Coopers Edge School

To increase pupils’ prospects by:

1. Enabling them to effectively think like an artist, craft maker, architect and designer
2. Enabling them to gain age appropriate knowledge and understanding of Art and design by implementing a curriculum designed to allow children time to practice and revisit skills within each unit, across each Key Stage and through their entire learning journey at CES.
3. Developing pupils’ BIG CONCEPTS (based on National Curriculum in England)

• Participatory citizenship

• know how art and design both contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
• Know how art is bought and sold, how people make money from art as an artist, collector or gallery owner. How much is it worth? What is ‘value’?
• Understand the principle of commission.

• Aspiration and individual growth

• engage, inspire and challenge pupils, equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own works of art, craft and design.
• think critically and develop a rigorous understanding.
• learn about great artists, architects and designers in history. Van Gogh, Picasso, Hirst, Goldsworthy, Constable.
• Potential future careers in art, design, architecture, craft.

• Communication

• evaluate and analyse creative works using the language of art, craft and design – style, genre, mural, landscape, texture, abstract etc.
• learn about modern artists and designers who have exploited technology in their work like David Hockney.

• Equality of all

• know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation. Banksy, Kahlo, Hopper, Wahol
• learn about great artists, craft makers and designers, and understand the historical and cultural development of their art forms eg. William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement
• Name local, national, global… Stafford, Golden, Coomber – Hirst, Banksy, Gormley  -Rembrant, Klimt, Bruegel

• Responsibility of the environment, well-being and a sustainable future

• learn about artisan crafts using natural materials eg ceramics, millinery, leather work, felting.
• learn about artists who create transient art in the environment eg Andy Goldsworthy
• analyse how art can be used to highlight issues related to the environment, well-being and a sustainable future eg Banksy
• experience how art can impact well-being.
• reflect on architecture and design for a sustainable future eg Buckminster Fuller and Eden Project