Welcome to St Peter’s Art Curriculum Page

At St. Peter’s, we’re proud to introduce our inspiring new art curriculum, designed to foster high-quality visual arts teaching and learning. Developed by experienced specialists, our Access Art programme engages and challenges pupils while equipping staff and children with the skills to create, experiment, and express themselves through art, craft, and design.

As pupils progress, they deepen their understanding of artistic styles and techniques, becoming confident in drawing, painting, sculpture, and more. Our approach brings the National Curriculum to life, encouraging creativity, critical thinking, and a genuine appreciation of the arts.

 Introduction to Art and Design

Art, craft and design represent powerful forms of human creativity. A strong art education should inspire and challenge pupils, giving them the skills to explore, invent and create. As they progress, pupils develop critical thinking and a deeper understanding of how art reflects history and shapes culture.

So…   What does this look like at St Peter’s? 

What do our children say about Art?

“I am proud of my sunflowers and starry night picture.” Monira

“I enjoy art because it is a way of expressing yourself without talking, you can draw what you feel.” Esaam

“Van Gogh showed us light and dark colours, he used light colours when he was happy and dark colours when he was sad.” Mackenzy

“Art makes me feel joyful and it helps me to relieve my stress.” Hadi

“When I have completed my art work I feel proud because I have worked so hard on it and it is brilliant to stand back and enjoy the finished piece.” Jayden

In our Sketch Books you will see artwork inspired by a diverse range of artists as well as developing our own style by practising our techniques and skills taught. We try to reflect on our work within these books by sticking in post-it notes to express our thoughts and feelings about our own artwork or that of our peers.

Art in our school - 

Autumn 2025

Year Four

I had a peak into Year 4's sketchbooks and saw that they were writing notes about their artist Lara Carlin.

They looked closely at the artist's style, tones and form - they'll use this information to inspire their own pieces of Art with the theme of Storytelling through Drawing, I can't wait to see what they create at the end of their unit.

Year One

During week three of our Art lessons we created spiral art using the pastel crayons on black paper. I was so proud of the work the children created. We got extremely messy as we blended our pastel marks to change the tone of our pieces.

During week one of our new unit called Spirals the children were inspired by the artist Molly Hasland who used her body to create large scale art.  The children went outside and used gross motor movements to create their own spirals.