Art is a powerful tool for learning. The art and design curriculum at Bryony strives to stimulate children’s natural impulses to be creative and to promote imagination and observational skills. All aspects of the Art National Curriculum are fully explored and the results achieved are of an extremely high standard. We have a dedicated art room at each site and are well resourced to allow the children to use their imagination and enhance their work.
At Bryony each child has a sketch book where the children develop their ideas and skills. From these ideas a final piece of work is produced. Children enjoy using colour, texture, pattern, different materials and media to communicate what they see, feel and think.
We combine the art curriculum at Bryony where practicable, with topics in other subjects. For example in year 4 the children use sketch pencils to shade and draw a picture of the Iron Man from their guided reading book by Ted Hughes, in Year 5 children create colour mixtures for painting a parrot linked to the topic of South America and in Year 6 the children sketch and use collage and colour mixing techniques to create a picture of a soldier linked to their learning of World War II. This cross-curricular learning helps pupils appreciate purpose in their work and assists teachers in giving a more complete view of each topic. It also provides the opportunity to study cultures, artists, crafts people and designers.
Some of the art curriculum is planned according to special events and activities which occur during the year including: Harvest Festival, Guy Fawkes, Christmas and the competition to design the programme for the Bryony annual Christmas Carol Service.