Inspire our children to be creative and express themselves
To provide opportunities to promote positive mental health and wellbeing
Enable our children to develop art skills
Allow our children time to experiment, enjoy and succeed in creative activities
To build children’s confidence and allow them opportunities to be individual artists
Inspire our children to understand how the creative arts are incorporated into society and how the creative industries can be a valued career.
Enable our children to explore diverse and contemporary artists, with a particular focus on Bristol artists.
Implementation
Provide a varied art curriculum which is both experimental and project based
Cover the core disciplines of drawing, painting with colour theory, sculpture particularly through using clay and learning from diverse contextual sources
Pupils will also have opportunities to further develop their creativity and through Collage, Printing, Textiles, Sustainable Art and World Crafts, and their self-expression skills.
Enrichment opportunities include taking part in the local Arts Trail, whole-school Art and Clay Days, off-site exhibitions, getting involved in Community Art events, and visits from Bristol artists.
This approach offers the children a broad, aspirational range of creative experiences, enabling them to find their own artistic interests and strengths.
Design Technology
Intent
Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world.
Inspire and enthuse our children to appreciate and explore products
Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others
Enable our children to develop subject specific design technology vocabulary
Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook.
Implementation
Provide all children with opportunities to creatively and practically design, make and evaluate products for a range of purposes.
Children will learn technical knowledge and develop the skills of design, make and evaluate.
Where possible, DT units are integrated into our most befitting whole school topics offering our children a real life, meaningful context to apply their learning and skills.
Children are expected to use and apply subject specific vocabulary. Each project will build upon skills and vocabulary learnt previously
Each year group will cover three units of DT throughout the year, covering a range of textiles, food and nutrition, construction and electrical.
Children will develop their confidence and resilience to experiment with designs and reflect on the strength and weaknesses to improve their design.
A whole school progression for skills and vocabulary ensures children have opportunities to build upon previous learning and develop new skills.
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Sorry there is no parking at school on Windmill Close. Please park safely on local roads; Whitehouse Street and other near by roads are for permit holders only.
Parking around Victoria Park is best; it is only a quick walk through the park to the front of school.
