Art and Design
Subject Intent
The Art and Design curriculum at Whitehill Community Academy is delivered through timetabled lessons, trips and visits. When designing the Art and Design curriculum, the full national curriculum for art was taken into consideration, ensuring that pupils are exposed to all of the aims and more.
The Art and Design curriculum builds and prepares pupils to develop their knowledge, skills, ideas and expertise through the pedagogy of Art, in order to achieve fluency, authenticity and experiment within the topic throughout their primary education.
The curriculum will support and scaffold pupils cumulatively sufficient understanding of the diversity and traditions of Art via cultural, economic, social and political factors. We will broaden pupils’ frame of thought and feelings about the world around them through the existing values of Whitehill, becoming ready, respectful and responsible artists.
The curriculum will enable pupils to enhance purposeful imagination so they can effectively interpret, analyse, communicate and sustain ideas through individual pieces of Art. The curriculum will serve to develop pupils’ ability to self-express and provide the foundation for them to build resilience and independence throughout their time at Whitehill.
The Art and Design curriculum provides an ambitious and coherent curriculum that equips pupils to know and remember the practical, theoretical and philosophical knowledge that they will need to succeed in building the relationship between Art and human life. It makes clear links in each lesson indicating the how, what and ways of Art to enable them to navigate past, present and future art, artists and artistic cultures.
Golden Threads
To enable our subject leaders to provide a robust approach to the Art and Design curriculum, knowledge and skills are structured so that each term and year build upon one another. This is done by mapping out the ‘Golden Threads’ of our Art and Design curriculum. Through mapping out the ‘Golden Threads’ we can ensure that pupils are given lots of opportunities to perfect their skills, knowledge and understanding.
The Golden Threads of ‘Art and Design’ are:
- Drawing
- Painting
- Sculpture
