology, the units have been carefully selected to ensure gradual progression towards the National curriculum end of key stage attainment targets and to cover all of the four strands shown below in enough detail.

• Design
• Make
• Evaluate
• Technical knowledge

The national curriculum Programme of study for Design and technology aims to ensure that all pupils over the year groups will:

• develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
• build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users.
• critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others.
• understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.

EYFS

In EYFS, design and technology is taught through the specific area of learning and development; expressive arts and design. This is delivered through using the Kapow Primary  Design and Technology scheme and through exploration and child-initiated play. 

 

To find out more about our early years curriculum, visit this page.