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Art

At Townville Academy we believe that being creative and expressing ourselves is extremely important. Across the school we explore a wide range of artists, both modern and classical. All classes work closely with our Art Specialist, Emma Bairstow, to ensure every child has the opportunity to experiment with different materials and produce high-quality artwork they can be proud of.

Each year we also hold a Community Art Gallery, a brilliant celebration of creativity. Each child creates artwork around a shared theme, which is then showcased in an exhibition. This special event brings pupils, families and the wider community together to celebrate talent, imagination and the power of art. 

We also have our wonderful Art studio space in EYFS through which we seek to emerge our youngest pupils with the full breadth of their creative development.

Our Curriculum Statement for Art

At Townville Academy, we aspire to offer the best possible early education for all our children in a happy, safe, inclusive environment.  

Our school values of aspire, collaborate, and explore are threaded throughout our Art curriculum.  Within each unit, we aim to promote a love of Art, exposing children to significant artists and artist movements. We allow children to work collaboratively so that children can experience a sense of shared pride and achievement in their work. Our children explore a diverse range of artists from different backgrounds, including artists within the local area where possible. We hope that through this, children will experience how art has the opportunity to change the world around them and encourage children to engage with creative practices.  

Through our Art Curriculum we aim to ensure our Key Stage 1 children: 

  • Develop as confident and keen artists, inspired to explore many ways to create their own works of art, craft, and design using a range of artistic media and techniques. 

  • Have the knowledge and understanding to make links to how art and design shapes our history and our daily lives. 

  • Gain knowledge of significant artists and works of art. 

  • Reflect and use knowledge they have gained of significant artists and pieces of art to describe, make links, and evaluate similarities and difference. 

  • Become confident in using a range of media and artistic techniques and to explore their ideas and record their experiences. 

  • Understand the value and importance of Art in our society and in the wider world.  

This builds upon the children’s prior knowledge gained through the foundation stage for Art where children: 

  • Safely use and explore a variety of tools. 

  • Learnt to use a variety of materials and techniques to create what they design. 

  • Experiment with colour and colour mixing. 

  • Express their own ideas and feelings through their creations and explain how they have achieved them. 

  • Look at other artists and say what they like and don’t like about their work. 

  • Create portraits and then look at how to improve them. 

  • Learn to draw with increased complexity and accuracy.  

Our Long-term plan for Art

KS1 Art Long-term plan

Cycle A

Beneath our Feet

Playful Patterns

On Our Street

Concepts

Drawing, Painting, Mark Making,

Drawing, Print Making

Drawing, Sculpture

Overview

In our Beneath Our Feet topic, we will explore the hidden world of miners through art. We will learn how to use pencils to create light and dark shading, study the work of Varie Gantz to understand mood and feeling, and use paint to create a tunnel with light at the center. We will design and draw a miner using simple shapes, then bring our ideas to life by cutting, collaging, and adding texture with different materials. By the end, we will have created a final piece that shows both a miner and their underground world, and we will reflect on what we enjoyed and how we can improve as artists.

In our Playful Patterns topic, we will explore how patterns can be created using shapes, lines, and repeated designs. We will experiment with a range of techniques including drawing, stenciling, and printmaking to create our own repeating patterns on different surfaces. We will study the work of Yayoi Kusama, exploring how she uses dots and shapes to create bold, playful artwork. Using her ideas as inspiration, we will design and create our own patterned pieces, develop our skills in repetition, colour, and composition, and reflect on our work as artists.

 

In our On Our Street topic, we will explore buildings and architecture by creating our own 3D relief sculptures inspired by the work of Friedensreich Hundertwasser. We will look closely at unusual shapes, patterns, and bright colours, and use these ideas to design our own imaginative buildings. Using materials such as cardboard, we will learn how to cut, layer, and join shapes to build structures that stand out from the surface. We will add details like windows and doors and explore primary and secondary colours to decorate our work. Finally, we will combine all our individual buildings to create a large collaborative street scene, and reflect on our work as sculptors.

Cycle B

Still Life

Beautiful Birds

Save Our Oceans

Concepts

Drawing, Painting

Print Making

3D artwork

Overview

Still Life Artists use space and shape to create interesting compositions, they arrange objects in different ways. Vincent Van Gogh used mark making techniques to make quick drawings of what he saw in nature. As artists, we can draw in different ways with different media.

Printmakers use printing blocks to create pictures and repeating patterns. Mark Hearld makes pictures and prints of nature including beautiful birds. He makes a Collagraph printing block by adding different textured materials to build up the surface of the block.  He then uses the block to make lots of identical prints. We can make our own collagraph printing block by adding different materials to card.  We can print it using a rolling tray, rollers, paint and paper.

An Environmental artist makes artwork to share important ideas and messages about the environment.  Environmental artists use natural, ma-made and recycled materials to make 3D artwork and sculptures.  We can make our own 3D artwork to show how plastic is harmful to sea animals.  We can cut, shape and join recycled materials to build a sea animal using simple joining techniques.