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Aims:
• To help the child express ideas, feelings and experiences in visual and tactile forms
• To enable the child to have enjoyable and purposeful experiences of different art media and to have opportunities to
explore, experiment, imagine, design, invent and communicate with different art materials
• To enable the child to develop the skills and techniques necessary for expression, inventiveness and individuality
• To enable the child to experience the excitement and fulfilment of creativity and the achievement of potential
through art activities
A variety of concepts and skills development will be incorporated throughout the different strands i.e. an awareness of
line/shape/form/colour and tone/texture/pattern and rhythm/space. The end of each lesson will involve students looking
and responding to their own and to their peers work.
Methodologies: Talk and discussion, Active learning, Guided and discovery learning, Collaborative learning, Problem solving
Skills through content, Using the environment, Drawing Paint and colour, Print/Clay, Construction, Fabric and fibre, Looking
and responding, Use of ICT
Differentiation: Differentiation by support, Differentiation by task
Assessment: Teacher observation, Work samples, Pupil Profiles
Linkage and Integration: Maths: Pattern, shape SPHE: Self identity English: Oral Language, Response to text Geography:
Mapping, The Natural Environment Music: Listening and responding, composing-graphic scores History: Famous artists
Science: Texture Gaeilge: Na Dathanna