Art
Aims and objectives
- To provide children with visual, tactile and sensory experiences and opportunities to stimulate their creativity and imagination;
- To develop children’s understanding of colour, form, texture and pattern
- To develop children’s confidence and ability in the use of materials and processes to express ideas, feelings and meanings;
- To enable children to learn about the different roles of artists, craftspeople and designers, and to explore ideas and meanings in their work.
- To increase children’s enjoyment and awareness of the functions of art, craft and design in their own lives and in different times and cultures;
- To help children to make thoughtful judgements and aesthetic and practical decisions and become actively involved in shaping environments.
Art and Design includes skill development such as:
- Thinking Skills, focussing children on knowing how as well as knowing what – on learning how to learn. Many aspects of art and design contribute to the development of thinking skills
- Information processing skills to enable children to locate and collect relevant information, to sort, classify, sequence, compare and contrast, and to analyse part-whole relationships.
- Reasoning skills to help children express reasons for opinions and actions, to draw inferences and make deductions, to use precise language to explain what they think, and to make judgements and decisions
- Enquiry skills stilmulating children to ask relevant questions; pose and define problems, to plan what to do and ways to research, to predict outcomes and anticipate consequences, and to test conclusions and improve ideas.
- Creative-thinking skills which help children to generate and extend ideas, to suggest hypotheses, to apply imagination, and to look for innovative outcomes.
- Evaluation skills to enable children to evaluate information, to judge the value of what they read, hear and do, to develop criteria for judging the value of their own and others' work or ideas, and to have confidence in their judgements.
