Art & Design Curriculum
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
At SSPP, we strive to provide our children with a rich and diverse offer of the arts. Through our curriculum we aim to provide students with exciting opportunities. Whether that be immersing themselves in the incredible street art murals of New Brighton or by crossing the river Mersey to Liverpool, a city that has more museums and galleries than any other UK city outside of London.
We encourage creativity from the very beginning of children’s schooling experience. Through Expressive Arts and Design in EYFS, we offer children a wide range of media, resources, artist, illustration studies and tools to be explored throughout their early years.
Through our art curriculum the children at Ss. Peter and Paul will study a rich diverse offer of artists and architect studies from Sarah Green to Antoni Gaudí. We are determined to enrich our children with inspiration and knowledge of local artists such as the painter Ian Fennelly, and sculpture Richard Mossman.
It is our aim to ensure that our students combine practical skills with creative thinking, developing highly valuable and transferable skills for future careers and life. They should also know how art and design both reflect and shape our history, and contribute to the culture, creativity and wealth of our nation.
At SSPP we cover and implement the Art & Design National Curriculum with a hugh splash of passion! Through story and dilema led learning, we implement our knowledge and humanity rich Art & Design Curriculum.
Artist Study
Throughout SSPP’s Art & Design curriculum, children will study various artists looking at a range of mediums, backgrounds and cultures. From the Art Nouveau Sunlight Soap adverts, to Sophie Green’s fine art conservation work, Catherine Mapp’s symbolic textiles, to William Morris’s stained glass windows, children will experience a depth of rich artist knwoledge.
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About a place, by a place, for a place…
Taking inspiration from the Royal Society of the Art’s 'area-based curriculum', we have a big empahsis on local artists. We want to inspire our children with a sense of identiy that is reflected in national and international artists from our local community.
Richard Mossman
Ian Fennelly
New Brighton Street Art.
EYFS
Throughout Early Years, children experience Art and & Design through the specific area of Expressive Art and Design.
The development of children’s artistic and cultural awareness supports their imagination and creativity. It is important that children have regular opportunities to engage with the arts, enabling them to explore and play with a wide range of media and materials. The quality and variety of what children see, hear and participate in is crucial for developing their understanding, self-expression, vocabulary and ability to communicate through the arts. The frequency, repetition and depth of their experiences are fundamental to their progress in interpreting and appreciating what they hear, respond to and observe.
From recognising, creating and describing patterns, to choosing particular colours to use for a purpose and exploring to see what happens when they mix colours, children will be immersed in the world of art and design through high quality texts, continous play and directed teaching.
We have worked with a number people over the years to curate our unique and ambitious Art & Design Curriculum. This is by no means finished, as no curriculum should ever be, but a fascinating and creative journey, with many more plot twists, partners and inspirational colaborations to come over the years.
Thanks to all the staff at SSPP for their input into curating our curriculum, with a special thanks to Julie Mitchell, Balance, HFCMAT, SI Liverpool and Victoria Road
Behind the currciulum…