Art and Design & Technology
Beaufort school strives to inspire pupils by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
At Beaufort Primary School we use Kapow to ensure our Art and DT curriculum is:
- designed to focus on the main Art and DT concepts that pupils need to learn and remember. It is also true to the national curriculum for both Key Stages 1 and 2 and the EYFS Framework.
- ensures full coverage of the National Curriculum is met.
- has a high focus on knowledge, skills and creativity, as well as developing artistic and design technology language (see vocabulary progression documents below).
- is designed to enhance long term memory through revisited concepts.
- is underpinned by our British values, equalities, school ethos and the need to build cultural capital for all our pupils.
Key principles underpinning our curriculum:
- Children knowing and remembering key knowledge and skills.
- Making explicit links and connections between subjects and real-life experiences.
- Having a resource rich environment.
- Children having an enthusiastic attitude towards Art and DT lessons and begin to ask and answer questions about the world around them.
Key Art and DT vocabulary is identified on every year group’s unit knowledge organisers (coming soon) and is referred to regularly within lessons.
We have used Kapow’s ART and DT combined mixed age planning document to create our own Beaufort LTPs for both subjects, this allowing us to enhance our topics through meaning links as well as making sure skills across both subjects are progressive. (see Kapow Art and DT LTP below and Beaufort’s year group LTPs on curriculum homepage). Both Art and DT skills flow between units as the curriculum has been designed to be holistic. For example, drawing skills appear in many units; children may apply what they have learned about mixed media to a task in a Sculpture or 3D art unit etc.
Art and DT Progression of Knowledge and Skills Document EYFS-Year 6 Art Vocabulary Progression DT Vocabulary Progression Kapow Art and DT Combined LTP
Intent, Implementation, Impact Statements
For further information, please see below our Art and D&T Subject Leader 3 I's Statement:
