Art and Design play an important part in the life of Argyle Primary School. We believe that art education provides opportunities for children to be imaginative, creative and inventive. Art engages children and enables them to explore and express feelings in ways that are unique and particular to artistic activity.

To support all of our staff to teach art and design with confidence and to ensure an appropriate progression in skills, we have joined Access Art. Access Art launched its new primary curriculum in September 2022 with the following aim:

“We wanted to create an art curriculum which would help primary schools deliver a really exciting, rich and forward-thinking visual arts education, whilst at the same time giving non-specialist and often inexperienced teachers the support they need to feel confident and happy teaching art.”

The AccessArt Primary Curriculum is designed around the idea that art is far more than a series of technical skills. Our holistic curriculum nurtures creative thinking skills and helps ensure your pupils learn through art, as well as about art.

Broad, Rich, Contemporary & Diverse

It is our aim that by the time every child leaves primary school they can feel as if they have found an area of the visual art that is relevant and engaging to them -that might be through drawing, or making, or designing, or talking about art.

Pupils' final outcome is artwork of a very high quality which is displayed in a school gallery as well as around the classrooms. In addition to their class-based art lessons, pupils throughout the school take part in art workshops at a range of local and national galleries and art institutions. We have participated in several arts projects which link in with the local and global community and we have exhibited our work in a range of galleries and spaces around London including along the Euston Road, the October Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts, Swiss Cottage Gallery, SOAS, Trinity Square, Kings Cross Square and the Lauderdale Gallery.

Argyle's overview of art units can be viewed below in pdf format.