Art and Design at St Nicholas

We aim to…

Provide opportunities for all children to be creative.
Inspire a love and curiosity of art that covers a range of genres, forms and cultures.
Provide opportunity for children to discover an interest and talent in art, build confidence and nurture well-being.
Broaden the children’s technical vocabulary in art.
Encourage children to engage with art.
Allow children to create and evaluate a range of artistic techniques.
Provide the opportunity for all children to have the skills required to be an artist.
Make the children proud of their work and encourage them to want to share it with others through our displays.

Giving children the opportunity to develop a range of artistic skills.
Ensuring that Art is included in cross-curricular lessons.
Nurturing a resilient learning attitude towards art.
High quality teaching that is appropriately pitched to individuals.
Having a curriculum that provides a range of mediums for children to explore.
In EYFS and KS1 children providing the opportunity to learn through Foraging Friday and other areas of the curriculum.
Ensuring learning is well pitched and matched to individual needs.
Ensuring Art and design have a high profile within the school community and children enjoy regular lessons that are highly valued.
Having displays in school that celebrate children’s achievements and progress

Children enjoy art lessons and are confident to ‘have a go’.
Children discover new interests and talents.
They confidently apply their artistic knowledge to other areas of learning.
Children understand how culture and history links to art and design.
They can talk confidently about their learning in art and design using appropriate and technical vocabulary.
Pupils develop a wider vocabulary and use descriptive language in response to art and design.
Children demonstrate a love or appreciation of art and talk with increasing confidence about a range of genres and artists.
Children show great enthusiasm when art and desing are included in other areas of the curriculum