Melling Primary School
Art
Melling Art Gallery
The children at Melling always work hard on art projects and would love for you to see some of their excellent work.
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Year Six
Our artwork using felt tip pens was inspired by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
We did careful drawings inspired by our study of Stephen Wiltshire.
Year Five
We mixed paint colours carefully for our paintings inspired by studies of space.
We made tissue paper suncatchers.
Our paintings were inspired by Sunflowers by Van Gogh.
We used our paper folding and cutting skills to create cards.
Year Four
We used coloured pencils to draw Day of the Dead masks in our R.E. work.
We used careful observation and drawing skills to create Roald Dahl illustrations.
We painted using work by Pierre Auguste Renoir as our inspiration.
We practised our drawing skills by creating dragons' eyes.
Our project on dragons' eyes was completed with clay sculptures.
Year Three
We used our mark making skills to portray different emotions.
Year Three explored hot and cold colours using paints and pastels.
We did a study based on the work of Piet Mondrian.
The book Owl Babies inspired us to do our owl drawings.
Year Two
We practised our skills by drawing the other half of these pineapples.
We created Mandala patterns using coloured pencils.
We did colour mixing and painted silhouette pictures for the Great Fire of London.
Year One
We drew abstract portraits inspired by Pablo Picasso.
We have been exploring mark making in our drawing work.
Digital Art - We created Mosaic Autumn Trees on the chromebooks.
We used careful drawing skills to do our self-portraits.
We did paper collages on the theme of sunshine as part of our work on seasonal change.
We painted carefully to create some original work inspired by Wassily Kandinsky Squares with Concentric Circles.
We explored sculpture and made clay thumb pots.
We examined Autumn leaves and carefully drew the other half.
Digital Art - We used the chromebooks to paint these animal pictures.
It was interesting learning about Matisse and using his work as inspiration to practise our cutting skills.
We created abstract oil pastel faces based on a study of Pablo Picasso.
We did colour mixing with the paints to create rainbows.
We used Bonfire Night to inspire our firework pictures on the chromebook computers.
Reception
We created collage and painted poppies for Remembrance Day.
We made baskets by weaving paper when we read the Little Red Riding Hood story.
We drew funnybones skeletons for Halloween with chalk pastels and added art straws for bones.
Do you recognise us from our self-portraits?
We love painting in YR and we painted scarecrows for Autumn.
As part of our Harvest activities, we made seed collages.
We learnt about printing by doing vegetable prints.
Our study in paints was inspired by Van Gogh's Sunflowers.
‘Art, craft and design embody some of the highest forms of human creativity. A high-quality art and design education should engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design. As pupils progress, they should be able to think critically and develop a more rigorous understanding of art and design. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.’
National Curriculum 2014
Teaching and Learning in Art and Design
at Melling School
Melling Approach to Art and Design
INTENTION - Aims and Principles
- to produce creative work, exploring their ideas and recording their experiences
- to become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, craft and design techniques
- to evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design
- to know about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms.
IMPLEMENTATION - Quality First Approach
In Melling Art and Design lessons, pupils in key Stage One will be taught:
- to use a range of materials creatively to design and make products
- to use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination
- to develop a wide range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space
- about the work of a range of artists, craft makers and designers, describing the differences and similarities between different practices and disciplines, and making links to their own work
In Melling Art and Design lessons, pupils in key Stage Two will be taught:
- to develop their techniques, including their control and their use of materials, with creativity, experimentation and an increasing awareness of different kinds of art, craft and design
- to create sketch books to record their observations and use them to review and revisit ideas
- to improve their mastery of art and design techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials [for example, pencil, charcoal, paint, clay]
- about great artists, architects and designers in history
Inclusion
At Melling Primary, Art and Design forms part of a broad and balanced inclusive curriculum which provides all children with relevant and challenging learning. Through each topic or unit of work taught, suitable learning challenges are set in response to children’s diverse learning needs. The school will encourage children to value Art and Design along with the work of artists and each other, rewarding both effort and achievement equally. Children's work will be proudly displayed throughout the school, promoting a sense of pride and achievement at all levels.
Enhancement
In each year group, learning is enhanced through whole school Art Attack Art blocking days. These will be held termly, will have a whole school skills focus, for example drawing, and during these days, children will study a work/works of a famous artist. Links will be made to oracy learning as these blocking days will all finish with a whole school assembly when children will make presentations of the work they have been doing to the rest of the school.
Champions
Children who are particularly enthusiastic or talented about Art and Design are encouraged to become champions of the subject/ambassadors for Art and Design across the school. Children, whose efforts are particularly exceptional, will be recognised for this and seen as exemplars for this subject.
Impact
Knowledge and skills
Children will follow a structured programme of skills development (based on the skills as outlined in the National Curriculum) and learning will be built upon systematically. Prior skills and knowledge will be recapped regularly and new knowledge consolidated whenever possible.
Assessment in Art and Design
Feedback is regular and ongoing during lessons and activities and will be given to the children to help guide their progress. Children will be encouraged to make judgements about how they can improve their own work. Any teacher assessments will be judged against the progression of skills as outlined in the Focus Knowledge, Skills and Understanding breakdown for each class. Children will complete two drawings in each class and this will be built up as a profile of the development of their drawing skills throughout the primary phase. Sketchbooks will begin in Year One and will provide an additional source of information about individual children's progression of skills and understanding.
Monitoring
The monitoring and evaluating of children's knowledge, skills and understanding takes place on an ongoing basis through a variety of work scrutiny and discussions with children. Sketchbooks and drawing portfolios provide an additional source of information for the monitoring of common practice within Art and Design at Melling. A webpage portfolio is regularly maintained to provide examples of children's work at a variety of levels and across the whole school.
EXAMPLES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN ART AND DESIGN AT MELLING SCHOOL
Useful Websites
TATE GALLERY - A BRILLIANT ART WEBSITE FOR CHILDREN:
https://www.tate.org.uk/kids
ART FOR KIDS HUB:
https://www.artforkidshub.com
BBC BITESSIZE ART AND DESIGN:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects
THE ARTFUL PARENT:
https://artfulparent.com/kids-arts-crafts-activities-500-fun-artful-things-kids
How can you encourage Art at home?
Get messy!
Try to make a collection of drawing and painting resources and let your child get creative. Paints, chalk, crayons, pens, pencils, play dough and much more...throw down an old tablecloth or newspaper and get creative!
Use household objects creatively
You could also get creative using things around the house –for example, use pasta to create collages.
Keep a sketch book
Encourage your child to keep a sketch book. Let them take it with them when they go out so that they can look for things to sketch – a tree, a building, the seaside. You could also try taking a photo to take home to use later.
Celebrate homemade art
Praise your child’s creations and encourage them not to get disheartened if they feel they have made ‘mistakes’. Remember art is creative and the aim is to try out different things - there is no right or wrong way to do things. Don't forget to frame some work using coloured paper or card - you could even create a gallery wall.
Talk about art and enjoy art together
Visit art galleries or museums with your child. Discuss what you see and share your opinions – about subject matter, colours, materials, feelings etc.