Art and DT

“Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.”

Sydney Gurewitz Clemens

Create imaginative and expressive work by exploring their ideas and recording personal experiences, often collaborating with others to develop and refine their designs.
Develop confidence and skill in a range of artistic techniques, including drawing, painting, sculpture, and other forms of art, craft, and design.
Become reflective and thoughtful learners by evaluating and discussing creative work using the vocabulary of art, craft, and design.
Gain knowledge of significant artists, craft makers, and designers, while developing an understanding of the historical and cultural influences behind their work.

Design Technology aims to ensure that all pupils:

Develop the creative, technical and practical expertise needed to perform everyday tasks confidently and to participate successfully in an increasingly technological world
Build and apply a repertoire of knowledge, understanding and skills in order to design and make high-quality prototypes and products for a wide range of users
Critique, evaluate and test their ideas and products and the work of others being both a kind and critical friend in supporting others to improve.
Understand and apply the principles of nutrition and learn how to cook

Swallowfield Lower