Artists
Our Intent:
At Sea Mills Primary School we aim to inspire children to be creative. Through a variety of opportunities to explore different types of media, children are able to challenge themselves to reach their own potential within this subject. We encourage them to consider themselves as ‘Artists’ and create their own works of art, craft and design.
Our Art framework embrace the aims and beliefs that are based upon the national curriculum.
We aim to ensure that all pupils can:
- Produce creative work that is subjective to them.
- Become proficient artists by the end of each key stage through opportunities to draw, paint and use sculpture.
- Evaluate and gain knowledge about great artists, craft makers and designers.
Our Approach:
At Sea Mills Primary, every child experiences being an Artist. These opportunities are embedded into termly learning opportunities led through different enquiry units. Each child records different skills in their own personal sketchbooks. The work within these are a reflection of each child’s own designs and show progression throughout their learning journey. They also make and design work that is shared in their classrooms and visible throughout the school in engaging displays of learning.
In Early Years and Key Stage 1 pupils are encouraged to become artists by:
Trying and using a range of materials to explore, design and create.
Drawing, painting and exploring different shades and tones.
Exploring a range of artists and begin to formulate opinions about their work.
In Key Stage 2, Pupils are encouraged to become artists by:
Consolidating and revisiting the use of different media.
Improving their mastery of art and design techniques that include drawing, painting and sculpture.
Proving and consolidating knowledge about great artists and designers and consider their history.
Artists Year Overview
Progression Map
How to help your child at home to become Artists
As Artists, we encourage all of the children at Sea Mills Primary School to explore their creativity and by doing this, ensure that their art work is subjective to them. Why not explore the following links at home with your child to help them do this:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects
https://www.studentartguide.com/resources/free-art-teacher-resources
Please follow the link below and the PDF document to find lots of Art activities for your children to engage with at home. These have been created by the RWA in Bristol. We are always here to support you become fantastic Artists and hope you enjoy being creative!
Take a look at our Sea Mills Primary Artists….
Gallery
These are our Artist displays, proudly displayed around our school this year. I will continue to add to our Gallery as the academic year progresses.
Year 5 Artists
We had a theme of autumn, getting us ready for harvest next week. We collected leaves and used our observational skills to draw and then paint them using watercolour paints. We were very proud of our artwork!
Year 4 ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch
Year 4 studied ‘The Scream’ by Edvard Munch and we developed our understanding of oil pastels. This culminated in producing final outcomes where we made our own colour choices for our own versions of ‘The Scream’
Year 4 Edvard Munch
As part of year 4’s enquiry ‘What is creativity?’ we have been making artist notes about Edvard Munch. This involved researching facts about his life, creating colour swatches, identifying how we feel about his work and creating artist copies.
Year 3 Roy Lichtenstein
Year 3 have been looking at the Artist Roy Lichtenstein. We had a go at creating some food art in his style. The children really enjoyed using dots to make the food pop!
Download: Children’s art work – Roy Lichtenstein
Year 5 Vincent Van Gogh
Year 5 have enjoyed learning all about Vincent Van Gogh as part of our enquiry ‘What does the earth look like from space?’. We studied his famous art works, learnt about his life and then used view finders to study his techniques before creating an artist study of the painting Starry Night.
In Year 5 we have been busy being illustrators. We enjoyed illustrating the main character from our whole school book ‘In Our Hands’ and used watercolours, with a focus on tone and shade, to bring our final illustrations to life.
In year 3, we have been illustrators!
We looked at the book In Our Hands by Lucy Farfort and discussed the layout and themes behind her images. We looked at this image and then planned an alternative ending using illustrations and some words to tell the story. We are all very proud of what we achieved! What do you think?
Year 3 Artists:
Today, too part in a draw along with Lucy Farfort – the author of In Our Hands. The children recreated the image of the main character. Their artwork was amazing and they should be very proud!
Year 6 dragon eyes
Year 3 have been learning about the colour wheel. We used watercolours and mixed them in a variety of ways to find secondary and tertiary colours. When then thought about how these could be sorted into warm and cool colours.
Year 3 have been working on collage techniques and observational drawings. They have been exploring tone.
Art and Music week 2023
Nursery Art and Music Week
Reception Art and Music Week
Dragon Dance
Year 1 Art and Music Week
Year 2 Art and Music Week
Year 3 Art and Music Week
Year 4 Art and Music Week
Year 5 Art and Music Week
Year 6 Art and Music Week
