Pupil Voice

Here is what our children think of Art and Design at Doveridge Primary School:

1.Do you enjoy art?

Reception: “Yes!!!”

Year 1:” Yeah!”

Year 1: “Yes!”

Year 2:” Yes!”

Year 3: “Yes!”

Year 4: “Yes!”

Year 4: “Yes!”

Year 5: “Yes!”

Year 6: “Yes!”

2.How do you feel in art lessons?

Reception: “Really happy!”

Year 1: “Happy”

Year 1: “Enjoyment and excited”

Year 2: “Enjoyment, happy and sometimes calm.”

Year 3: “Calm, relaxed and happy”

Year 4: “Calm and happy. It’s my favourite hobby. It also makes me feel self-controlled as well. In art there’s no right or wrong. You can express your emotions.”

Year 4: “Creative! I love it so much it makes me feel happy”

Year 5: “Creative. I feel much calmer!”

Year 6: “Really really happy! It’s a good way to express yourself and how you feel. It makes me feel free and creative.”

3. What art have you been doing recently?

Reception: “Yes, sculptures. I thought you meant every day.”

Year 1:” Sculptures”

Year 1: “Oh yes axles and wheels.”

Year 2: ”Axles and wheels out of cardboard.”

Year 3: “Sculptures.”

Year 4: “Sculpture. At home I have been learning about rainbow eye projects.”

Year 4: “Aquatic sculptures.”

Year 5: “Aquatic sculptures.”

Year 6: “Aquatic sculptures.”

4. What skills have you learnt during this art technique?

Reception: “Carving and squeezing.”

Year 1:” Yes carving. I love carving. I’ve even been carving in the sand pit.”

Year 1: “We cut slots to fit on the axel.”

Year 2:” We used plasticine to fit the wheels and we have been cutting card.”

Year 3: “Different ways to stick things together”

Year 4: “I’ve learnt how to put texture onto my artwork. “

(Both Yr3 and 4 above went on to discuss at great lengths different skills they have learnt for different purposes)

Year 4: “To use a hot glue gun and to mix paint. I also persevered because I didn’t mix the correct colour straight away.”

Year 5:

Year 6: “I’ve learnt how to use recyclable materials that we wouldn’t usually use. We have also learnt to use wire and tissue paper. I have definitely become more resilient too.”

5. Are there any artists/designers/sculptors you have learnt about?

Reception: “I can remember those block sculptures.”

Year 1:” We saw that sand dragon didn’t we?”

Year 1:

Year 2: (Couldn’t remember name but described a piece of artwork)

Year 3:

Year 4: “Henri Matisse and Picasso.

Year 4, 5& 6: “Andy Warhol. We looked at pop art when developing our digital skills on the I pad. We changed the vibrancy, tones and colours.”

6. How does your teacher help you in your lesson?

Reception: “You show us what to do.”

Year 1:”When I say I give up, you say, you can do this!”

Year 1: “She helped us to make the right size holes”

Year 2: “If we can’t cut things out she will do it for us and she shows us what to do.”

Year 3: “He explains and then leaves us to get on with it as we are independent.”

Year 4: “He gives us a cold task then he gives us information to get us to the stage we need. If we were just told exactly what to do we wouldn’t make mistakes. We should be able to figure out how to solve problems ourselves.”

Year 4: “If we struggle she will help us.”

Year 5:

Year 6: “She’s good at art! I’m a bit of a perfectionist and if I can’t do it right she gives me tips on how to make it look like my vision.”

7. Are you always successful?

Reception: “Yes.”

Year 1:” Yes. When drawing and painting I nearly give up but I think to myself -don’t give up!”

Year 1: “Yes because I make things at home too.”

Year 2:” Kind of..sometimes. I find sticking and cutting hard.”

Year 3 and 4: “No, because some art isn’t my strongest.”

Year 4: “No, I don’t have the most positive mind-set though.”

Year 5: “No.”

Year 6: “No but I am a perfectionist though. I can get quite angry with myself.”

8. If you are successful, how do you know?

Reception: “You tell us”

Year 1:” You got what you wanted in the end.”

Year 1: “I just know.”

Year 2:” Because the teacher said it’s good.”

Year 3: “If I’ve had fun, I’ve already been successful.”

Year 4: “You would think good of yourself and done something to be proud of. Our teacher always says “Wow that’s amazing!” Because there’s no right or wrong in art. We all feel proud of our work.”

Year 4:”Getting it how you want it/even better.”

Year 5:

Year 6: “Work might be shared on display.”

9. What will you learn next?

Reception and Yr1: “To add cardboard”

Year 1&2: “I think we are carrying on with it to get them finished.”

Year 3 & 4: “Not sure yet as we have finished our sculptures.”

Year 4, 5 &6: “Not sure what we are doing next.”

10. Do you get chance to share your artwork with your class/parents/community? How?

Reception: “Yes we do an art gallery in class and take pictures to put on Seesaw.”

Year 1:” Yes we do. We can take them home at the end of the day too.”

Year 1 and 2 “Not really, because after art we go out to play. After our work has been in the class for a while we can take it home. Sometimes we take a photo and put them on Seesaw.”

Year 3: Yes, we add photos on Seesaw and at parents evening sometimes they can see them.”

Year 4: “Sometimes we get to look at each other’s when it’s on the wall.

Year 4: “They get displayed in the class then we can take them home after.”

Year 5:

Year 6: “We can put them on Seesaw and on our class display. We also enter competitions like Abode which shows other people what we can do too.”

11. Is there something you would really like to learn in art?

Reception: “Maybe we could do some art together.”

Year 1:

Year 1: “More art.”

Year 2: ”More painting.”

Year 3: “Different tones of colours make you feel different.”

Year 4: “Explore different colours as they are very interesting. I would also like to learn how to sculpt with clay and how to design and sew dresses like fashion design.”

Year 4: “Wood work.”

Year 5:

Year 6:

12. How could your teachers improve your art learning?

Reception: “Maybe we could do science mixed with art. Maybe build a volcano and learn about volcanoes as well.”

Year 1:” Do more of what we want each day and adding onto what we did before or making it better.”

Year 1: “By adding more art into our lessons.”

Year 2: ”Not so loud.”

Year 3: “Make it harder, more detailed and challenging.”

Year 4: “Maybe smaller groups working with teacher.”

Year 4, 5 and 6: “We could get people in who are experienced in areas our teachers don’t feel so confident in. “

Any Additional comments:

Yr2: “I like how we do different types of art because we get to learn different things.”

Yr 4 : “We are involved in our art learning. Our teacher says what type of art we are learning and we decide what to make.”

Yr 6: “Yes, we are given a cold task where we complete a mind map thinking of what we could do.”

Yr 4: “When doing lots of different types of art it expands the creative part of your mind. It’s exciting to do different types of art work.”

Yr 6: “I like how we learn different types of art as it helps us to develop a variety of skills. We may not be great at all but we are becoming creative.”