Art
Art vision at St John’s including the EYFS curriculum
Our vision at St John’s, through the teaching of Art, is for our children to become confident, independent artists who can articulate and value their own creativity. Our art curriculum fires children's imaginations and focuses on their creative journey rather than a prescribed outcome. Children are encouraged to take creative risks, develop personal expression and to learn from their own creative journey.
At St John’s, we use Kapow Primary to support our Art curriculum. The Kapow Primary scheme of work encourages:
• Generating ideas - encouraging autonomy, developing creativity, generating original ideas through experimentation.
• Making skills - becoming familiar with the formal elements of art, developing practical knowledge of a variety of media and materials; exploring and testing out different creative methods, tools and techniques.
• Evaluating and analysing - discussing art using appropriate language to analyse a creative work; considering how art is studied, discussed and judged; examining what art is and why people make it.
• Knowledge of artists - exploring traditional and contemporary artists, craft-makers and designers from diverse communities; studying the materials, processes and meaning of these artists.
• Using sketchbooks - documenting and trying out different ideas and media; evaluating and evolving children’s artwork.
Whilst we use the Kapow curriculum for Art at St John’s, we also understand that each child is different therefore we adapt Art teaching and learning to meet the needs of our children.
