Art at Broom Valley

At Broom Valley, our Art curriculum is designed to enable children to know more, remember more and do more. The content is sequenced to ensure children build on skills from previous year groups, while preparing them for what comes next. We place great importance on the work of artists, designers and architects and take inspiration from those studied in each year’s topic. Our curriculum provides all of our children, from EYFS to Year 6, with opportunities to practice and develop skills and techniques that build up to a final piece (drawing, painting, sculpture) which enables them to showcase the knowledge and skills that they have acquired. They will evaluate their art throughout the teaching sequence and develop constructive critique.

Progression Map

What words do our children use to describe our Art curriculum? 

  •  “Challenging – learning how to do lips, eyes and faces.” EV Year 5
  • “Skill(ful) – learn lots of techniques to draw.” AH Year 5
  • “Interesting, stimulating and very fun.” AZ Year 2
  • “Unique, abstract, edges not lines, variety, depth, technique.” ZK Year 6
  • “The idea or inspiration helps us to know what a good one is. Sometimes we improve it in the next lesson or the next day.” SH Year 4
  • “When I make art, it makes me feel happy.” CV Year 3
  • “I want to be an artist when I’m older or an art teacher. It makes me feel proud.” AA Year 3
In Early Years, the children are learning “All About Me” through sketching, colour mixing and Picasso-inspired self-portraits! They have begun to experiment with line, drawing from observation, and will be exploring the work of Van Gogh and Picasso as inspiration.
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Year 1 have been learning how they can create tone within their artwork. We have been using watercolours and considering the water-to-paint ratio. We have created a colour wash and we have painted the drawings of our sunflowers.
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Year 1 have progressed to using the media of clay. We have implemented a variety of techniques in our learning. Including rolling, pinching and scoring the clay with tools. So had so much fun.
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Year 5 have been studying artists and focused on Lucien Freud, who is famous for his sketched portraits. We have been practicing how to sketch facial features. and are really pleased with how our eyes have turned out!
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Y5 are continuing with their fantastic art work. Sketching skills included using different pencil pressures, different pencils for lighting effects plus smudging & subtraction. We've been studying the artist, Frida Kahlo. A child sketched this amazing portrait of her.
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Year 6 have begun the art topic by refreshing a wide range of sketching skills ready for their artwork.
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In Year 6, we asked some of our teachers to move their cars onto the playground, for us to draw. We're really proud of the start that we're making with this topic.
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Year 6 have been immersing themselves in the world of art, exploring the inspiring work of Antony Gormley, David Briggs, and Michael Lang. They've designed vehicle sketches, created dynamic 3D paintings and now planning their own expressive sculptures.
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