Art and Design

Why is Art and Design important at South Petherwin?

At South Petherwin Primary School, we value Art and Design as an important entitlement to a broad and balanced curriculum. Art and design provides the children with the opportunities to develop and extend skills and an opportunity to express their own interests, thoughts and ideas. From Year 1 onwards, we have termly units in which the children are introduced to the work of a particular artist, study a specific painting or other work and identify techniques which have proved successful. Each child will have their own sketchbook to design, practise and develop their skills and artworks. This will evidence a progression of techniques throughout the school years. The final objective is never to attempt to produce an exact copy of the work we are looking at but we do practise details and effects from the original which the children can then begin to use in their own creative work. In this way, they can experiment with and improve their mastery of a wide range of media until they are themselves confident and independent artists while at the same time, learning about art history and making rich and powerful links to other areas of the curriculum.

At South Petherwin Primary School, we hope to foster and continually grow a love of Art and Design as the children progress through our school, giving all of our children the opportunities and skills needed to develop their understanding and techniques.

At South Petherwin Primary School, children have the opportunity to take part in a range of artistic activities.
We believe that it is really important to develop children’s creativity, imagination and improve their self-esteem. We do this through exploring famous artists, architects and designers, and developing skills in painting, drawing and sculpture.We support and use local artists to enthuse and inspire our children.We aim to give all children the confidence to express themselves through a range of mediums by having opportunities to experiment with different material and to practice art and design techniques.