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
YEAR 1 SCULPTURE
Year 1 linked their English unit of work to their Art. They had great fun making robots out of clay. The attention to detail was fantastic!
Clay robots by Year 1
YEAR 3 COLLAGE
Year 3 linked their History topic on The Egyptians to their art work. They explored different techniques to create their Egyptian faces.
Egyptian faces by YEAR 3
DRAW ALONG
The whole school enjoyed a "draw along" session this morning by Access Art. The artist Rowan Briggs Smith showed us different mark making ideas. We all explored making marks using drawing pencils, pens and graphite sticks. She inspired us with a piece of art by Van Gogh, which led to us trying out lots of ways to fill our paper-dots, swirls, cross hatch, stipple, vertical lines. She told us how to hold our drawing tools in different ways to achieve different effects. We all had great fun-which was the most important thing of all!
EYFS DRAW ALONG
Ruth Daniels
Reception classes shared the story Walking Through The Jungle and then looked at the work of the artist Ruth Daniels. They found out how Ruth likes to create and paint tropical, bright pictures with lots of flowers, plants and vibrant colours. The children worked together, on a large scale to produce their own interpretation of a "tropical scene." They used fabrics, cut out their own shapes and thought carefully about the position of each piece. The children then drew, painted and added pastels to their own version of a "Tropical Moment." We love all the bright colours!
Ruth Daniels inspired art work by Reception classes.
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
Drawing flowers-
Reception classes explored a range of drawing pencils and sketched flowers. They tested out 2B and 6B pencils and used them to draw the outline and detail of real flowers. The children looked carefully at the stems and petals before using the watercolour pencils to fill in detail and create different tones.
Flowers by Reception classes
Henri Rousseau Year 5
Richard Long Year 6
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.