Art & Design

Art & Design

At LMPS, Art lessons aim to stimulate creativity, imagination and inventiveness through equipping children with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art. Art should enable children to communicate what they see, feel and think. Children will experiment with the use of colour, texture, form, line, shape, pattern and tone. These form the key elements that are woven within our Art curriculum and we build upon throughout the progression of key knowledge and skills.

We nurture our pupils’ understanding across a range of media to help them to think critically and gain a more rigorous understanding of art and design. We want our children to know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.

A range of integrated experiences are carefully planned to fit in with our half termly learning projects, where relevant to do so, for children to develop a range of skills in a meaningful and purposeful way.

We use sketchbooks to help children to develop their ideas and to show and assess progression in their artistic knowledge, understanding and related skills. The children learn to improve their mastery of art and design techniques by learning specific drawing, painting, printing and sculpture techniques. The children use technology to produce images, patterns and decorative pieces of work. They will record their observations and ideas and use them to review and evaluate improvements. They take inspiration from nature and from a range of design examples and will also learn about great artists, architects and designers in history.