Find out What S Happening at the Jerwood by Visiting Their Website

Many exhibitions at the De La Warr are free. Visit the website to find out what’s on http://www.dlwp.com/

EVENTS AND VISITS We have both the Jerwood Gallery (which Y4 visited recently – see picture below right) and the De La Warr Pavilion on our doorstep. AIMS AND PURPOSE Art, craft and design embody some of Find out what’s happening at the As part of our Art Week at the the highest forms of human creativity. Jerwood by visiting their website beginning of the Spring term, every At Guestling we aim to equip children http://www.jerwoodgallery.org/ class wrote a postcard to enter into the with the knowledge and skills to Where's Wally Art competition based experiment, invent and create their own around a famous painting by the class works of art, craft and design. artist. Year 2 imagined what Wally might see, hear and feel if he were The national curriculum for art and hiding inside a Lowry painting, and in design aims to ensure that all pupils: Year 6 Wally found himself trapped in  Produce creative work, exploring the straight line maze or prison of a their ideas and recording their Mondrian design. experiences  Become proficient in drawing, painting, sculpture and other art, Children safely use and explore a practices and disciplines, and making craft and design techniques variety of materials, tools and links to their own work.  Evaluate and analyse creative works techniques, experimenting with colour, using the language of art, craft and design, form and function. design Being Imaginative: Every child in Key Stage 1 and 2 has a  Know about great artists, craft Children use what they have learnt sketchbook, which they take through to makers and designers, and about media and materials in original the next class. Our expectations of understand the historical and ways, thinking about uses and purposes. pupils are high; we expect them to take cultural development of their art They represent their own ideas, pride in their work and always strive to forms. thoughts and feelings through design do their best. and technology and art.

KEY STAGE 1 – YEARS 1 & 2 Pupils are taught: KEY STAGE 2 – YEARS 3, 4, 5 & 6  To use a range of materials Pupils are encouraged to develop their creatively to design and make techniques, including their control and products their use of materials, with creativity,  To use drawing, painting and experimentation and an increasing sculpture to develop and share their awareness of different kinds of art, ideas, experiences and imagination craft and design.  To develop a wide range of art and Pupils are taught: design techniques in using colour,  To record their observations in pattern, texture, line, shape, form their sketch books and use them to and space review and revisit ideas FOUNDATION STAGE  About the work of a range of  To improve their mastery of art and Expressive Arts and Design is part of artists, craft makers and designers, design techniques, including drawing, the curriculum in Reception. describing the differences and painting and sculpture with a range Exploring media and marks: similarities between different of materials  About great artists, architects and designers in history.

How many of these paintings do you recognise?