Kapow Primary Art & Design review by Natalie T
Date: 07.07.2022Excellent resource that supports staff and children. The teacher videos support less confident staff. ...
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Excellent resource that supports staff and children. The teacher videos support less confident staff. ...
READWell resourced, easy to follow. Ready to pick up and teach. It can however be a little prescriptive and places a ceiling on creativity. It’s essential that teachers add and amend the lessons to get maximum outcomes....
READBroad range of ideas to encourage children’s creativity and exploring mediums. Some of the activities they suggest do not flow well enough for me, I like to see a build up of skill to final piece and Kapow for me wasn’t hitting that....
READThe strengths are the layout and clarity if the resource. The weakness is that it is limited and if it does not fit your topic it is possibly not usable. ...
READMakes art fun for kids and teachers. Teachers who struggled before don’t now....
READHas all the lesson ideas provided, matched to the curriculum, with videos for pupils and teachers. Good for teachers who are useless with art. Weakness is I don''t often like the structure - the lessons don''t always build on each other...
READExcellent coverage and great for staff to access ...
READProgression and lessons are clearley explained and easy to navigate, it allows for coverage across the whole of Reception up to Year 6....
READThe content expands the vague national curriculum well which ensures we are teaching a range of skills....
READWell mapped out against national curriculum standards and a range of ideas - weaknesses are that some lessons and topics are quite boring for the children...
READSpiral curriculum makes it easy to track progress across year groups. Some units need to be delivered in a specific order so you don’t have total freedom...
READStrengths - Exposes children to a wide range of artists. Videos are great for subject knowledge.Weaknesses - Difficult to see progression through a unit as lessons don''t link so it does not seem to build on the previous session. ...
READFind that sometimes it expecting too much of the youngest children ...
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