Subject Vision Art

Our Vision for Art at St George's

‘Let all that you do be done in Love’ 1 Corinthians 16:14

The example of Jesus Christ and the Good news that he brings inspire St George’s school to be a place of hope and a caring and inclusive community in which we all love to learn and learn to love

‘Art is not just a subject to learn, but an activity that you can practise with your hands, your eyes, your whole personality.’ Quentin Blake

Art stimulates creativity, imagination and inventiveness. It enables children to communicate what they see, feel and think. Children experiment with their ideas, their use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials and processes. At St George’s we want our children to learn to be artists. Our aim is for pupils to develop a passion and commitment to the subject and be exposed to a variety of artists and cultures to broaden their knowledge and experiences. 

Click on the link below to see the full vision for Art:

St George's 6 Principles of Art

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Click on the image below for the full Skills Progression Document in Art & Design 

Please have a look at some of the beautiful artwork our children have produced.

Egyptian jewellery

Ancient Egyptian jewellery and the wonderful contemporary jewellery by the jewellery designer Wendy Ramshaw are  helping our budding jewellery designers in Year 3 to design and create their own.

Year 3 have been mixing modelling clay to simulate semi precious stones in order to start creating their Wendy Ranshaw/Egyptian jewellery prototypes. 

Ancient Islamic Art

Year 6 have looked at Ancient Islamic Art, thinking about how they be adapted into prints or tiles.

Year 6 have been gathering their ideas for their lino prints or clay tiles. Some of the class wanted to experiment with the gutta on carboard to create their own stamps.

William Morris

Year 5 sketch books on William Morris

Family group art

The whole school have been busy recreating their own 'family group' art based on the four elements. We have been inspired bu the tapestries at St. Albans Cathedral. Beautiful!

Mixed Media Abstract Earthquake Pictures

Year 4 have created mixed media abstract earthquake pictures.

Extreme Earth

Year 4's extreme earth pictures. Marvellous!

Year 1 UK based art

Year 1 have looked at the United Kingdom's countries and national flowers. They have created collages in the form of tissue paper and tourist leaflets, printing and oil pastel work. 

Year 2 Buses

All aboard the capital city sight seeing buses!

Year 1 and 2 geography linked artwork display

Keith Haring

Year 3's final printing and mini me's Keith Haring style.

Tudor Portraits

Year 5 have done research on the Tudors. They have worked on their sketching and colour mixing skills.

Year 5 face mapping. Fabulous!

Year 5 have developed their face mapping and water colour skills. Amazing!

Warfare Art

Year 6's research on their choice of WW2 artists.

Year 6 warfare art in the style of their chosen WW2 artist. Fabulous work!

Miro

Year 4 have made these fantastic pieces of art based on Miro.

Land of Neverbelieve

Year 6 created these wonderful hybrid creatures based on the book "Land of Neverbelieve." 

Beatles portraits

Year 4 had great fun creating colourful Beatles portraits using oil pastels.

Chris Piascik

Fabulous doodles by Year 5 inspired by the graphic illustrator Chris Piascik

Boats

Year 6 have looking at boats. They looked at photographs as well as some artwork, examining what features they liked about the pictures. Next, they experimented with drawing their own boats and with colours and textures to be used in their own piece of artwork.

As well as the boats that go on the water, they have also been looking at the water itself.

They started to experiment with different materials to create images, patterns and textures of water. It was amazing how many different colours, shades and textures they could see when they looked at other artist's work.

Year 6 then did seascape backgrounds for the boats they painted last half term.

Why were words so vital to the war?

Year 6 have made posters of Winston Chuchill. They used pen and ink to add line, tone and perspective using a tonal wash. They added pattern, movement, newspaper print outs to add detail, and interest to their work.

'O Little Town of Bethlehem'

Year 6 created Christmas decorations based on the song 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' for a Christmas tree competition. They used polymer clay and Shrinkle plastic.

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