The Frides Way
At St Frideswide we believe that every child is entitled to develop their critical and creative thinking skills and to build their knowledge and understanding of materials and techniques.
Through enabling children to think about the purpose of art and artists to all our lives we will ensure that they feel entitled to express and better understand themselves while building skills and knowledge through a combination of opportunities for repeated practice and new projects.
We adopt a split curriculum with art being discretely taught in three curriculum blocks each year and being revisited in continuous provision and interleaved across subjects throughout. During non-art half terms pupils will continue their drawing journey to ensure the continuation of their skills development.
By the time children leave St Frideswide our aim is that they have:
- The ability to use visual language skillfully and convincingly (for example, line, shape, pattern, colour, texture, form) to express emotions, interpret observations, convey insights and accentuate their individuality.
- The ability to communicate fluently in visual and tactile form.
- The ability to draw confidently and adventurously from observation, memory and imagination.
- The ability to explore and invent marks, develop and deconstruct ideas and communicate perceptively and powerfully through purposeful drawing in 2D, 3D or digital media.
- A knowledge and understanding of other artists, craftmakers and designers.
- The ability to select and use materials, processes and techniques skillfully and inventively to realise intentions.
- The ability to reflect on, analyse and critically evaluate their own work and that of others.
