"Art is not what you see, but what you make others see."
‒ Degas
The aim of the John Clifford Primary art curriculum is to offer children opportunities which stimulate their creativity and imagination by providing a range of experiences.
The children will be equipped with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. They will develop a wide range of art and design techniques using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
The art curriculum closely links with Design & Technology. However, our curriculum also allows lots of opportunities to link computing learning with other subjects including Science, History and Geography.
Why do we teach Art & Design at John Clifford?
At John Clifford, we intend to provide children with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
We believe that a high quality art, craft and design education provides and inspires personal expression, cultural understanding, creative and practical responses. This promotes imaginative risk taking to provide solutions to our material, emotional, social and virtual worlds.
Our art curriculum supports children to understand that we can express our thoughts and ideas in a variety of ways. Children will become visually perceptive and visually literate through looking, thinking, recognising, interpreting and understanding art as a medium of communication.
