Southam St James CofE Academy

Let your light shine

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‘Let your light shine’ Our vision for our community is for everyone, children and adults, to flourish and shine brightly as the best and fullest version of their unique selves. We aim high and do not let circumstances limit us. ‘I will shine. We will shine as, together, we grow in wisdom, learning from the teachings of Jesus, to serve our community.’ Our art curriculum has been designed to allow children to let their light shine in different ways.

 

Studying Art provides children with a wealth of opportunities to notice, imagine, create, and communicate. When we produce a piece of artwork, we experiment with ideas, representing our thoughts in images, sculptures, sounds, etc. that provoke an emotional response in others.

 

In Art we learn to interpret images and installations, noticing and questioning details in design and building connections between them. To create our own work, we must observe carefully, taking time to identify line, shape and form, colour, light and shadow, and texture. We select materials with which to represent our ideas and experiment with different techniques, evaluating outcomes critically so that we can develop our ideas further. Revisiting and practising skills provide opportunities to evaluate and refine ideas. This process of repeated reflection and revision builds resilience and, with it, the confidence to take risks and innovate.

 

‘It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create’.- J. M. W. Turner

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