At Wisborough Green Primary School, the Arts are seen as the embodiment of human creativity. Art inspires personal expression, cultural understanding and taking creative risks. It provides our children with the skills, concepts, and knowledge necessary to express their responses to the world around them. From mark-making and starting to explore media, materials and a range of tools in Early Years, children go on to extend their skills across school, with opportunities to express their ideas and feelings using a variety of artistic effects.We aspire to equip our children with the ability to confidently experiment, take risks and create with a variety of mediums. They are inspired by different artists and the cultures and history that they represent.
Pupils become artists by:
- Observing closely, listening and responding to what they see
- Experimenting and using a wide range of skills and techniques to create pieces that involve 3D, textiles, paint, collage and a range of mark making equipment
- Expressing themselves and their feelings
- Designing and planning
- Using and expanding their imagination
- Looking critically at their own and others’ art work
- Asking questions about their own and others’ art
- Being inspired by different artists, craft pieces and their cultures.
At Wisborough Green children learn sketching, painting, printing, collage, and 3D sculpture repeatedly through our two-year cycle so that children build on pre-existing skills. To explore the cross-curriculum links with all subjects, where possible, we relate art to the topic studied.
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Cycle A |
Cycle B |
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Topic |
Time Riders |
Extreme Survival |
Your Majesty |
Far Away and Long Ago |
Ingenious Engineering |
Wild Wisborough |
KS1 |
Sketching and 3D Sculpture |
Sketching and Painting |
Collage and Printing |
Sketching and 3D Sculpture |
Sketching and Painting
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Collage and Printing
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Lower KS2 |
Sketching and 3D Sculpture
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Sketching and Painting
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Collage and Printing
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Sketching and 3D Sculpture
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Sketching and Painting
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Collage and Printing |
Upper KS2 |
Sketching and 3D sculpture |
Sketching and Painting |
Collage and Printing |
Sketching and 3D sculpture |
Collage and Printing |
Sketching and painting |
Online art projects
Remember Art and Design doesn’t have to involve paint and sketching pencils. Look at the website below for some fun art activities.
A brilliant gallery website with heaps of fun ideas.
This is an amazing resource for all sorts of things, from virtual museum tours, to exploring artists and their work, to sourcing contextual referencing for projects. It is an amazing for research for KS2-Post 16.
weareteachers.com/best-kindergarten-art-projects
We are Teachers has compiled '40 Kindergarten Art Projects That Inspire Creativity in Every Student’. There are links to a range of other websites with full details for the projects, which can be adapted for older learners.
bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zyg4d2p
A range of BBC clips themed by discipline, visual & tactile elements; Media and materials; Inspiration and investigation; Design Activities.
magiclanternart.org.uk/what-we-do/downloadable-resources
Magic Lantern is an educational charity that runs interactive art history workshops.