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Art and Design

“You can't use up creativity, the more you use, the more you have.”

Maya Angelou

The Art curriculum at Stansfield Hall is designed to take our children on a journey to develop their creative skills using a variety of mediums. It is designed to engage, inspire and challenge pupils, whilst equipping them with the knowledge and skills to be able to experiment, invent and create their own works of art. 

We use KAPOW as a framework for our Art Curriculum, carefully selecting from there to build a foundation that supports and develops our children to become ambitious artists with an inspiration to craft! 

Kapow Primary’s Art and design scheme of learning supports our children to meet the national curriculum end of key stage attainment targets and has been written to fully cover the National Society for Education in Art and Design’s progression competencies 

At Stansfield Hall, we break our learning down into milestones- and at the end of each of these has expected outcomes we expect our children to achieve. Each unit of Art at Stansfield Hall contains clear progression of knowledge and coverage of core skills. 

We develop their creative skills through continued opportunities for art expression, being exposed to different art forms and being encouraged to question what they see in the world. 

In EYFS, Art is developed through continuous provision and in the Early Years Framework under Physical Development and Expressive Art and Design. Their PD will focus on their fine motor skills to begin to draw with accuracy and EAAD will be the children choosing how to apply those skills when they create.  

Beginning in Maple class our children start investigating through mark marking and applying their own experiences in life to their artwork, developing colour knowledge through experimenting and then making choices about what to use.  

Our Elm children continue to build on these creative skills, through the use of different mediums such as creating collages and sculptures.  

Our Birch children take their artistic skills deeper to consider light and shadow in their artwork.  

We aim for our children to become independent, accomplished artists and art critics, finding their own style and use this as a starting point for their own creative outcomes. Our art curriculum gives them the opportunities to be inspired by artists such as Louis Wain, Ed Ruscha and Claude Monet; the foundations of exploring ways in which art can be produced; and the creativity to develop their own unique style. 

Curriculum Map

For a more detailed look at our Art and Design curriculum, to see how skills and vocabulary are developed throughout and how knowledge is introduced and revisited through the curriculum please see our full curriculum overview document below.