Art & DesiGN

"There is no must in art because art is free."

Wassily Kandinsky.

Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity.  At Lawn Primary School, our high quality art and design curriculum engages, inspires and challenges children, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.  As children progress, they think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design.  they are taught how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.  We encourage children to develop their creative and imaginative talents through learning skills and techniques and using a variety of materials and tools.  Children have opportunities to work with professional artists and crafts people, and visit galleries and exhibitions.  they learn to appreciate works of art and use artistic language to describe paintings, sculptures and other artefacts

Throughout the school art is taught through discrete and sometimes topic related lessons.  Children experience working from a range of starting points and explore the use of various media as they move through the school.  In foundation stage, they explore the use of paints, pencils, chalks, pastels, clay and collage materials.  Within Key Stage One and Two, children develop their ideas through focused lessons and by exploring artists and their techniques.  Children work in 2D and 3D and have opportunities to work on individual and group activities, on both small and large scale.  Within the curriculum for art and design, children think about pattern, colour, texture, shape and form using various media.  They learn to evaluate their work and consider how they might change their work in future.  Children investigate and evaluate a wide range of creative outcomes from the past and present to develop rigorous understanding of the many disciplines with art, craft and design and how they shape our history and future.  This enables children to contribute as confident citizens and future professionals to the culture, creativity, economic success, leisure, material and emotional wellbeing of our society within both national and global contexts.  Each year we hold a Culture and Creative Arts Week which focuses around an aspect of the Arts.  Lawn Primary School is currently working towards our Arts Mark.