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The pottery arts curriculum should enable the child to:
• Look at, enjoy and make a personal response to a range of familiar and unfamiliar objects and images in the environment, focusing on their visual attributes.
• Explore and begin to develop sensitivity to qualities of line, shape, color and tone, texture, pattern and rhythm, spatial organization and the three-dimensional quality of form.
Express ideas, feelings and experiences in visual form and with imagination, enjoyment and a sense of fulfillment.
• Experiment in spontaneous, imaginative and increasingly structured ways with a range of tools and materials, including clay, throwing, carving and molding tools and paints, inks, glazes, fabric and fiber and structure materials.
• Explore the expressive and design possibilities of the materials within a range of two and three-dimensional media, including clay, paint and colour, print, fabric and fibre.
• Apply skills and techniques, demonstrating increasing sensitivity to the visual elements in his/her art work.
• Look with curiosity and openness at the work of a wide range of artists and craftspeople.
• Explore atmosphere, content and impact in the work of artists, especially when they relate to his/her own work.
• Identify a variety of visual arts media and describe some of the creative processes involved.
• Develop an ability to identify and discuss what he/she considers the most important design elements of individual pieces, especially when they relate to work in hand.
• Discuss the preferred design elements in his/her work and in the work of classmates.
• Begin to appreciate the context in which great art and artifacts are created and the culture from which they grow.
• Respond to visual arts experiences in a variety of Imaginative ways.
• Use appropriate language in responding to visual arts experiences.
The aims of the pottery art curriculum are:
• To help the child develop sensitivity to the form, and to provide for aesthetic experience.
• To help the child express ideas, feelings and experiences in spatial forms.
• To enable the child to explore, experiment, imagine, design, invent and communicate with clay and different painting materials.
• To promote the child's understanding of and personal response to the creative processes involved in making two and three-dimensional art.
• To enable the child to develop the skills and techniques necessary for expression, inventiveness and individuality.
• To foster sensitivity towards and of the clay art.
• To provide opportunities for the child to enjoy and to appreciate the work of artists and craftspeople.
