Implementation
Callerton Academy uses a variety of teaching and learning styles in art and design lessons. We ensure that the act of exploring and making includes creating and developing ideas, evaluating and improving work. We do this through a mixture of direct teaching and individual/ group activities. Teachers draw attention to good examples of individual performance as models for the other pupils. They encourage pupils to evaluate their own ideas and methods, and the work of others, to say what they think and feel about them. We give pupils the opportunity within lessons to work on their own and collaborate with others, on projects in two and three dimensions and on different scales. Pupils also have the opportunity to use a wide range of materials and resources including other artists’ work, ceramics and information technology.
We recognise that we have pupils of differing ability in all our classes, and so we provide suitable learning opportunities for all children by matching the challenge of the task to the ability of the child. We achieve this through a range of strategies, which are differentiated by task, expected outcome and/or support from peers or adults.
Impact
By the end of Key Stage 3, we aim to produce a cohort of pupils who naturally demonstrate strong resilience and perseverance and are engaged in their creative work. In addition, pupils demonstrate that they can work independently, are able to organise their time, materials and equipment and can demonstrate their use of visual language with growing confidence.
Evidence of all of this is in students’ books. All high quality artwork produced is used as display in key areas around the school. This enriches the creative ethos of the school and has a high impact visually whilst elevating the status of pupils whose work is on show.
In Key Stage 3, pupils keep a record of their progress in art by completing their KPI record sheets. Pupils are also encouraged to bring in artwork that they have completed independently at home