Art
At Burford, our children are encouraged to think and work like Artists and Art Critics. They learn that art is subjective and that we must respect differing opinions. Children are encouraged to create art which may help them to express their thoughts and feelings. Children are encouraged to explore their own creativity using a wide variety of materials, tools and techniques. We enlighten children about how they can express their own identity through colour, shape, texture and pattern. They learn that art is intentional and powerful, and that it can be a persuasive way of communicating with others
We make strong links to our oracy curriculum, providing the children with sophisticated vocabulary with which to describe that they are seeing and sentence stems to encourage them to formulate their thinking verbally.
Children explore the biographies of artists both past and present, and from different continents, in the hope that they may become role models and dismantle cultural prejudice.