Art and Design

At Tenacres, we aim to create opportunities for children to explore their creativity and imagination in engaging and inspiring lessons. To create meaningful learning opportunities, we embed Art and Design within our topics.

As a school, we aim to provide children with a chance to develop a wide range of skills such as sketching, painting and printing before creating an end piece. The progression of skills should be clear within the children’s sketch books and the skills should be evident in the finished product. We strive for each child to have opportunity to deepen their skills by allowing enough time to learn a skill before applying it. As the children move through school they begin to build up a range of skills and techniques that they are familiar with and able to use.

Children have many opportunities to explore a range of media and develop control of a variety of tools and techniques. We also introduce our children to the work of artists, craft makers and designers from a variety of cultures both past and present.

We encourage our children to evaluate and reflect both with their own work and the work of others. We believe that as well as helping them to appreciate the development of art, it will also encourage children to show respect for the work of others.