The visual arts curriculum comprises interrelated activities in making art and in looking at and responding to art. It presents a range of activities in perceiving, exploring, responding to and appreciating the visual world.

In St. Patrick’s BNS, we nurture these skills in our pupils and allow them to explore their creativity through many different media.

Our pupils also look at and respond to the work of particular artists at each class level. We believe that this opens their minds and allows them to further appreciate the world around them.

Our school is part of an education network with the National Gallery of Ireland and our pupils enjoy guided tours there each year. Click here to read about 3rd Class’ trip in February 2023.

Each month, we celebrate work from our own artists here in St. Patrick’s with our Artist of the Month feature, which you can see below.

Class Art Movement Artists
Junior Infants Pointillism George Seurat

Yayoi Kusama

Senior Infants Post-Impressionism Vincent Van Gogh

Paul Cezanne

1st Class Modern Art Wassily Kandinsky

Sonia Delaunay

2nd Class Expressionism Edvard Munch

Jack B Yeats

3rd Class Impressionism Claude Monet

Berthe Morisot

4th Class Pop-Art Andy Warhol

Keith Haring

5th Class Cubism Pablo Picasso

Norah McGuinness

6th Class Contemporary Jean-Michel Basquiat

Damien Hirst

Yayoi Kusama

Artist of the Month
September

Ryan S

4th Class

Ms Flanagan

October

November
December

January

February

March

April
May
June