Welcome to Northcote’s Art and Design Page!
Our Art and Design coordinator is Mrs Dwyer.
Art at Northcote
At Northcote we believe that art is a vital part of children’s education, with a significant and valuable role in the taught curriculum. Our art curriculum will develop children’s critical abilities, as well as an understanding of their own and others’ cultural heritages through the study of a diverse range of artists.
Children will develop their understanding of the visual language of art with effective teaching and considered sequences of lessons and experiences. Understanding of the visual elements of art and design (line, tone, texture, colour, pattern, shape, 3D form) will be developed by providing a curriculum which will enable children to reach their full potential.
Our curriculum has been carefully mapped to ensure that knowledge and skills develop as the children progress throughout the school. Each year group will complete a unit focused on drawing, painting and either sculpture or printing. This allows for children to revisit their learning and develop skills over time as their knowledge increases.
Each unit of work has been carefully designed to follow a sequence which immerses the children in the work of an artist, develop key knowledge and artistic skills which will then inform their own artistic choices, create a final piece of work and then evaluate their own work and the work of others. Children use their sketchbooks as a record of their learning journey through each unit and are encouraged to self evaluate their progress throughout.
The structure of the art curriculum ensures that children are able to develop their knowledge and understanding of the work of artists, craftspeople and designers from a range of times and cultures and apply this knowledge to their own work. The consistent use of children’s sketchbooks means that children are able to review, modify and develop their initial ideas in order to achieve high quality outcomes. Children learn to understand and apply the key principles of art: line, tone, texture, shape, form, space, pattern, colour, contrast, composition, proportion and perspective. The opportunity for children to refine and develop their techniques over time is supported by effective lesson sequencing and progression between year groups. This also supports children in achieving age related expectations.
Northcote Art and Design Policy:
(Reviewed policy to be uploaded.)