Art and Design Documents
“You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” - Maya Angelou
In our Art and Design curriculum at Lugwardine, we value each child’s wonderful imagination and their own individuality. We aim to give all children the opportunity to express themselves and be creative through inspiring and stimulating lessons and activities. We ensure that the children are able to explore, observe, invent and develop their creative thinking. In order to do this, we give the children access to a wide range of materials, media, processes and techniques to help them develop these skills.
Children will learn how to follow their curiosity and to try new approaches and to broaden their range of expression. We support and teach the children to be able to reflect on, evaluate and analyse their own work and that of others.
We also ensure that the children’s work is highly valued, that the children are given praise and that their work is displayed throughout the school for other members of our school community to enjoy. We broaden the children’s knowledge and appreciation of the work of artists by immersing them in art work by lots of different people, from different cultures and periods, with many different styles and inspirations. We ensure that children are given time to do this, as well as time to experiment with different artists techniques themselves. We extend and enrich our Art and Design curriculum by integrating it with other subjects.