“Every child is an artist"

- Pablo Picasso

Intent

• To provide an exciting, well designed, coherent, balanced yet rich, forward thinking visual arts curriculum.

• To enable all learners to find an area of visual arts that is relevant and engaging to them, whether it is drawing, making, designing, talking about art.

• Learners will explore a range of disciplines, techniques, materials and approaches.

• Learners will progress with skills which are woven throughout the curriculum.

• Learners will understand how art is relevant to all our lives.

• Learning will be memorable and impactful through rich and relevant experiences.

• Learners will know that art and artists are important and valued by our school community and society.

• By the end of primary school, learners will be able to express with confidence and self-knowledge what being creative means to them.

• Learners will be able to express themselves through the connection of head, heart and hands.

"Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils"

National Curriculum, 2014