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Art & Design and the National Curriculum Aims
Art and design has a distinctive contribution to make to the aims of the national curriculum. The art and design programme of study provides opportunities to plan sequences of work, teaching approaches and learning outcomes that develop:
- Successful learners
- Art and design offers pupils the opportunity to develop their creativity by using a range of skills in a wide variety of contexts. Pupils are able to communicate and to express their ideas and feelings through visual and other forms. Through exploring and sharing these ideas, pupils develop confidence and independence in learning. This is essential to becoming a successful learner who enjoys learning, makes progress and achieves.
- Through exploring and developing ideas and assessing work critically, pupils reflect on and analyse not only the world around them, but also their own work and the work of others. Pupils’ experience of new technologies helps them to develop the skills to investigate alternative ways of working. Pupils learn to value the learning process as a key part of the creative experience.
- Confident individuals
- Through working in art, craft and design pupils become open to the excitement and inspiration offered by both the natural and made worlds. By engaging in purposeful, imaginative and creative activities pupils learn to take managed risks, trying out new ideas and new ways of working without fear of failure. Through a range of processes, including drawing perceptively and creatively, pupils observe and investigate the world around them, inventing and visualising with increasing independence and ambition. Through allowing their work to be driven by imagination, experience and issues in the real world they learn to explore and interpret ideas and emotions, and develop understanding of others. By developing and using sets of values to evaluate their own and others’ work, pupils are able to increase confidence in their own opinions, in their feelings of self-worth and in their ability to relate to others.
- Responsible citizens
- Investigations in art, craft and design help pupils to appreciate the diversity of ideas and approaches to conveying meaning. They learn to understand, respect, value and engage with their own and other cultures and traditions. They learn that through their creative contributions it is possible to change things for the better. Working in the areas of art, craft and design, and in applied practices, promotes an enterprising culture and develops pupils’ ability to work collaboratively with others by taking different roles in teams. Pupils’ understanding and appreciation of fine art, design and craft will enrich their lives now and in the future.
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