At St Michael’s CE primary school, we believe that teaching and learning in art is important because it stimulates creativity, imagination and inventiveness. The purpose of art education is to give pupils the skills, concepts and knowledge necessary for them to express responses to ideas and experiences in a visual or tactile form. It fires their imagination and is a fundamental means of personal expression.  

“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, Children’s Laureat. 

Art enables children to communicate what they see, feel and think through the use of colour, texture, form, pattern and different materials and processes. Children become involved in shaping their environments through art and design activities. 

Children explore ideas and meanings through the work of artists and designers. Art is not taught in isolation, although it retains its creative base and its skills and techniques.  Wherever appropriate, Art is linked to other areas of the curriculum and gives children the opportunities to develop specific art skills and reinforces skills already established.