Subject Vision Statement

At St Ignatius Catholic Primary School, we believe art is a powerful way for children to explore ideas, express themselves, appreciate beauty, and recognise the awe and wonder of God’s creation. Art nurtures imagination, develops confidence, and allows every child to communicate in a creative, visual language.

Our aim is to help children grow as creative, reflective and skilful artists who can explore, experiment and evaluate their work with increasing independence. Art should be joyful, meaningful and accessible to all.

Our Curriculum

At St Ignatius, we follow the Kapow Primary Art & Design scheme, which provides a rich, progressive and fully sequenced curriculum.

Kapow ensures that:

• Learning builds systematically over time

• Skills in drawing, painting, collage, printing, sculpture and digital art are revisited and developed

• Children study a diverse range of artists, designers and craftspeople

• Every child has the opportunity to create, reflect and improve

Kapow lessons are designed by specialists and include:

• High-quality demonstration videos

• Step-by-step modelling of techniques

• Clear progression of knowledge and skills

• Opportunities to explore art from different cultures and periods

• Practical tasks supported by visuals, scaffolds and vocabulary resources

• High-quality sketchbook used in KS2 for experimentation and reflection

How Kapow Supports Inclusion

Kapow’s curriculum enables all children—including those with SEND or EAL—to fully participate through:

• Visual instructions and teacher demonstration videos

• Differentiated outcomes rather than differentiated tasks

• Vocabulary images and sentence stems

• Opportunities to revisit, refine and build confidence

• Open-ended creative choices that allow every child to succeed

What Our Pupils Experience

Throughout their time at St Ignatius, children will:

• Experiment with a wide range of materials and techniques

• Learn to observe, discuss and interpret artwork

• Develop fine-motor skills such as cutting, joining and sketching

• Explore art from many cultures and time periods

• Create artwork linked to class topics and the wider community

• Learn to evaluate their own and others’ work with kindness and honesty

Art at St Ignatius celebrates creativity, individuality and the joy of making.