Please check emails to see important information regarding core hours September 2024
Phone: 01229 463002 | Email: admin@grjs.cumbria.sch.uk
Please check emails to see important information regarding core hours September 2024
‘Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up!’ Pablo Picasso
Our children live in an ever-changing, rapidly advancing world where new knowledge and new skills need to be acquired, understood and mastered at a rate previously unheard of.
We aim to enable children to learn the full range of knowledge, skills and understanding in order to appreciate their world as well as recognising and embracing their role in becoming citizens who make a positive contribution to our society; now and in the future.
Our community and its environment help shape the way in which we structure learning opportunities. We balance the celebration of all positive aspects of our local context with the ability to look beyond the Furness Peninsula in order to understand and embrace the wider world.
We are totally committed to learning of the highest standard in academic, personal and social forms and have these aspirations for all children in our care.
Our Art curriculum is based on the National Curriculum aims and subject content and uses CUSP (Curriculum with Unity Schools Partnership) as a foundation for our planning. Our aim is to provide children with a high quality art and design curriculum that engages, inspires and challenges children; equipping them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, invent and create their own pieces of art, craft and design.
We want children to know how art and design reflects and shapes our history (and that of other places) and contributes to the culture, creativity, wealth and health of the nation. Throughout our lessons we look at the work of several great internationally famous artists from around the world. During Art Day, children are given the opportunity to work with many local artists. We are outwardly facing and enjoy participating in community art projects, as well as sharing Art Day with Y2 from Chapel Street Infants and Nursery School and completing a transition art project with Dowdales.
We strongly believe that encouraging and developing creativity in art and design enables children to demonstrate creativity, imagination, resilience and lateral thinking across the curriculum. It also helps provide tactile, hands-on and physical learning experiences for children in an increasingly digitalised world.
