Art teaching at Laceby Acres Primary Academy aims to give all children a strong understanding of their own uniqueness and creative abilities and to help build understanding of why art and artists are relevant to our history, our culture and contemporary society. Art is one way to improve creative and critical thinking skills whilst providing them with the knowledge to help them think artistically. Children will gain an understanding of a range of art techniques and processes and also an understanding of the implications of Art, from the past, today and in the future. The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture. (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
