Art & Design is taught in a purpose-built and well-resourced building with separate rooms for Pottery, Art and Textiles. Our KS2 & 3 teaching and learning links to the national curriculum. At these stages, our focus is on engagement and enjoyment and these are the markers for progress in lower school. We have a flexible approach to learning to encourage creativity and to allow our children and young people space for opportunity, exploration, experience and discovery. The skills accrued by students at KS2 & 3 will equip them for more specialised study at KS4, through level 1 and level 2 courses.
Curriculum Overview
We made ‘Identity Boxes’ about ourselves after studying the artist Joseph Cornell.
Joseph Cornell made what he called ‘Shadow Boxes’ about imagined journeys, although he only once left his home in New York. Our boxes are about us and things we love, and we made them as part of our Arts Award Explore qualification.’
