Wicked Competition October 2025

This month children at Trotts Hill had the chance to enter an exciting competition - to design the black card for the upcoming film 'Wicked - For Good'. We were so impressed by the quality of the entries and all of them were sent off to be judged by the British Film Institute. Internally the Creative Crew judged the entries, and the winner was Millie P in Year 5. Well done to everyone who entered!

Curriculum Maps

Intent

Trotts Hill believes that art is an integral part of children’s education. Art has a significant and valuable role in providing an enriched curriculum to the pupils. The art curriculum develops children’s critical abilities and understanding of their own and others’ cultural heritages through studying a diverse range of artists. Children are engaged, inspired and challenged to use different skills to invent, experiment, create and criticise their own works of art.

Implementation

Children will develop their understanding of art and design with effective teaching, sequences of lessons and experiences both in school and between link schools. In Key Stage 2 children have the opportunity to meet real artists. Children have an opportunity to participate in art projects in their local community. Understanding of the visual elements of art and design (line, tone, texture, colour, pattern, shape, 3D form) will be developed by providing a curriculum which will enable children to reach their full potential. This is through cross curricular learning. We teach a skills-based art curriculum, which gives opportunities for children to express their creative imagination as well as practise and develop mastery in the key processes of art: drawing, painting, printing, textiles and sculpture. Each child has a sketch book to show their creative journey throughout each topic. The sketch books also give opportunity to show the progression of skills and coverage of different artists. Staff and governors meet termly to show case the different elements of learning and skills taught throughout the key stages.

Impact

Art contributes to children’s personal development in creativity, independence, judgement and self-reflection. Through use of sketch book children are able to clearly show their journey of learning and progression of skills learned in each year group. Each link to an artist or experience is integrated in their sequenced learning. Through the progression of skills, all children have a broad experience of art and design, and are able to improve their mastery of techniques, including drawing, painting and sculpture with a range of materials. The arts mark has recognised the broad and varied art curriculum in our school.