The AccessArt curriculum for, consisting of 36 pathways for Years 1 to 6, continues to inspire and enable high quality visual arts learning, to nurture creative thinking skills and help ensure our children learn through art, as well as about art.

The areas we will cover are: Drawing & Sketchbooks; Print, Colour, Collage; Working in Three Dimensions; Paint, Surface, Texture and Collaboration & Community.

The  AccessArt Curriculum helps build knowledge and understanding in pupils as to some of the ways art is relevant to all our lives. By combining technical skills with contextual and conceptual understanding, the curriculum helps ensure every pupil feels entitled to embrace their own creativity as something which is important to them, and something which is valued by society. 

We provide the children with a wide variety of materials from the outset, which helps them grow in confidence and explore processes, which in turn can be applied to concepts.

We aim to focus less on a prescribed outcome and more on the creative journey to shape confident, independent artists, who can articulate and value their own creative journeys.

We aim to balance traditional skills with experimental work; small scale work with large, quiet, reflective study with active, dynamic work; individual and group work; 2D work with 3D and the study of historical artists with contemporary.

We want our children to engage in creative activities, both personally and in the wider community, so that they can grow to appreciate and value the importance of art.

In recent years, we've celebrated creativity and embraced whole-school activities: we've participated in The National Gallery's 'Take One Picture' project, which has culminated in a summer exhibition; we’ve seen our creative children blossom during an 'Arts Week' making sketchbooks and performing in talent shows; we've welcomed art educators and authors into the school and travelled into London to visit Tate Britain and The National Gallery to take part in workshops.