Curriculum Leader: Miss E Gray - graye@alkerdenacademy.co.uk

“Developing artists who have the confidence to be expressive, the vision to create, and the power to reflect.”

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At Alkerden Academy, we understand that art is central to developing learners’ creativity, imagination, and ability to communicate ideas visually and conceptually. Our intent is to provide a rich and diverse curriculum that encourages exploration of media, materials, processes, and techniques, while fostering personal expression and critical thinking. 

We aim to: 

• Build confidence in using formal elements of art: line, shape, form, tone, texture, colour, pattern and composition. 
• Develop creativity and imagination through practical making, exploration and personal response. 
• Cultivate global awareness by engaging with a diverse range of artists, designers and craftspeople from different time periods, cultures and perspectives. 
• Enable learners to communicate their ideas visually, verbally, and in written form, becoming reflective and self-aware artists. 

Learners have 2 art lessons a fortnight, following a carefully planned journey that builds technical skill, creative confidence, and critical awareness. 

Implementation is enriched by: 

• Independent sketchbook work, including home learning and artist research. 
• Practical experimentation with a wide variety of 2D and 3D media. 
• Collaborative making opportunities to develop teamwork and communication. 
• Adaptations to ensure learners with additional needs are supported to thrive creatively. 

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The impact of Art at Alkerden Academy will be seen in the creativity, confidence and independence of our learners as artists and thinkers. By the time they leave, learners will: 

• Have developed technical skill across a broad range of media, with the ability to apply the formal elements independently. 
• Have experienced and responded to the work of a diverse range of artists, craftspeople and designers. 
• Be able to reflect on and refine their own work and articulate their ideas both visually and verbally. 
• Develop transferable skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, resilience and time management.

Art at Alkerden reflects our Alkerden Heart - nurturing learners’ creativity, developing their self-awareness, and enabling them to connect to the wider world through visual expression. 

• BBC Bitesize: Art and Design
• British Museum
• National Gallery

• Royal Academy of Arts
• Tate
• Victoria and Albert Museum