Art and Design
Miss Elia Erroi
Art and Design Subject Leader
How your child will make progress in Art during their time at Telford Infant School.
Our structured Art progression map, has a clear outline of how the art skills from the National Curriculum will be taught and the ways that they will be developed over the three years that the children are here with us. All children have systematic opportunities to recap on prior learning, learn new art skills and practise them in art lessons, cross-curricular group tasks and buddy class experiences. These art experiences enable the children to partake in both individual and collaborative tasks to create a range of art work that showcases their unique skills.
Our enriching curriculum encourages self-expression, develops fine motor skills, patience and problem-solving, increases concentration and boosts self-esteem. We allow time for our children to review and evaluate their artwork and the artwork created by others, enabling them to freely express themselves and vocalise their creativity.
Our aim by the end of each key stage, is for all children to be able to develop a sense of individuality by exploring their own creative ideas and confidently understand how to apply their skills to produce creative pieces of artwork that they are proud of.
EYFS Expressive Arts and Design ELG: Creating with Materials - Children at the expected level of development will: - Safely use and explore a variety of materials, tools and techniques, experimenting with colour, design, texture, form and function; - Share their creations, explaining the process they have used; - Make use of props and materials when role playing characters in narratives and stories.
KS1 National Curriculum Pupils should be taught: to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work.
1. British Folk Art: Exploring a range of designs for a purpose, created in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and learning that it was created by ordinary people who did not have any training, just great use of their imaginations.
2. Quentin Blake Birds, Beasts and Explorers; learning about the works and stories from illustrator and author Quentin Blake. Created our own mini beasts inspired by the works!
3. Volcano Landscapes: Explored the drama of the landscape paintings in the Naples gallery thinking about what a sea storm look likes, what sounds do volcanos make when erupting? We then built volcano landscapes using loose part materials.
Each class had a wonderful time and represented our school beautifully, with polite manners and sensible behaviour throughout the visit!