ART at FOREST HILLS
TEACHING ART IN SCHOOL
A high-quality art and design education should inspire, engage, and challenge children – enabling them to communicate what they see, feel and think through the use of line, colour, shape, space, form, texture, tone and value.
Our art curriculum is a knowledge rich curriculum that has been implemented using the Primary Knowledge Curriculum. Knowledge, in the realm of art means knowledge not only of artists, designers, architects and their work, but of the artistic concepts that relate to styles of art. The curriculum is designed to enable children to learn by making connections between the work of artists and their own work, which they evaluate and relate back to the works of others.
Meaningful opportunities for self-expression and individual response are woven through our curriculum, giving children space to learn who they are as an artist.
Our children will have the opportunity to experiment with the different media used to make art, different subject matter and different artistic movements, historical periods or geographical cultures.
The overall scheme of the curriculum provides for gradual progression in terms of skills, introducing the children to as diverse a range of materials as possible. It also provides for progression in terms of knowledge of different concepts and types of art. The structure of the planning also provides for progression in terms of process in art, both in terms of critical analysis of others’ art and the necessary observation, exploration and evaluation needed for the children to create their own art.
WHY IS ART IMPORTANT TO OUR CHILDREN?
Osman - Year 2
“I used paint to make tints. Some were dark, some were light.”
Finley - Year 4
“I like drawing and making sculptures out of papier mache.”
Perri-Leigh - Year 6
“I love Art because it is a peaceful thing for me to do. Art lessons have helped me to improve my drawing.”
EYFS
In Early Years, there are opportunities planned in the environment for children to ‘create with materials’. There is a creative area and a junk modelling area which can be accessed throughout the day.