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Being an Artist: an approach to Art at Filton Avenue Primary
Intent
Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
The aims of being an Artist are:
To produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- To become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- To evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- To know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
Where does it come from?
Being an Artist is integrated into our curriculum through an enquiry-led, local learning approach. This approach recognises that the cognitive maturity of learners affects how and what they learn. It encourages learners to be an Artist and develop their disciplinary knowledge as well as their substantive knowledge of artistic concepts.
Implementation
What does being a lead Artist entail?
- Provide encouragement and ideas to staff across the school. Know when Artist enquiries are happening and speak with the relevant year groups.
- Ensure visits and experiences are carried out and provide support regarding this.
- Monitor content, progression and enquiries and be mindful of coverage ‘v’ skill acquisition.
- Support with the development of skills and knowledge progressions.
- Lead staff training sessions.
- Drive the development of being an Artist, sharing best practice.
- Evaluate being an Artist and complete a Deep Dive analysis.
- Ensure enquiry planning and floor books (or alternative evidence) are sufficient to effectively represent the state of being you lead.
- Lead a group of children to be “Champions” for the subject and use this group to gather different voices across the school.
- With the State of Being Champions, create an annual newsletter for your state of being, which is sent to families and shared on our website and other social media channels. This should celebrate learning, create aspiration and centre children in current affairs for that state of being.
- Working closely with these Champions, have a strong focus on developing pupil voice, ensuring our pupils know their thoughts are valued and providing evidence of the positive impact of our curriculum.
- Lead being an Artist in line with the school improvement plan and curriculum action plan so that you are sensitive to, and understand how, whole school improvement has to be considered strategically in order to have the best effect and not overwhelm staff.
What is ‘covered’?
Essentially, a Curious-city curriculum uses the National Curriculum 2014 areas as a basic foundation of entitlement. However Curious-city is much more than that. It is localised, real-life and challenges learners to apply their learning in unique ways without the support of adults to prove what they have learnt. Local companies, charities, organisations, individuals and objects are used as foci to enhance and instill a sense of curiosity, pride and stewardship.
Impact
How is Being an Artist monitored and assessed?
Every term, Being Champions meet as a team (the Enquiry hub) to discuss and share what they are seeing and hearing and, working as a team, help to review the school’s curriculum and contribute to the Enquiry action plan.
Twice a year, Being Champions work with the Enquiry leads to review floor books and enquiry books to ensure coverage and progress across the school for their state of being.
As there is no requirement to formally report attainment of Art, Being an Artist is assessed through monitoring how a learner responds to enquiries and whether they show a particular enthusiasm and disposition towards it, or, if they constantly needed support in order to access it. This information is recorded on the Enquiry crib sheets which are kept and used for report writing towards the end of the year. These are then passed on to the next teacher to use to support future learning.
National Curriculum coverage linked to our enquiries
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