At Kingsthorne we encourage the children to experience art through producing creative work, using a range of techniques and learning about great artists, craft makers and designers.

Early Years.
By the end of Foundation the children will be expected to:

• Experiment with colour, form and function.
• Represent their own ideas through art, music, dance, role play and stories.

Key Stage 1.
In Key Stage 1 the children will:

• Use a range of materials creatively to design and make products.
• Use drawing, painting and sculpture to develop and share their ideas, experiences and imagination.
• Develop a range of art and design techniques in using colour, pattern, texture, line, shape, form and space.
• Learn about artists, such as Monet, Van Gogh, Albert Durer and Mondrian.
• Children in Key Stage 1 will begin to use sketchbooks to record their obervations.

• Continue to create sketch books to record their observations.
• Improve their mastery of art and design techniques including drawings, painting and sculpture with a range of materials.
• Learn about and be able to compare artists, architects and designers in history, such as Kandinsky, Andy Warhol, Georges Seurat and William Morris.
• Where possible we link Art to our curriculum topics e.g. studying William Morris in Year 5 linked to the history Victorian topic or creating pointillism.