Art

• Being and feeling safe and healthy: working safely so that we can confidently experiment and explore ideas and ways of working, learning from inevitable mistakes                                                                                       

• Personal development:  Engaging all students in learning about visual culture that develops personal creativity, resilience, the willingness to take appropriate risks and the confidence to express feelings, thoughts and ideas: developing a sense of self.

Competence

• Strong foundations: Developing student’s ability to use accurately and expressively a variety of skills, techniques and materials with confidence

• Science of learning: using the best research on how students learn and connecting it through practical application of modelling, questioning, building skills and concepts over time to create independent thinkers and makers

• Knowledge and skills: building substantive and disciplinary knowledge over time through repeated practice enabling students to make well-informed, good choices about their work and to understand and formulate connections between their work and the work of others therefore being able to create a personal response through practice and understanding context: nurturing creativity

• Assessment: teachers use live marking with students building a portfolio of work to demonstrate and catalogue knowledge, skills and understanding

• Digital fluency: developing cataloguing, capturing and manipulation skills to work hand in hand with traditional learning and skills

Community

• Academy community: inspiring students to develop a lifelong love, appreciation and understanding of a wide range of creative styles, traditions and contexts through considering the place of visual communication in their world as they become global citizens

• Local community: improving health and wellbeing of themselves and others through their mindful practice and through sharing their practice in different ways within the local community

• National and global citizenship: learning about issues and events through art encouraging students to consider their rights and responsibilities as productive humans

• Beyond the classroom: contributing to their futures though actively working sustainably and considerately of and for others: promoting ambition

Subject Intent

The visual arts make a vital contribution to children’s development in many ways both explicitly and implicitly.

To understand visual culture is to be able to access the world in which we live. Our core concepts enable our students to develop their understanding of Art and visual culture across time. To practice Art presents students with the opportunity to learn and develop creative skills and techniques with different materials and processes discovering confidence and channels of self-expression.

We study Art to inspire that personal expression, foster curiosity of the world around us and explore the limitless capabilities of our imagination whilst engaging with different cultures, historical events as well as providing opportunities to question, critique and make decisions. Our Art curriculum enables our young people to work independently, work collaboratively, develop resilience, problem solve, manage time and resources and ask the big questions; encouraging them to become thinkers, researchers, observers, makers and creators.

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Should you have any queries or would like further information regarding this subject please contact Mrs C Toogood (Subject Lead) via email: Charlotte.Toogood@oasisbrislington.org