At North Crescent Primary School, we encourage our children to be expressive and imaginative. The ‘Art and Design’ curriculum, based around The Dimensions Curriculum, is taught through thematic units to help the children stretch their minds beyond the boundaries of printed text and fact.

At our school, Art and Design is used to help our children understand societies, cultures and histories as well as expressing their own thoughts and feelings via a range of alternative mediums. Throughout our school, children are taught to develop their skills through; collage, textiles, photography, drawing, painting, 3D
form and sculpture as well as mixed media. Through our artwork, we learn to express ourselves confidently and creatively.

Dimensions Curriculum
 

The Dimensions Curriculum schemes of work are thematic and followed throughout school to ensure a wide exposure to different techniques and artists. It is taught through a combination of subject knowledge and skills with learning taking place both inside and outside the classroom.

National Curriculum requirements

Key Stage 1
Pupils should be taught:
• to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
• to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas,
experiences and imagination
• to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern,
texture, line, shape, form and space
• about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the
differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and
making links to their own work.

Key Stage 2
Pupils should be taught to develop their techniques, including their control and
their use of
materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of
different kinds of art, craft and design.
Pupils should be taught:
• to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and
revisit ideas
• to improve the mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing,
painting and sculpture with a range of materials (for example, pencil, charcoal,
paint, clay)
• about great artists, architects and designers in history

Children will develop skills and knowledge in art, making cross-curricular links to
other subject areas. They will be confident in producing and evaluating creative
pieces of work based on the work of others as well as using their own
imagination.