Art

All staff in Greenfields Primary School strive for the same goal for all children to have equitable opportunities to explore their creative potential and produce work which reflects this with the skills and techniques taught across their school journey. 

To ensure a high-quality, broad and balanced curriculum, we use Kapow Primary as the basis of our art and design curriculum. Following this, all children are given the opportunity to develop their artistic skills and techniques, articulate and be exposed to evaluative and analytical language of their own and others' work, explore a range of different artists, craft makers and designers, as well as different historical and cultural developments of art forms.

You can find the Art Connected Curriculum Overview here.

Each curriculum topic is developed upon the basis of one of four themes: drawing, painting and mixed media, sculpture and 3D, and craft and design. These develop practical, theoretical and disciplinary art skills. The curriculum has been carefully planned out to ensure each child’s journey throughout their seven years at primary school builds on each skill, knowledge and technique progressively. 

EYFS

Art is referred to as 'Expressive Arts and Design' in EYFS. These statements taken from the Early Learning

Goals will scaffold the children's Art and Design skills before they move into KS1

• Explore, use and refine a variety of artistic effects to express their ideas and feelings.
• Return to and build on their previous learning, refining ideas and developing their ability to represent them.
• Create collaboratively, sharing ideas, resources and skills.

• 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.