“If you dream about something you put your ideas down on paper in art."

Violet, Y5

At Codnor Primary School, Art and Design plays a vital role in our commitment to “Let Your Light Shine.” Through creative exploration, every child is encouraged to discover, develop and celebrate their unique talents. Our Art and Design curriculum supports the purposeful journey of the whole child, providing meaningful opportunities for pupils’ creativity to flourish.

Children are given the freedom and confidence to express their ideas, emotions and understanding using a wide range of materials and techniques. They learn to articulate their thoughts using appropriate artistic vocabulary, take inspiration from a diverse range of artists and cultures, and reflect on their work in order to evaluate and improve. Pupils are encouraged to take creative risks, demonstrate resilience and embrace challenge—key skills that support learning across all areas of the curriculum.

Art and Design at Codnor is both an individual and collaborative experience. Pupils confidently apply the skills they develop within cross-curricular learning, enabling them to explore topics in greater depth and represent their understanding in creative and meaningful ways.

Our carefully structured curriculum goes beyond the National Curriculum expectations, enriching pupils’ experiences and building cultural capital. Through exposure to multicultural artists, styles and enrichment opportunities, we help our children grow into well-rounded, reflective and confident individuals—ready to let their light shine now and in the future.

Aims:

• The ability to use visual language skillfully and convincingly (for example, line, shape, pattern, colour, texture, form) to express emotions, interpret observations,
• convey insights and accentuate their individuality.
• The ability to communicate fluently in visual and tactile form.
• The ability to draw confidently and adventurously from observation, memory and imagination.
• The ability to explore and invent marks, develop and deconstruct ideas and communicate perceptively and powerfully through purposeful drawing in 2D, 3D or digital media.
• An impressive knowledge and understanding of other artists, craft makers and designers.
• The ability to think and act like creative practitioners by using their knowledge and understanding to inform, inspire and interpret ideas, observations and feelings.
• Independence, initiative and originality which they can use to develop their creativity.
• The ability to select and use materials, processes and techniques skillfully and inventively to realise intentions and capitalise on the unexpected.
• The ability to reflect on, analyse and critically evaluate their own work and that of others.
• A passion for and a commitment to the subject.

Through sequences of lessons and topics, pupils' artistic skills and concepts are built, reinforced, and transferred into other contexts, allowing children to deepen their understanding and remember what they learn.

Our pupils leave Codnor Primary School with the knowledge to think, act, and and speak like an artist, and they value the transference of these skills into their everyday life, in education and beyond.

How Art & Design looks at Codnor:

This overview shows what art and design looks like in our school, when it is taught, the line of enquiry question and the artist studied.

Art & Design objective progression:

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Art & Design medium term plans:

The golden threads of Art & Design:

Pupil Voice:

Gallery:

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