INTENT

At Shadsworth Junior School, through art, craft, and design, we aim to engage, inspire and challenge pupils by introducing them to a broad range of techniques, materials, and artists, craftspeople, and designers.

We want to equip children with the knowledge and skills to experiment, explore, take risks, invent and create. It will enable them to be authentic and explore their own identity as well as being curious about respecting and connecting with others. Most importantly, we want them to foster a positive, life-long relationship with the subject and have fun. We want our children to know that they are artists, craft makers, and designers!

The roots of our curriculum focus on the knowledge and skills within our progression documents however, a key element for us is the emphasis placed on the identification and utilisation of cross-curricular links for learning to become more meaningful and enrich the learning experience for the children. Furthermore, when considering the content of our curriculum, we have thought carefully about our locality and heritage. We have a range of significant artists who were born locally and these are referred to throughout our curriculum.

IMPLEMENTATION

IMPACT

• We collect visual evidence to show what art, craft and design look like within our school
• We follow the learning journey of pupils to show how they have grown throughout their time with us. It's an ongoing journey and is continually changing.
• Assessment in the art curriculum is a holistic process and teaches pupils: how to become independent artists, craft makers, and designers, to know and understand the creative process, to ask themselves the right questions, and to be able to accept praise and take advice in equal measures.
• The NSEAD assessment framework is used to assess children's ability to work within the four key concept areas: generating ideas, making, knowledge and understanding, and evaluating.