Art

At NET, our Art curriculum aims to provide a combination of progressive key practical skills alongside the development and understanding of critical creative thinking and a contextual element of significant and inspirational artworks, artists, movements and genres. Each project undertaken will provide opportunities for independent creative thinking, critical problem solving and cross-curricular links.

Our young artists will learn the importance and application of the foundation elements and principles of the arts and craft:

• Form
• Pattern
• Shape
• Tone
• Texture
• Colour

The curriculum follows the Kapow Primary scheme of work and has been strengthened so that pupils revisit the learning in a spiral continuum curriculum. Pupils revisit strands and skills again, each time covering the same strand but with greater complexity and depth. As the pupils return to a previous strand, prior learning is utilised, providing pupils with the foundations and building blocks in order to retain new information in the long-term memory. In each unit, pupils will also have the opportunity to research, design, make and evaluate.