Welcome to our Art & Design page. Here you can find lots of information about Art & Design across our school.
At Bowburn Primary School, we value Art and Design as an important part of our broad and balanced curriculum. We aim to provide the children with opportunities to develop and extend their knowledge, skills and creativity through a variety of new opportunities – both in class and through links with local artists and art organisations. By following our curriculum, children will build the confidence to take risks and turn ‘mistakes’ into successes, whilst also expressing their individual interests, thoughts and ideas through experimentation. Children have the opportunity to develop and appreciate their own style of art, as well as understand how diverse and creative the subject is. Overall, we aim to provide a high-quality art and design education which engages, inspires and challenges pupils to be ambitious. As pupils progress through the key stages, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of Art and Design.
Our curriculum focusses on providing children with all of the important skills and knowledge they need in the subject, to allow every child the opportunity to succeed and make progress from EYFS to Year 6.
Our Art & Design lead is Mrs Welch.
Useful Documents
Art and Design Progression of Skills
Art & Design at Bowburn
Nursery
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- Exploring Judaism – has this religion changed over the years?
Reception
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- Portraits created by nursery children in the style of Picasso, practicing their collage skills and creativity!
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- The children talked about the art work they had created.
Year 1
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- Children in year 1 drew around a variety of shapes and overlapped them to create this piece of art.
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- Applying an understanding of drawing materials and mark making to draw from observation.
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- Learning how to create different kinds of lines using a pencil.
Year 2
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- They also experimented with a craft technique to develop a map idea into an abstract composition.
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- Year 2 went on a texture hunt and learned how texture can be created with paint.
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- Using rollers and printing ink to test their print design.
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- Year 2 observed, learned and applied the steps of the felt-making process, copying the shapes and colours from their map square in wool. They shaped wool by twisting and tearing it.
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- Working independently to apply ink to the poly-block.
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- A fabulous finished piece of printing onto fabric, a collaboration of all of the children’s work in class.
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- Year 2 explored maps and drew their own of a journey which was familiar to them.
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- Children used simple lines and shapes from their map drawing to design a printing tile.
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- Developing knowledge of colour mixing.
Year 3
Year 4
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- Exploring charcoal as a drawing material – looking for light and dark areas and recreating these using tone.
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- In year 4, children used scissors with precision and made decisions about how to place the elements into a composition.
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- Children worked in a group to experiment with printing techniques by using contrast and pattern.
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- Printing on fabric.
Year 5
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- Year 5 identified and compared features of art installations.
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- They looked at a variety of art installations to identify similarities and differences, as well as analyse them.
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- They also researched the work of Chinese artist Cai Guo Qiang.
Year 6
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- Photo montage.
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- Exploring the art of Julian Opie.
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- Creating their own portraits in the style of Julian Opie.
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- Charcoal portraits in the style of Kathe Kollwitz. including annotations of how they created the artwork.
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- Unique and individual work from year 6 showing individual style and character.
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- WW2 chalk artwork capturing mood and creating impact with minimal media.
