Art

At The Gatwick School, we use an engaging and forward-thinking Art and Design curriculum that aims to inspire, involve, and challenge all students.

This curriculum offers our children numerous opportunities to create, investigate, and build a solid foundation of artistic vocabulary, knowledge, and skills. 

In a supportive environment where there are no 'right' or 'wrong' outcomes, students are encouraged to take risks, explore new ideas and techniques, and share their imagination and experiences, making art accessible to everyone.

To best meet the needs of children in Art and DT, we follow a structure of plan, design, make and evaluate.

Our Art & DT learning process begins with finding out what children already know, and using knowledge and skills end points during planning to consider what understanding the children are approaching the topic with. 

The knowledge and skills end points from the Aurora Academies Trust will be used by teachers to plan practical, skills-based learning.

Children learn about local artists and all children get the chance to use specialist equipment in the secondary phase, from building Anderson shelters in the DT room to cooking a delicious apple crumble in food tech.

Keegan “I liked making the BFG sculptures but they were hard to make. I worked with Vida, ours looks cool.”

Rhys “I liked put the paint on the t-shirt, I like mine”

Attila “I enjoyed sketching out fire and then using different sized paint brushes to paint it. I like The Great Fire of London!”

From Anna ‘I liked the lesson, I liked how we used bright colours and the use of wax crayons. I really liked the designs. It would be wonderful if we could make it again!’

Avni “I liked the food tasting in DT as we got to try stuff that I haven’t had before.”

Alessandro “My favourite part was the wheels and axels.”

Tudor “The saws were a little tricky, luckily my partner helped me.”

Rebekah “I enjoyed making a felt phone case and it was a lot of fun!