Art Curriculum
Built by subject experts to give every child a creative voice.
Art has the power to change how children see the world
When children engage with art, they develop a way of looking at the world that no other subject replicates. They learn to observe, to question, to express and to create. Delivering that experience consistently across a whole school, without a specialist in every classroom, is hard. That’s why we created a practical, carefully sequenced art and design curriculum built by subject experts and fully aligned to the art national curriculum, with the planning, activities, tools and resources teachers need to teach art and design with confidence, no matter their level of subject expertise.
What does great art and design teaching look like?
Children arrive at art lessons curious and excited, knowing that what they create will genuinely reflect their own ideas and developing skills. Your teachers plan and deliver lessons with confidence, supported by clear guidance, tried and tested activities and everything they need already in place. And your art lead has a clear view of progression and coverage across the whole school, from Nursery to Year 6, and can lead the subject with real credibility. This is the reality for schools using the Cornerstones art and design curriculum.
See how Cornerstones could transform your art and design curriculum
Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to strengthen what you already have, a curriculum conversation is the best place to start.
We have been able to offer the children a higher standard of curriculum than we might have developed. We would never have considered the range of artists that the children get to know about in Art.
James Foxwell
Our digital platform gives your art lead the tools to lead with confidence
Maestro is our digital curriculum platform that brings your art and design curriculum to life as a managed, trackable system. Your art lead can see exactly what is being taught in every year group, monitor progression across the school, identify gaps and adapt projects to suit your context and community.
Every lesson is live and connected, so teachers always work from the same coherent curriculum. And because everything sits in one place, your art lead can walk into any curriculum conversation with the evidence they need.
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What senior leaders say
The depth of understanding about colour mixing and theory was amazing, we had such beautiful artwork and displays that I've ever seen before.
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Julia Merritt
The James Rizzi project, never in a million years would we have chosen that artist if we sat down as a team of staff to create an art project. The quality of work the children produced was fantastic and they really got into the project and enjoyed it. Something that we wouldn't have if we started with a blank sheet of paper.
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James Foxwell
Give your children an art and design curriculum to be proud of
Whether you're building your art and design curriculum from scratch or looking to strengthen what you already have, a curriculum conversation is the best place to start.