Welcome Gomersal Primary School

You can keep up to date with the work created in the art room by following our Twitter account and Blog page.

Gomersal Primary school has an Art Studio and an Art Specialist Teacher, Mrs Barrett. Children in Key Stage Two visit the studio each week while Key Stage One and Early Years visit on a rolling timetable. Our studio is also used to support teachers from other schools and student teachers from various Universities and teacher training programmes.

Through art, craft and design we want to engage, inspire and challenge pupils by introducing them to a broad range of techniques, materials and artists, craftspeople and designers. We want to equip them with the knowledge and skills to experiment, explore, take risks, invent and create. It will enable them to be authentic and explore their own identity as well as being curious about respecting and connecting with others. Most importantly, we want them to foster a positive, life-long relationship with the subject and have fun.

We want our children to know that they are artists, craft makers and designers!

The roots of our curriculum will always focus on the knowledge and skills within our progression documents but we do link to other areas of the curriculum in meaningful, engaging and enriching ways. Our schemes of work are flexible in their content and outcome, to allow for creativity.

When considering the content of our art, craft and design curriculum we thought carefully about our locality and heritage. We have a range of significant artists who were born locally and these are referred to throughout our curriculum. 

For more information please see: 'How we use our locality and heritage' blog post.

 We collect visual evidence to show what art, craft and design looks like within our school and follow the learning journey of each pupil to show how they have grown throughout their time with us. This is an ongoing journey and is continually changing.

We have a range of examples of progression in this blog post.  

Developing textiles as part of our SDP and involvement with a Paul Hamlyn Foundation funded project.

During 2021-2022 we have been developing our textile curriculum with links to our local heritage and the innovative industries that are within our local area. Here is a blog post explaining the details.

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Here are some of the national projects our school has been involved with:

SkyArts asked us to be their host school during their Access all Arts week in 2022. We were involved in filming, workshops and testing resources.

The RSA visited our school to learn about our Arts Rich Curriculum.

This formed part of their research for the following document:

RSA - Arts Rich Schools

Our school took part in a research project by Prof Pat Thompson and Liam Maloy from Nottingham University

Read their findings here: RAPS Article

Our school was invited to speak in The House of Commons

Read our speech and see our presentation by clicking on the following link:

A Day in Parliament

Mrs Barrett was interviewed by Sarah Mumford from IVE:

IVE interview

TES article - How to use the Arts to teach social and emotional skills:

TES article

Our school features in an Access Art article about Art Rooms:

Access Art Link

The Big Draw interviewed Mrs Barrett about our use of Sketchbooks in school:

Sketchbook Interview