######## 1. Aims and objectives

The aims of Art and Design are:

- • To enable all children to have access to a varied range of high quality art experiences
- • To provide an imaginative, innovative and co-ordinated art programme which will foster enthusiasm for art and design amongst all the children
- • To foster an enjoyment and appreciation of the visual arts and a knowledge of artists, craftspeople and designers, through links with the local and wider multicultural community and see themselves as artists
- • To stimulate children’s creativity and imagination by providing visual, tactile and sensory experience
- • To help children explore the world at first hand, using all their senses and experimentation, and so gain knowledge and understanding of the world in which they live
- • To develop children’s understanding of colour, form, texture, pattern and their ability to use materials and processes to communicate ideas, feelings and meanings
- • To inspire confidence, value and pleasure in art
- • To cultivate children’s aesthetic awareness and enable them to make informed judgements about art and become actively involved in shaping environments
- • To teach children to express their own ideas, feelings, thoughts and experiences
- • To develop children’s design capability
- • To enhance children’s ability to value the contribution made by artists, craft workers and designers and respond critically and imaginatively to ideas, images and objects.
- 2. Curriculum

## EYFS

There is an emphasis on creative work in the reception class as this is part of the Foundation Stage curriculum. This links the creative development of the children to the objectives set out in the Early Learning Goals, which underpin the curriculum planning for children aged three to five. The children’s learning includes art, music, dance, role-play and imaginative play. The range of experience encourages children to make connections between one area of learning and another and so extends their understanding.

## Key Stage 1

During Key Stage 1, Art and Design is about expanding children’s creativity and imagination. This is achieved through providing art, craft and design activities relating to the children’s own identity and experiences, to natural and manufactured objects and materials with which they are familiar, and the locality in which they live.

- • To use a range of materials creatively to design and make products: children will explore the visual, tactile and sensory qualities of materials and processes; children are taught the basics of using brushes, pencils and clay; non-conventional ways of painting should also be explored to investigate different effects, eg painting with twigs or cotton buds.
- • To use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination: children will begin to understand and use colour, shape and space, pattern and texture to represent their own ideas and feelings.
- • To think 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

Art Art and Design Policy February 2018