Art & Design

During key stage 3, pupils learn to develop their creativity and imagination through activities that help them to extend their knowledge and experience of materials, processes and practices and to build on and improve their critical and practical skills. They study art, craft and design in the contemporary world and from different times and cultures and learn to become more independent in using visual language to communicate their own ideas, meanings and feelings.

Children are taught to:

• explore and develop ideas drawn from a number of sources:
• their imagination
• their experience
• their own observations
• material they have collected in their sketchbook
• develop ideas to suit different audiences and purposes
• draw on a range of materials, tools, techniques and processes, adapting and mixing them to achieve particular effects
• review their own and others' work
• use critical feedback to develop their work further
• look at art, craft and design in different times, in Western Europe and the wider world
• think about the ways in which audiences and art works change each other

At the end of Key Stage 3 (age 14), most children are able to:

• gather information to help them develop ideas for different audiences and purposes
• mix materials, tools and techniques, using their different properties to express ideas
• adapt and improve their own work
• analyse art works critically