Intent
At Gainsborough Primary School, we believe that art inspires creativity, imagination and inventiveness. We believe that art gives our pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to engage and express responses to ideas and experiences. It fires their imagination and is a fundamental means of personal expression. They experience art to raise awareness of key issues, immediate art that expresses different cultures and use art to their own views.
At Gainsborough, pupils are encouraged to experiment with and explore their ideas, use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials, techniques and processes. We believe every child has an inner artist waiting to be unveiled!
Implementation
Art lessons are taught weekly by our in-house art teacher, providing pupils with regular opportunities to develop their creativity, skills, and artistic confidence. Lessons are progressive across the year groups, with pupils building on prior knowledge in a range of media including drawing, painting, collage, textiles, and sculpture. Each year group studies key artists across a variety of genres, ensuring exposure to diverse styles and techniques.
Art learning is linked to history and geography topics where appropriate, creating meaningful cross-curricular connections. Children recreate art through history and art that spans the globe, learning about why and how people have made art from a variety of periods in time and a variety of cultures.
Children are given the opportunity to talk, reflect and appreciate others’ and their own art work. Pupils are given clear guidance on skills through excellent teacher modelling and are given the opportunity to experiment for themselves.
Artwork is celebrated through the school’s displays, Instagram account and website for others to see and for children to share with their families.
Impact
Art and design is loved by teachers and pupils across the school. Through our art curriculum, pupils develop creativity, technical skills, and confidence across drawing, painting, collage, textiles, and sculpture, building progressively each year. They are able to reflect on their own work and set personal goals, demonstrating analytical thinking.
Regular teaching by our in-house art teacher ensures cross-curricular links to history and geography and knowledge of key artists across genres. Pupils experiment with ideas, including sustainable materials, producing work that shows growing independence, creativity and critical evaluation skills. Pupils can use technical vocabulary accurately and are confident in analysing their work and giving their opinion on their own work and other works of art.
Latest Art posts from Instagram
Year built Tudor houses in art and watched them burn, very quickly, as part of their learning in history about the Great Fire of London. Year 3 were respectful, safe and sensible throughout. Well done Year 2! #keepsafe
Feb 15
Nursery have been reading the story ‘Winter.’ They have been using blues, purples and silvers to make winter themed art using excellent fine motor skills. Well done Nursery, great snowflakes! ❄️
Jan 26
Reception penguins. Reception have looked at line using paint, shading using chalk and drawn from a picture in art. They have created some amazing winter inspired pictures. Well done reception! 🐧
Jan 23
Year 6 worked through the 100 climate actions from @ling.tan.ql low carbon banquet. They chose some that we are going to to work on as a school and presented a very persuasive argument to our art teacher, food educator and headteacher about how we as a school can take more actions to tackle climate change. Watch this space! #keepgreen
Nov 25
Weaving in the Oasis with Year 2. Year 2 have been weaving in art, as part of their topic ‘Clothes.’ They took this outside this week, exploring the technique of weaving with different materials.
Nov 25
Meet our Nursery class! Nursery have been identifying their facial features and what make them them! Well done Nursery, great art work.
Sep 25
Colour mixing in Nursery with our specialist art teacher.
May 29
Year 3 have worked hard in art to produce a tonal study- working from light to dark. Well done Year 3, excellent work. 🎨
May 7
Year 1 launched into their Australia topic with some aboriginal art today. 🎨 Well done year 1!
Apr 24
Nursery fauvism farm animals in art this week. 🐄 🐓 🐑
Mar 11
Year 5 have been making Canopic Jars in art, linking to their history learning about the Ancient Egyptians. 🐱 🏺 ⚱️
Mar 11
Nursery pop art! Nursery have been reading the Naughty Bus and have completed prints of buses on some busy Warhol inspired printed paper. Well done Nursery! 🚌
Feb 23