Art & Design
Mrs R Harrison is the subject lead for Art at Cottam.
ART AT COTTAM PRIMARY SCHOOL
At Cottam Primary School, we value the importance of Art. We have designed a curriculum for art with the intent that our children will, from the early years, develop a sense of creativity, self-expression, excellence and high attainment.
The aim of our art curriculum is to ensure that children’s own experiences will result in them being able to use the visual elements of art confidently, in their own work. It is our intent to provide all children with the fundamental skills, techniques and knowledge needed to independently to create their own unique drawings, paintings, sculptures, and crafts. We equip them with the skills required to learn about the language of art and design. This enables them to describe what they see in detail and to provide evidence for their observations.
We give the children the time and space to explore new themes, new sensations, and ways to be creative without the need to be perfect. At Cottam, we believe that the process takes precedence over the product. We want our children to see the enjoyment and satisfaction in the process of producing art. It is through the children’s personalised experience of art at Cottam, that we enable the children to feel safe, secure, and happy, to produce their most creative work.
Art policy
Curriculum Map
EYFS Art
Curriculum overview
WORLD ART DAY
Our whole school celebrated World Art Day by working together and getting creative.
Each class worked with a different year group and our theme was “Nature all around us.”
From bees and honeycombs to dragonflies and butterflies, we sketched and created our own master pieces!
Creating spiders’ webs from branches and wool and making 3D insects was fun for Year 2 and 4!
Year 1 and 3 used newspapers to make creature collages. The rest of their class studied the detail on bugs. Their bugs sit proudly on the painted backgrounds!
World Art Day gallery
Year 5 LS LOWRY
Year 4 Printing
GIANT TREE ART
The Reception classes had fun creating their own giant trees. This was linked to their topic work on the seasons. They selected their own materials and worked as a team to arrange them to making a seasonal tree.
Giant tree art-EYFS
PETER THORPE-space art.
Reception classes learnt all about the artist Peter Thorpe. They explored images of rockets and designed their own. They experimented with chalk pastels and used their designs to copy on black paper. We used circles to print planets around the rockets. They talked about the terms fill, colour, outline, pastels, shape and spaces.
Peter Thorpe art-EYFS
MONDRIAN-EYFS
The Reception classes learnt all about the artist Mondrian. They learnt the name of the 3 primary colours and cut up strips of paper to create their own style of his work. They worked hard to cut, glue and arrange their strips of black paper. Their challenge was then to decide which blocks to paint!
Mondrian pictures-EYFS
Kites-collage-EYFS
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY STUDY
In the summer term each class in school studied the work of the artist Andy Goldsworthy.
The gallery of photos show how his work and ideas inspired the children to explore environmental art ideas in natural forms. The children used the school grounds to find natural materials to form part of their designs and work.
The work included-
Land art challenges.
Balancing and stacking stones and slate.
Creating spiral designs.
Outlines and layers in nature.
Hanging sculptures.
Mark making in sand and mud.